West Central Illinois | Baby Robin - 2/20/2025 19:25
Exogenous hormones while the critter is “intact” is a great way to have way smaller repro organs that affects her longevity moving forward. If it takes 6-7 calves for her to beat her development costs, how long will she get lucky and bred? I don’t know but I’d say Russian roulette with 3 in the cylinder…
If you didn’t like her, the Ralgro wouldn’t affect her. If you like her, it will affect her.
Murphy Law always has some sort of tuition associated with it.
That sounds like my luck. I think i'll scrap the idea and leave her with the feeders to sell next month. With these southpolls and the longevity of the breed and the specific cow families of the bulls i'm using my goal is for a cow to have a dozen calves or so in their lifetime. Really like an old productive cow, with my heifers i've been keeping i've also been pretty critical on udders since that seems to be what determines their life expectancy for cows in my herds they get around fine and take care of themselves and breed back but if the bags bad enough calf can't get on it not much i can do about that at that point.
Thanks for the insight, wanted to see what options looked like before I passed this one up as a replacement. |
Breeding Heifer that got Ralgro Implant
