M-5
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Tell your vet to do what he is paid to do. Year round does not have to be complicated and it can be managed in a way that still gives you a fairly tight group of calves. If everything else is in good shape, BCS, Mineral, Healthy bull you can still get it done in 2 calving seasons for the most part. If you have been doing a tight breeding season it will be easy. because all the cows are already in sync what happens in a year round program is cows that do not breed back on time get longer every year and you have to do some culling of cows that do not stay with the groups. These cows are costing you money anyway. I tightened my cows up with culling on the ones that would go long and kept getting further away from the rest of the groups, My plans were to be all AI this year but the bull has done an exceptional job of giving me heifers and he is LBW so he will finish this yr out on the cows. I have 2 distinct seasons right now. early spring and summer , The cows are tightening themselves up with most only going around 11 months between calves if one gets out of sync she hits the cull list. Unless you are marketing groups of calves its a lot easier. That's my 2cents some will disagree and that's fine, When they send me a check to pay for expenses ill follow their advise until them Ill uses what works for me.