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what happened to the calving ease?
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<blockquote data-quote="hillsdown" data-source="post: 721849" data-attributes="member: 5106"><p>Dun a good cow with a healthy nutrition and mineral program can easily calve a 104 pound calf even if she is a frame 5 or 6, I have seen it. I guess I expect too much from my gals ,they are supposed to calve unassisted unless it is the second twin or a very strange malpresentation. They should be calving out 70-100 lb calves on their own and the calves should be running as soon as they hit the ground they also should ween a 650-750 lb calve at 205, without creep, even in a drought, and maintain their BSC. </p><p></p><p>You can tell alot of you palp. a heifer at 15 months whether or not she will have calving problems..</p><p></p><p>Now I may just have jinxed myself with my season in a couple of weeks but after culling so hard my expectations are even greater this year..</p><p></p><p>If the only way I had live calves unassisted were if they weighed 50lbs I would be out of business; as I could never ever sell a bull from that kind of pedigree or more importantly calving records the oldtimers here would call BS on me and move onto the next breeder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillsdown, post: 721849, member: 5106"] Dun a good cow with a healthy nutrition and mineral program can easily calve a 104 pound calf even if she is a frame 5 or 6, I have seen it. I guess I expect too much from my gals ,they are supposed to calve unassisted unless it is the second twin or a very strange malpresentation. They should be calving out 70-100 lb calves on their own and the calves should be running as soon as they hit the ground they also should ween a 650-750 lb calve at 205, without creep, even in a drought, and maintain their BSC. You can tell alot of you palp. a heifer at 15 months whether or not she will have calving problems.. Now I may just have jinxed myself with my season in a couple of weeks but after culling so hard my expectations are even greater this year.. If the only way I had live calves unassisted were if they weighed 50lbs I would be out of business; as I could never ever sell a bull from that kind of pedigree or more importantly calving records the oldtimers here would call BS on me and move onto the next breeder. [/QUOTE]
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