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<blockquote data-quote="M-J-G" data-source="post: 7790293" data-attributes="member: 1819"><p>Making winter cheaper is important and using condition is a good thing, I don't dispute that, but cattle need to be matched to the farm.</p><p>If we keep native cows here they get grossly overfat when rotationally grazed, and breaking down that excessive fat can end badly because once they get that fat they have difficulty metabolising it, combine that with compensatory placental development in a cow on a harsh diet during mid pregnancy make the extremes far from ideal and not efficient.</p><p></p><p>A cow weaned at BCS4 in November is ideal to me, she'll be maintained until month 5 of pregnancy and brought down to 3 for calving.</p><p>A native cow will be gross on the same grazing and will be lucky to be as low as a 4 by calving, still too fat IMO and going back out to grass to just get fat again, to me that's not an efficient use of energy.</p><p></p><p>If I was on a hill farm I would have to work differently, but on a mixed arable and livestock farm where cows are well grazed it doesn't make best use of the land IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M-J-G, post: 7790293, member: 1819"] Making winter cheaper is important and using condition is a good thing, I don't dispute that, but cattle need to be matched to the farm. If we keep native cows here they get grossly overfat when rotationally grazed, and breaking down that excessive fat can end badly because once they get that fat they have difficulty metabolising it, combine that with compensatory placental development in a cow on a harsh diet during mid pregnancy make the extremes far from ideal and not efficient. A cow weaned at BCS4 in November is ideal to me, she'll be maintained until month 5 of pregnancy and brought down to 3 for calving. A native cow will be gross on the same grazing and will be lucky to be as low as a 4 by calving, still too fat IMO and going back out to grass to just get fat again, to me that's not an efficient use of energy. If I was on a hill farm I would have to work differently, but on a mixed arable and livestock farm where cows are well grazed it doesn't make best use of the land IMO. [/QUOTE]
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