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Wean weight, heifers vs. steers?
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<blockquote data-quote="TCRanch" data-source="post: 1467605" data-attributes="member: 24027"><p>The majority of the 2016 steers were banded day 1 or 2. Only half of the 2017 steers were banded at birth, the rest were castrated when they were worked at appx 3 months. </p><p></p><p>I'd love to find an easy explanation in my records - except I generally don't track the weight. I do weigh calves from the first calf heifers and although fairly accurate, definitely not exact because I use the Birthweight Hoofometer Tape (seriously, it's a thing). I'm just going by the invoices from the sale barn, using the average weight recorded. Also not reflective of all my calves because we do sell a lot of them private treaty and quite often I retain all the heifers, keep my faves and sell the rest as bred.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TCRanch, post: 1467605, member: 24027"] The majority of the 2016 steers were banded day 1 or 2. Only half of the 2017 steers were banded at birth, the rest were castrated when they were worked at appx 3 months. I'd love to find an easy explanation in my records - except I generally don't track the weight. I do weigh calves from the first calf heifers and although fairly accurate, definitely not exact because I use the Birthweight Hoofometer Tape (seriously, it's a thing). I'm just going by the invoices from the sale barn, using the average weight recorded. Also not reflective of all my calves because we do sell a lot of them private treaty and quite often I retain all the heifers, keep my faves and sell the rest as bred. [/QUOTE]
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