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Hangin' On

Tap

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We are nearing our 80th day of checking 2 yr. old hfrs. around here. Is that some kind of record? :roll: :lol: There are 2 of them hanging on still. We had purchased heifers start calving a couple weeks before our home raised heifers, and another purchased bunch is still calving a full month after our home raised heifers finished. They said they cut them off the first of June, but looks like one of the two will never make that. She is getting turned out a while after the other one calves.

Anyone that says it is better to buy than raise you own hfrs. must have forgotten about the variables you put up with. :wink:

We bred our home raised heifers for 35 days, and they just calved for a few days longer than that. I was happy with that. Makes a little more even bunch that way.
 

Faster horses

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That's no fun, Tap. I sympathize with you. Luclily it wasn't too many that hung on so long. Perhaps you should call the person that sold them to you and at least give him a chance to make it right.

Our neighbor in W. Montana went to a well-known Angus breeders sale and bought heifers that had been syncronized, or so they said. He must have got the ones that weren't in the groups because they didn't START calving until they were represented to have been done. Took forever for those heifers to finish up. Some he just hauled to the sale ring.
 

Tap

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We had hfrs. from two outfits FH, and one was earlier calving that we bought from a neighbor. They got done in decent fashion, but the ones that came from over west of you at Rosebud, are the ones that are hanging on still. They were sale barn tested, and I thought they cut them off at May 15th, as most do, but after the sale I found out it was June 1.

So life goes.
 

Ranchy

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Sounds like yer needin some good help, there, Tap....... :wink:

Hope they finish up pretty quick, and calve without any trouble.

:cboy:
 

IL Rancher

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Tap, that was like us this spring. We bought two sets of heifers. One group started feb 6th for 60 days, finished off on day 58... The other group was schedualed for March 24th for 28 days. Started 3 weeks early and ended on time... To bad our cows started April 1st... I felt like I had been calving for 6 years by the tim we finished.... Wait, still not fisished, have 10 to go.
 

Hanta Yo

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Tap,

IT happens, whether our heifers or someone else's. There will always be a heifer or two to calve way after the calving date based on when (our) your bulls were pulled, I think some of them go "looking" for a bull, get bred and then come back to the herd.

A long time ago we purchased some heifers at a Gelbvieh dispersion sale, guess what?? One starting calving the morning of our branding, (when we branded in the spring) and she was so young and so small, I couldn't get the calf through her pelvis so we had to take her to the vet 40 miles away. She was just a heifer calf when I purchased her, she was supposed to be getting BRED rather than having a BABY!! Nevetheless, she didn't breed back, so she went away, but geez, we had some bucks in her. IT happens to the best of us :?
 

Tap

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IL rancher, and Hanta Yo, I think any of us in the business aren't too surprised at the way things can happen. I'm not really complaining, just venting a little. I can deal with whatever happens.

Maybe I could give 'em some Lutalyse? Hmmmm? :wink:
 

Faster horses

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AH, Tap, we were just showing you that it happens to everyone and to not be too hard on yourself.

Go ahead and vent. We understand...can't do anything about it, but
it helps to get it off your chest once in awhile. Anyway it sure does
me.
 

Hanta Yo

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Tap said:
IL rancher, and Hanta Yo, I think any of us in the business aren't too surprised at the way things can happen. I'm not really complaining, just venting a little. I can deal with whatever happens.

Maybe I could give 'em some Lutalyse? Hmmmm? :wink:


Vent all you want, we just like to throw our 2 cents in. Maybe palpate them to see what's going on. I started writing more to be a smart a$$ but what is the point??

I HATE those hangers on!!!!! :eek:
 

HAY MAKER

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Well hang in there Tap,I could'nt agree more,there aint nothin better N a bunch of uniformed calves from a tight calving season,just makes everything so much easier.................good luck
 

Northern Rancher

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We had two 4H heifers in a row get pregnant as calves-we'd bought both of them-the next year we showed a home raised heifer that was born on 5/15 anmd weaned on 10/01-at wash and clip day next spring the vet happened to be there so I got her pregtested in the clip chute-sure enough knocked up higher than a kite. So much for those darn infertile Hereford sired baldies lol. One 4H judge really ticked me off put our heifer dead last because she was pregnant-guess fertility is a sin in show cattle lol. Ohh well she's still pumping out calves and the heifer that beat her as a yearling neverr came back with a calf as a two year old. I haven't checked heifers other than once in the morning and once after supper for 15 years-their calving a mile from the yard out on the grass right now-haven't seen one born yet-in a few days thewy'll hit the bush and won't see them at all till they're done calving.
 

Northern Rancher

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Here's one of those child brides as a four year old-she calved about three days ago-she's a 552 daughter-that Hereford udder ain't all bad lol.
 

Northern Rancher

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See if pic worked this time lol.
 

Northern Rancher

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Here's another one that calved as a yearling-she's actually a purebred South Devon been a good little cow-her mother was the only animal I owned with the 'hairpin' brand lol.
 

Tap

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AH, Tap, we were just showing you that it happens to everyone and to not be too hard on yourself

Faster Horses, Is that kind of like the saying, "we are not laughing at you, but with you?" :wink: :lol:
 

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