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Efficient Cow?

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Anonymous

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I was up at the Vets the other day- and my neighbor told me he was already calving :???:
He had a cow and calf that had been found out on the grazing association pasture-that they just hauled back for him a couple days before...Said she had a nice calf on her so he pulled the calf to wean it- but hadn't got her poured, so didn't turn her out yet...
When he next checked her- she'd had twin calves....He said he'd wintered his bulls with his cows and apparently didn't get them pulled fast enough and the old cow calved and then got bred right back on the "foal heat".......

Not a bad cow- 3 calves in 1 year....
 

Soapweed

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Oldtimer said:
I was up at the Vets the other day- and my neighbor told me he was already calving :???:
He had a cow and calf that had been found out on the grazing association pasture-that they just hauled back for him a couple days before...Said she had a nice calf on her so he pulled the calf to wean it- but hadn't got her poured, so didn't turn her out yet...
When he next checked her- she'd had twin calves....He said he'd wintered his bulls with his cows and apparently didn't get them pulled fast enough and the old cow calved and then got bred right back on the "foal heat".......

Not a bad cow- 3 calves in 1 year....

That cow was a very efficient cow, that is for sure.

Back quite a few years ago, I was younger and kept better track. Out of our last fifteen cows that calved, in late May and early June, twelve of those cows were all in the first third of the next years' calving. They must have bred back on that "foal heat" also. After that I didn't worry too much about late calvers figuring that often times they do catch back up with the early calvers. We usually leave our bulls out for about ninety days, figuring a late calf is better than no calf.
 
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After that I didn't worry too much about late calvers figuring that often times they do catch back up with the early calvers. We usually leave our bulls out for about ninety days, figuring a late calf is better than no calf.

Same here....When we were discussing it- one fellow said that he takes his late calvers that haven't calved and throws them in a pasture alone with a bull - to try and get them to catch on that "foal heat" as soon as the calf is born...Says he figures somewhere like 50-60% breed right back just after calving.....
 

CattleArmy

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Most late calvers here get a one way trip to town. If one keeps track of the late calving cows the experience I've seen is that next year they are a lot of the same ones.


OT - Just so I understand the bull is with the late calvers before they ever calve?
 
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CattleArmy said:
Most late calvers here get a one way trip to town. If one keeps track of the late calving cows the experience I've seen is that next year they are a lot of the same ones.


OT - Just so I understand the bull is with the late calvers before they ever calve?

Ya- He has a situation where his cows have to be calved out and calves branded before he can put them on the summer pasture...So all the late calvers stay at home- with a bull- until they are all calved out....He figures that close to 60% breed right back in the days after she calves and are right back on time again.....
 
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I did get some other good news from my old buddy Doc--he's been out for the last couple months preg testing and he says breed up is running really good-with the average running around 5-6% open (average around here)- but that many were getting as good as 3-4%....

I guess thats what a little moisture, lots of green grass, and water in the water holes will do for you..... :D

The previous year, with the drought- extra hot dry summer and dryed up water holes many outfits were coming in closer to 10% open--or with a lot of late calvers...
 
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