shortii
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Chambero I couldn't have said it better myself. (clapping)
and kinda like this haha <deadhorse>chambero said:This has been beat to death on here many times in the past, but calving ease is overemphasized in the busines. If you calve out enough heifers, you are going to have to pull some - even if you breed them to longhorns (which is pretty commonly done by commercial cattleman in the south). Plenty of assisted births on heifers have nothing to do with small pelvic size or too large/wrong shaped calves.
We calve 50-60 heifers per year, probably have to help 10 +/- to some degree. It's been two years since I've had to assist a single cow( our cows used to be those heifers).