Post Oak
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I separated a few heifers off yesterday to wean off of their mommas. How long would y'all keep them separate from their mothers before putting them back with them? I was thinking 30 days.
dun":1eqptrg4 said:45 days has been or standard. Only ever had one go back to sucking and she didn;t do that till she was 6 months bred
I've never noticed the family groupings. I had sort of expected to because dairy goats are very much that way. And that's with the youngsters only sucked their mother maybe once in their life at birth.Stocker Steve":3362dw5v said:You see some interesting things when you run mother/daughters/granddaughters together. I have seem some that graze together, some that mother calves together, and yes - - some that suck. The suckers are unusual, I think less than 1%.
dun":2yao6kzw said:I've never noticed the family groupings. I had sort of expected to because dairy goats are very much that way. And that's with the youngsters only sucked their mother maybe once in their life at birth.Stocker Steve":2yao6kzw said:You see some interesting things when you run mother/daughters/granddaughters together. I have seem some that graze together, some that mother calves together, and yes - - some that suck. The suckers are unusual, I think less than 1%.
We have a lot of family groupings that hang together but quite possibly because I retain a lot of heifers specifically because of their lineage. One year I had 3 mother/daughter pairs calve on the same day not 150 yards apart. That said, I don't put my retained heifers back with their mamas until they're already in their 2nd trimester (earliest) but generally their 3rd. Never had one try to suck. That I know of. Knock wood!Stocker Steve":2emfa7ur said:dun":2emfa7ur said:I've never noticed the family groupings. I had sort of expected to because dairy goats are very much that way. And that's with the youngsters only sucked their mother maybe once in their life at birth.Stocker Steve":2emfa7ur said:You see some interesting things when you run mother/daughters/granddaughters together. I have seem some that graze together, some that mother calves together, and yes - - some that suck. The suckers are unusual, I think less than 1%.
It is a minority of cows, but some do it. Had a cow die on me over night and in the morning the yearling heifer was mothering up her brother next to the cows carcass...
TCRanch":3eo4vaog said:We have a lot of family groupings that hang together but quite possibly because I retain a lot of heifers specifically because of their lineage. One year I had 3 mother/daughter pairs calve on the same day not 150 yards apart. That said, I don't put my retained heifers back with their mamas until they're already in their 2nd trimester (earliest) but generally their 3rd. Never had one try to suck. That I know of. Knock wood!Stocker Steve":3eo4vaog said:dun":3eo4vaog said:I've never noticed the family groupings. I had sort of expected to because dairy goats are very much that way. And that's with the youngsters only sucked their mother maybe once in their life at birth.
It is a minority of cows, but some do it. Had a cow die on me over night and in the morning the yearling heifer was mothering up her brother next to the cows carcass...