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<blockquote data-quote="Rookie Rancher" data-source="post: 518885" data-attributes="member: 7153"><p>Thanks everyone for the input. To answer your questions... These heifers have been nowhere near a bull for the last 7 months. They were riding eachother in the fall and going into winter. I havn't seen any of it since probably december, though I am now associated with food so whenever they see my truck they drop what ever they're doing to come eat. I can't even sneak up them to watch them. We havn't tried to AI any of them yet because we havn't been able to detect heat yet. The detectors are white tubes with a red dye tube inside. They mark by pressure not scratching and seem pretty hard to miss if one changes. The mineral i've been putting out is the one everyone around here buys from the local feed store. I did notice that mineral consumption dropped since I started putting out the protein tubs in Nov. The AI man looked at the herd a month before and said that they looked ready to him. I'm going to try and take some pictures of their condition to see what you guys think. They aren't show calves, but they sure seem big enough to me. I double checked the calendar and I was off. We gave them the shots and none showed signs of heat for 2 weeks. I've had them on the feed ration for about a week now and just last night one showed heat on the heat detector (17 days after the lut). About the lut bottle, the same one worked on the neighbors heifers. Consensus seems to be that there is a nutritional problem. Would this be solved by having the hay tested and supplementing accordingly? I thought I would be covered with the protein tubs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rookie Rancher, post: 518885, member: 7153"] Thanks everyone for the input. To answer your questions... These heifers have been nowhere near a bull for the last 7 months. They were riding eachother in the fall and going into winter. I havn't seen any of it since probably december, though I am now associated with food so whenever they see my truck they drop what ever they're doing to come eat. I can't even sneak up them to watch them. We havn't tried to AI any of them yet because we havn't been able to detect heat yet. The detectors are white tubes with a red dye tube inside. They mark by pressure not scratching and seem pretty hard to miss if one changes. The mineral i've been putting out is the one everyone around here buys from the local feed store. I did notice that mineral consumption dropped since I started putting out the protein tubs in Nov. The AI man looked at the herd a month before and said that they looked ready to him. I'm going to try and take some pictures of their condition to see what you guys think. They aren't show calves, but they sure seem big enough to me. I double checked the calendar and I was off. We gave them the shots and none showed signs of heat for 2 weeks. I've had them on the feed ration for about a week now and just last night one showed heat on the heat detector (17 days after the lut). About the lut bottle, the same one worked on the neighbors heifers. Consensus seems to be that there is a nutritional problem. Would this be solved by having the hay tested and supplementing accordingly? I thought I would be covered with the protein tubs? [/QUOTE]
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