She's earning her keep!

[Nicky]

This heifer calved last April 23rd at 15 months old (accidents do happen ) Had the calf with no problem.

Weighed over 500 lbs when we sold him last fall

Calved March 11th this year

 

[cowsense]

Nicky; The heifer really developed out well; all too often those heifers are stunted and often won't breed back. Our neighbour really has problems with bred heifer calves; he raises Angus-Simmie crosses and doesn't pull his bulls; despite his wrecks he just won't take those bulls out! :???:

 

[mtrancher]

We always preg test our weaned heifers when we bangs vaccinate them. Usually find 1-3% bred, we abort them, oops that sounds bad even in cattle, but anyway then we don't have to worry about them. If we lose 1 heifer as a result of trying to calve, the preg testing looks pretty cheap. Pulling bulls doesn't lend itself in our operation very well and I'm sure some of our bull calves that we leave for bulls are breeding these young heifers too. We do pull the bulls later in the fall but the damage has been done by then many times.
Although if you can manage to calve them out at 15 months and then get them bred back to calve in 11 months, well thats a heck of a deal. Can't beat it. Glad it turned out good for you, looks like she will make a great cow!

 

[Nicky]

Thanks, she is a dandy, and this calf is a heifer! Mike says if they'd all do it so easy we'd start em all that earlyLOL

 

[Denny]

I had one like that bought her in the fall of 1995 she calved every spring since I call her Fertile Myrtle.She calved at 13 months of age