Skinny Mini's

[Faster horses]

Look at the weights when cattle are sold in your area. I doubt that you
find many, if any,older cows that weigh 1000#. We have found from
weighing cattle at home, that cows lose 100# where ever they are sold,
near or far, they seem to lose about the same weight.

That bigger cow is said to be from 'frame creep'. You add all the performance
that is available when you buy bulls, get yearling weight EPDS @ 100+ and
you are going to have bigger cows. No doubt about it. Not saything that's
a bad thing for everyone, but going back to my comment about 1000#
cows just aren't out there. Nowdays even first calf heifers come close to
that or even more.

I remember when we first started out, 700# was the acceptable weight
for a first calf heifer. In fact, when we started out, the ranch we leased
on shares didn't breed their heifers to calve as 2's, they bred them to
calve as 3's. And that's a whole other can of worms. Those 3 year olds
that didn't calve as twos are big and dumb and many don't even want
anything to do with a calf. So that didn't last very long til the share
people changed to calving their heifers as 2's. They just thought by
waiting til their 3 year old year, the heifers would be bigger. And they
probably were. Darn sure a bigger problem...

 

[eatbeef]

Sorry for picture quality, its with a scratch up phone.

For everybody that says there arent 1000 pound cows around these days. That calf will definantly make half her weight at 205 days! She was part of a group of heifers i bought and calved out and then sold the bigger ones and got stuck with 5 of the small framed ones. But looks like its gonna work out alright. Calf sired by Final Answer and born on March 16 calf and this photo was on August 24th.

 

[Faster horses]

I said/meant mature cows, not 2 or 3 year olds. I think sometimes, 3 year olds weigh less than 2's.

That little cow darn sure made you some money. Nice calf!

 

[Faster horses]

double post, sorry.

 

[eatbeef]

When she walked off the truck i thought why in the hell did anybody even waste a straw of semen on her. I got to good of a price on the rest of the pairs to stick her to somebody so she has a home for now.

 

[4Diamond]

Been thinking about this topic lately as we had a neighbors bull get in with our cows last summer. So far we have had 5 13-16 month old heifers calf. As of today all calved unassisted and all calves are alive. We have 2 more that aren't far off so fingers are crossed.

 

[Triangle Bar]

Been thinking about this topic lately as we had a neighbors bull get in with our cows last summer. So far we have had 5 13-16 month old heifers calf. As of today all calved unassisted and all calves are alive. We have 2 more that aren't far off so fingers are crossed.

Well, I hope your luck holds out. I've had a few teenage moms over the years like most on here, but I sure wouldn't try and do that on purpose.

The last two I had... one I pulled and other cow calved out the side via the vet. They both raised good calves. The one I pulled re-bred and is still in the herd. The c-section was open that fall and then I did a stupid thing. I kept her thinking she had a year to give since she calved @ 13 months old. She died on pasture that following summer.

Live & learn... or not.

 

[bllcattle]

If it is just the size thing ,just go to Pharo's operation and I'm sure you can bring your cowherd down quite a little. As to breeding to immature it will haunt you in alot of ways. there is dozen's of reasons why we breed these first timers at14-16 months.