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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 71675" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Of the two closest dairys, one feeds the snot out of his heifers with corn silage and grain, heifers calve at 1200-1300 lbs, he only has to generally pull twins. The other feeds his heifers as if they're already in the milk string. He had to pull almost every calf from his new(now gone) bull, cows and heifers. That's the way he's alwasy fed and only pulls a couple of calves a year. Strange that it's alwasy the ones that he had to pull as heifers and still has to pull now that they're cows.</p><p>In the desert the cows that we drylotted where fed free choice alfalfa but no grain. The calved fat and the only one I had to pull was a bought 900 lb heifer that that had been bred to a young (so that the calf would be small) Charolais. Lost the heifer, alwasy hated that calf, was glad when he went down th e road. I can only directly speak from what I've seen and whats worked for us.</p><p>I used to have a bunch of files on calf growth during gestation and related, unfortunetly it all went away in the crash of 2004.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 71675, member: 34"] Of the two closest dairys, one feeds the snot out of his heifers with corn silage and grain, heifers calve at 1200-1300 lbs, he only has to generally pull twins. The other feeds his heifers as if they're already in the milk string. He had to pull almost every calf from his new(now gone) bull, cows and heifers. That's the way he's alwasy fed and only pulls a couple of calves a year. Strange that it's alwasy the ones that he had to pull as heifers and still has to pull now that they're cows. In the desert the cows that we drylotted where fed free choice alfalfa but no grain. The calved fat and the only one I had to pull was a bought 900 lb heifer that that had been bred to a young (so that the calf would be small) Charolais. Lost the heifer, alwasy hated that calf, was glad when he went down th e road. I can only directly speak from what I've seen and whats worked for us. I used to have a bunch of files on calf growth during gestation and related, unfortunetly it all went away in the crash of 2004. dun [/QUOTE]
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