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Shortening Calving Season
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<blockquote data-quote="Katpau" data-source="post: 1622670" data-attributes="member: 9933"><p>You won't regret shortening your calving season. Unless you have no place to keep bulls, I can think of no real disadvantages. Pull the bulls after 60 days and preg check about 45 days later. Sell the opens. In a few years, there will be very few opens and from then on you'll have a much more fertile herd. Calving and the stresses that go with it will be over in about 60 days (often in just 45 days) and you will have 300 days where you don't need to wonder if that heifer or cow might calve and need help today. When it's time to sell, they'll all be ready about the same time and you should get a better price because of the higher numbers and uniformity. You won't be running to the sale barn multiple times with different age calves. I won't keep a cow that can't get pregnant and calve every year within a couple months of the year before. This business is tough enough without feeding a cow that only calves every 18 months. I either sell a calf out of the cow every year or the cow is sold to replace that income.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Katpau, post: 1622670, member: 9933"] You won't regret shortening your calving season. Unless you have no place to keep bulls, I can think of no real disadvantages. Pull the bulls after 60 days and preg check about 45 days later. Sell the opens. In a few years, there will be very few opens and from then on you'll have a much more fertile herd. Calving and the stresses that go with it will be over in about 60 days (often in just 45 days) and you will have 300 days where you don't need to wonder if that heifer or cow might calve and need help today. When it's time to sell, they'll all be ready about the same time and you should get a better price because of the higher numbers and uniformity. You won't be running to the sale barn multiple times with different age calves. I won't keep a cow that can't get pregnant and calve every year within a couple months of the year before. This business is tough enough without feeding a cow that only calves every 18 months. I either sell a calf out of the cow every year or the cow is sold to replace that income. [/QUOTE]
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