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Having too much calving ease?
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<blockquote data-quote="elkwc" data-source="post: 1509540" data-attributes="member: 22295"><p>Jeanne I'm starting something new this year. Many I know had went to calving at 20-21 months of age on the heifers. We've had some calve in that age range usually by accident or because they were a younger heifer in the group. I pulled all but one bull last winter and plan to pull all this coming fall and winter. And plan to start our calving around March 1st. Next year will be a little earlier as the fires burned some pastures so we had to move open heifers to where we had the bulls. This year like I've stated the older heifers Jan-Feb of 017 will have the bulls turned in this weekend with them. Then the late April-May heifers I won't turn the bulls in until Dec and plan to calve them and hopefully will have a little wheat pasture for them after they calve if not will creep the calves as there won't be many and then not rebreed until the following late May or June 1st. I've found in the past if you wean a heifers calf and give the heifer a little rest it pays off down the road here in our environment. It gives them a chance to mature and recover from raising the first. In 4-5 years I will tell you how it is working but it has worked in the past so think it will in the future. Many breeders that do both spring/fall calving breed their spring heifers for fall and fall for spring. I want my heifers to be at least 24 months of age but prefer 27-30.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="elkwc, post: 1509540, member: 22295"] Jeanne I'm starting something new this year. Many I know had went to calving at 20-21 months of age on the heifers. We've had some calve in that age range usually by accident or because they were a younger heifer in the group. I pulled all but one bull last winter and plan to pull all this coming fall and winter. And plan to start our calving around March 1st. Next year will be a little earlier as the fires burned some pastures so we had to move open heifers to where we had the bulls. This year like I've stated the older heifers Jan-Feb of 017 will have the bulls turned in this weekend with them. Then the late April-May heifers I won't turn the bulls in until Dec and plan to calve them and hopefully will have a little wheat pasture for them after they calve if not will creep the calves as there won't be many and then not rebreed until the following late May or June 1st. I've found in the past if you wean a heifers calf and give the heifer a little rest it pays off down the road here in our environment. It gives them a chance to mature and recover from raising the first. In 4-5 years I will tell you how it is working but it has worked in the past so think it will in the future. Many breeders that do both spring/fall calving breed their spring heifers for fall and fall for spring. I want my heifers to be at least 24 months of age but prefer 27-30. [/QUOTE]
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