Cattle Rack Rancher
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I remember dun posting awhile back about the look. Now I can't tell you what the look is but I somehow can sense if a cow has it or not. I'm getting rid of a few yearlings that I've decided not to keep over the winter. I've got one heifer that is just a little long in the leg for what I want. The other heifer doesn't have 'the look'. I can run her up beside the other heifers and she is essentially the same size and shape as the rest of them. She's got a fairly square hip, and seems to do real well on grass as she's nice and plump. She is really quiet and has a better temperament than a couple that I am keeping. Yet something in my cattleman's instinct tells me that she's going to give me problems at some point. The last time I kept a heifer that didn't have 'the look', I ended up paying for a C-Section and then that heifer rejected the calf and I ended up bottle feeding it for about a month and then selling it to a guy that had lost one off of a good cow. I couldn't tell you what was wrong with her either. She was about the same size and shape as the other 2 heifers i kept that year and yet all winter, and right up until calving my instinct told me that i was going to have problems with her. I think that its just weird that I can see that there is something wrong but I don't know on a concious level what it is. Anybody else have intuition like that?