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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 930866" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>we used to breed at a full 2 years, but with a small herd, it was hard to get anywhere building up the herd when you still have to cull hard, so we went to 1 year breeding.</p><p></p><p>As for your heifferette and calf, LOTS of good food... 3rd cut alfalfa hay or a lush pasture, and sweet feed... I feed my 16 year old cow about 3 lbs of grain a day and it has made a big difference for her. If you have another cow with lots of milk, you might try grafting the calf to her, basically giving her some twins, except the young calf wouldn't entirely depend on the second mother, and if it fails, she still has her own mother. I did that this year with a calf born to a 4 year old cow who has NO milk (she's going to the sale barn next week), I had a cow who had lost her calf, and I worked for a week on grafting the calf, and slowly the second mother gave up on chasing the thief, and by the second week it was hers, though she wasn't going to lick him. After I saw he was accepted, I weaned him from his real mother... he's doing fine now. We also had a heifferette who was bred at 6 or 7 months, and we kept her for 4 years (got 4 calves too) before she didn't breed back... she never did make a biggish calf though... about 400 lbs at 210 days was the best she could do.</p><p></p><p>Posting pictures - Get a Photobucket.com (or maybe Flickr), and upload your pictures to there, from there it'll give you a link to your picture, which you can put in a post here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 930866, member: 9096"] we used to breed at a full 2 years, but with a small herd, it was hard to get anywhere building up the herd when you still have to cull hard, so we went to 1 year breeding. As for your heifferette and calf, LOTS of good food... 3rd cut alfalfa hay or a lush pasture, and sweet feed... I feed my 16 year old cow about 3 lbs of grain a day and it has made a big difference for her. If you have another cow with lots of milk, you might try grafting the calf to her, basically giving her some twins, except the young calf wouldn't entirely depend on the second mother, and if it fails, she still has her own mother. I did that this year with a calf born to a 4 year old cow who has NO milk (she's going to the sale barn next week), I had a cow who had lost her calf, and I worked for a week on grafting the calf, and slowly the second mother gave up on chasing the thief, and by the second week it was hers, though she wasn't going to lick him. After I saw he was accepted, I weaned him from his real mother... he's doing fine now. We also had a heifferette who was bred at 6 or 7 months, and we kept her for 4 years (got 4 calves too) before she didn't breed back... she never did make a biggish calf though... about 400 lbs at 210 days was the best she could do. Posting pictures - Get a Photobucket.com (or maybe Flickr), and upload your pictures to there, from there it'll give you a link to your picture, which you can put in a post here. [/QUOTE]
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