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<blockquote data-quote="SPH" data-source="post: 1522519" data-attributes="member: 20580"><p>I was wondering the same thing but another possibility is they were born opposite of the calving season the breeder prefers. We only calve in the spring so fall born heifers usually are not something we buy. We breed our home raised heifers to calve right at or shortly after they turn 2.</p><p></p><p>Had this situation hurt me at a county fair show my senior year in HS. I was showing a September born senior yearling heifer my grandpa raised and since you could not show a heifer both in 4-H and FFA shows she was my FFA project as my high school was in a different county that allowed senior yearling heifers in their show while my 4-H county did not. The nice thing about a senior yearling is you usually can get 2 show seasons out of them. She was less than a month away from being 2 years as their fair is on labor day weekend. The judge asked me when she was due to calve I told him late February as that is the earliest we calve with our AI program and he made a point to say he put her in last place in the class because of that even though he felt she was good enough to lead off the class because he felt she should have been calving that fall. While that was a legit reason maybe his opinion would have been different had he realized she would be the only fall calving female in our herd. It was one of those moments when the show ring world and real life herd management are not in sync and that is why we have never bred our cattle with the show ring in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPH, post: 1522519, member: 20580"] I was wondering the same thing but another possibility is they were born opposite of the calving season the breeder prefers. We only calve in the spring so fall born heifers usually are not something we buy. We breed our home raised heifers to calve right at or shortly after they turn 2. Had this situation hurt me at a county fair show my senior year in HS. I was showing a September born senior yearling heifer my grandpa raised and since you could not show a heifer both in 4-H and FFA shows she was my FFA project as my high school was in a different county that allowed senior yearling heifers in their show while my 4-H county did not. The nice thing about a senior yearling is you usually can get 2 show seasons out of them. She was less than a month away from being 2 years as their fair is on labor day weekend. The judge asked me when she was due to calve I told him late February as that is the earliest we calve with our AI program and he made a point to say he put her in last place in the class because of that even though he felt she was good enough to lead off the class because he felt she should have been calving that fall. While that was a legit reason maybe his opinion would have been different had he realized she would be the only fall calving female in our herd. It was one of those moments when the show ring world and real life herd management are not in sync and that is why we have never bred our cattle with the show ring in mind. [/QUOTE]
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