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Yearling having a calf!!
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<blockquote data-quote="J and L" data-source="post: 186322" data-attributes="member: 3494"><p>A number of years ago Hoards Dairyman had a story about a dairy herd (500 Holsteins) in the east and mentioned that the farmer was breeding heifers for freshening at 16 months. I called him to get the details-- his premise was that the earlier the milk arrived the better the lifetime profitability and he that they did breed back a little later than a 22 month freshener did. He said that a well grown heifer would be in heat by 4 months and that he had done this successfully for a couple of years---- however he was in the process of serious rethinking because that year's "easy calving" bulls produced a large number of calving problems, thus injured and c-section heifers and dead calves. </p><p></p><p>We also had a neighbor with Jersey heifers at a custom raiser. She decided to bring them home because she didn't think the raiser was doing a good job. First one tried to calve at 13 months and when she had the group checked 7 were full term. Turned out that the raiser's Holstein cleanup bull had gotten loose but they never considered the possibility of these little girls getting pregnant. The raisers insurance company paid for all 8 and only 3 bred back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J and L, post: 186322, member: 3494"] A number of years ago Hoards Dairyman had a story about a dairy herd (500 Holsteins) in the east and mentioned that the farmer was breeding heifers for freshening at 16 months. I called him to get the details-- his premise was that the earlier the milk arrived the better the lifetime profitability and he that they did breed back a little later than a 22 month freshener did. He said that a well grown heifer would be in heat by 4 months and that he had done this successfully for a couple of years---- however he was in the process of serious rethinking because that year's "easy calving" bulls produced a large number of calving problems, thus injured and c-section heifers and dead calves. We also had a neighbor with Jersey heifers at a custom raiser. She decided to bring them home because she didn't think the raiser was doing a good job. First one tried to calve at 13 months and when she had the group checked 7 were full term. Turned out that the raiser's Holstein cleanup bull had gotten loose but they never considered the possibility of these little girls getting pregnant. The raisers insurance company paid for all 8 and only 3 bred back. [/QUOTE]
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