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Having too much calving ease?
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<blockquote data-quote="lithuanian farmer" data-source="post: 1507343" data-attributes="member: 19683"><p>Looking abit at the calving ease if possible for heifers. Our recent bull isn't very heifer suitable, but most heifers have calved unassisted in these two years, 4 out of 15 needed assistance with their bull calves. However, no more heifers for him, just waiting for the last three to calve. </p><p>Not a big difference in cows calves BW and heifers. Many times heifers calves were bigger than some cows.</p><p>As we don't have very small birth weighs, no problem keeping heifer's first calf. But still looking at how she looks, mother's calving ability and etc.</p><p></p><p>Remember talking with one friend several years ago about such problem. His neighbour was using ONLY very easy calving bulls and after several generations his whole herd wasn't able to calve a medium size calf naturally. He had to cull his whole herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lithuanian farmer, post: 1507343, member: 19683"] Looking abit at the calving ease if possible for heifers. Our recent bull isn't very heifer suitable, but most heifers have calved unassisted in these two years, 4 out of 15 needed assistance with their bull calves. However, no more heifers for him, just waiting for the last three to calve. Not a big difference in cows calves BW and heifers. Many times heifers calves were bigger than some cows. As we don't have very small birth weighs, no problem keeping heifer's first calf. But still looking at how she looks, mother's calving ability and etc. Remember talking with one friend several years ago about such problem. His neighbour was using ONLY very easy calving bulls and after several generations his whole herd wasn't able to calve a medium size calf naturally. He had to cull his whole herd. [/QUOTE]
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