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<blockquote data-quote="DOC HARRIS" data-source="post: 512968" data-attributes="member: 1683"><p>JHH-</p><p></p><p>There may be several things that you did wrong. On the other hand, perhaps you did nothing at all wrong!</p><p></p><p>It could be, that in your zeal to do everything RIGHT, you could have over-fed your heifers, you could have used a bull with a BW rating that was high - natural for him, but resulting in large calves which your heifers, fortunately, could tolerate. What is the average BW EPD of your heifers? If their EPD's dictate large calves - you are going to have at least some large calves. You should be like "Perry Mason", - and investigate every detail and possibility. Then act accordingly to rectify the potential problem, if, in fact, there is a problem. This is one reason that the current trend is to attempt to lower the size of our national cow herd to reasonable and sensible weights - around 1200 - 1300 pounds after the third calf. Breeders are going out of reason in their fervor to get larger and larger animals, because as <em>they</em> say, ". . . .after all, we ARE selling pounds, arent we??" Maybe so, but we are also feeding very expensive feed to those very large cows in order to brag about how big our calves are at weaning, and how much $$$$ they brought! And at the same time, ignoring the "COST" of profit! </p><p></p><p>DOC HARRIS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DOC HARRIS, post: 512968, member: 1683"] JHH- There may be several things that you did wrong. On the other hand, perhaps you did nothing at all wrong! It could be, that in your zeal to do everything RIGHT, you could have over-fed your heifers, you could have used a bull with a BW rating that was high - natural for him, but resulting in large calves which your heifers, fortunately, could tolerate. What is the average BW EPD of your heifers? If their EPD's dictate large calves - you are going to have at least some large calves. You should be like "Perry Mason", - and investigate every detail and possibility. Then act accordingly to rectify the potential problem, if, in fact, there is a problem. This is one reason that the current trend is to attempt to lower the size of our national cow herd to reasonable and sensible weights - around 1200 - 1300 pounds after the third calf. Breeders are going out of reason in their fervor to get larger and larger animals, because as [i]they[/i] say, ". . . .after all, we ARE selling pounds, arent we??" Maybe so, but we are also feeding very expensive feed to those very large cows in order to brag about how big our calves are at weaning, and how much $$$$ they brought! And at the same time, ignoring the "COST" of profit! DOC HARRIS [/QUOTE]
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