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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Banks" data-source="post: 632882" data-attributes="member: 2328"><p>I've own cattle for about 20 years, I consider myself well informed and very intense on my mangement style. I know that this is a subjective statement, so lets agree that, I know the basics and follow them to the letter.</p><p>Since 2002 my cattle numbers have averaged around 14 head ( brood cows ). I'm very disappointed that I have lost 16 calves in that lenght of time!! (Lost meaning didn't breed, aborted, still born, dead after a few days, mostily the latter 3 ). Is this acceptable?</p><p>These animals or vac., wormed, excellent minerals and feed (all the time), controlled breeding ( 60 days), usually a body score of 6-6.5, may drop to a 5.5 after calving, but quickily returns to a 6-6.5 due to the amount and quality of feed they get. These cattle are between first calf heifers and 9 years of age, the mean average is like 4 years!</p><p>Again I know there is a lot of unknowns/questions that you would like to have, but if you could/would try to give me some insight on this, it would be appreciated. </p><p>I thinking about getting out of the cow/calf and going to stockers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Banks, post: 632882, member: 2328"] I've own cattle for about 20 years, I consider myself well informed and very intense on my mangement style. I know that this is a subjective statement, so lets agree that, I know the basics and follow them to the letter. Since 2002 my cattle numbers have averaged around 14 head ( brood cows ). I'm very disappointed that I have lost 16 calves in that lenght of time!! (Lost meaning didn't breed, aborted, still born, dead after a few days, mostily the latter 3 ). Is this acceptable? These animals or vac., wormed, excellent minerals and feed (all the time), controlled breeding ( 60 days), usually a body score of 6-6.5, may drop to a 5.5 after calving, but quickily returns to a 6-6.5 due to the amount and quality of feed they get. These cattle are between first calf heifers and 9 years of age, the mean average is like 4 years! Again I know there is a lot of unknowns/questions that you would like to have, but if you could/would try to give me some insight on this, it would be appreciated. I thinking about getting out of the cow/calf and going to stockers. [/QUOTE]
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