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Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1803044" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I don't know as I have a few that had "oops" babies at less than 20-22 months... but that is too young... like a 13-14 yr old girl having a baby.... I like 'em to calve around 27-30 months... most would say that is "old" and wasting time... but we don't cull many first calf heifers and we don't pull calves from our own homebred heifers and they mostly all drop a calf and take right good care of it and make milk and breed back. Nearly all our problems come from bought animals... not knowing the background, and taking a chance on them making some money.... </p><p>The "oops" heifers that calve young get held back to grow some more before they get rebred... with a longer "dry period" so they can do a little "catch up" but most never get as big as the ones that don't get bred too young. </p><p>If you feed more, then breeding younger probably works... but we don't do alot of supplemental feeding so they just grow a little slower... and it works fine for us most of the time. I prefer to breed them after 17-18 months... and I really prefer to calve heifers in the spring... and we calve them the same time or AFTER the cows, when the weather is warmer.... </p><p>BUT that is just what works for ME.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1803044, member: 25884"] I don't know as I have a few that had "oops" babies at less than 20-22 months... but that is too young... like a 13-14 yr old girl having a baby.... I like 'em to calve around 27-30 months... most would say that is "old" and wasting time... but we don't cull many first calf heifers and we don't pull calves from our own homebred heifers and they mostly all drop a calf and take right good care of it and make milk and breed back. Nearly all our problems come from bought animals... not knowing the background, and taking a chance on them making some money.... The "oops" heifers that calve young get held back to grow some more before they get rebred... with a longer "dry period" so they can do a little "catch up" but most never get as big as the ones that don't get bred too young. If you feed more, then breeding younger probably works... but we don't do alot of supplemental feeding so they just grow a little slower... and it works fine for us most of the time. I prefer to breed them after 17-18 months... and I really prefer to calve heifers in the spring... and we calve them the same time or AFTER the cows, when the weather is warmer.... BUT that is just what works for ME. [/QUOTE]
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