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Some pictures - dial-up beware - 08/19/07
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<blockquote data-quote="UG" data-source="post: 424577" data-attributes="member: 714"><p>Aaron,</p><p></p><p>You bring up a good point about having to cull more young cows when you have your heifers calving at 24 months of age. </p><p></p><p>We have heifers calve for the first time at 2 years of age so I don't know if we'd be further ahead to hold them for an extra 6 months. We had a couple heifers born in the fall of '05 that we are holding back to calve for the first time in the spring of '08 since we are no longer calving any cows in the fall. Though it is way too small of a sample to determine if there is any benefit to holding heifers another 6 months, I'll be curious to see how long these two girls stay in the herd. </p><p></p><p>It would be interesting to see MARC or a university do a research study on the long term financial results of calving the first time at 24, 30, and 36 months of age. Unfortunately the costs and time commitment to such a program would be huge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UG, post: 424577, member: 714"] Aaron, You bring up a good point about having to cull more young cows when you have your heifers calving at 24 months of age. We have heifers calve for the first time at 2 years of age so I don't know if we'd be further ahead to hold them for an extra 6 months. We had a couple heifers born in the fall of '05 that we are holding back to calve for the first time in the spring of '08 since we are no longer calving any cows in the fall. Though it is way too small of a sample to determine if there is any benefit to holding heifers another 6 months, I'll be curious to see how long these two girls stay in the herd. It would be interesting to see MARC or a university do a research study on the long term financial results of calving the first time at 24, 30, and 36 months of age. Unfortunately the costs and time commitment to such a program would be huge. [/QUOTE]
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