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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1151098" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>Yeah we didn't have to push the cow on feed that much either, in fact the best looking pair I took 1 year was a 7 year old cow with a nice early March bull calf. She was in great shape for a 7 year old cow, showed her at 2 shows and 1 judge was completely shocked when I told her how old the cow was because she thought she looked much younger. I ought to dig back through some old photos and see if I can find a picture.</p><p></p><p>As for breeding, we already would have 3 or 4 yearling heifers we'd take to shows all summer that we would AI so you can imagine how easy it was to detect heat with the cow with those heifers riding her like crazy when she comes in heat. We never had problems getting the cows bred back especially since they were getting a little extra feed I just think it was a good excuse for dad to use to try and talk us out of showing a cow/calf pair. Working with the pair was never an issue, brother and I already had the work ethic instilled in us as we'd start to halter break the yearling heifers in January so by the time the first show in June came we had them broke so well from repetition of being worked with. If it was a March calf we probably were working with it by May if I can recall and the cow was already broke so wasn't much work to do there other than a little feed and hopefully get some hair to groom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1151098, member: 20580"] Yeah we didn't have to push the cow on feed that much either, in fact the best looking pair I took 1 year was a 7 year old cow with a nice early March bull calf. She was in great shape for a 7 year old cow, showed her at 2 shows and 1 judge was completely shocked when I told her how old the cow was because she thought she looked much younger. I ought to dig back through some old photos and see if I can find a picture. As for breeding, we already would have 3 or 4 yearling heifers we'd take to shows all summer that we would AI so you can imagine how easy it was to detect heat with the cow with those heifers riding her like crazy when she comes in heat. We never had problems getting the cows bred back especially since they were getting a little extra feed I just think it was a good excuse for dad to use to try and talk us out of showing a cow/calf pair. Working with the pair was never an issue, brother and I already had the work ethic instilled in us as we'd start to halter break the yearling heifers in January so by the time the first show in June came we had them broke so well from repetition of being worked with. If it was a March calf we probably were working with it by May if I can recall and the cow was already broke so wasn't much work to do there other than a little feed and hopefully get some hair to groom. [/QUOTE]
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