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<blockquote data-quote="Lovegoodstock" data-source="post: 3927678" data-attributes="member: 42646"><p>Pros and cons, I bought a dozen useful heifers with top notch calves, calved at 24 months last autumn, fed a decent ration, had milk galore on grass, but didn't milk as well as my cows through winter, but is it their genes, breed, weight,,, all very well calving 12 or 18 months sooner, obvious massive saving, say of 700 quid. But a calf at 14 months weighing 180 kilo lighter @2.50 a kilo for a store is 450 in one year, original post heifer excelled herself in conceiving so soon, but doubt if you had a herd calving so young the calving interval would be so tight? Be a massive undertaking doing a project to find out, but if a suckler lives to 13 years before being killed that's equivalent of a 78 year old human? So 1 year to 6, so equivalent of a child giving birth at 7 and a half years old? Accidents happen but don't think right to encourage? Juramate all females a couple of weeks post weaning surely a better job and not that expensive</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lovegoodstock, post: 3927678, member: 42646"] Pros and cons, I bought a dozen useful heifers with top notch calves, calved at 24 months last autumn, fed a decent ration, had milk galore on grass, but didn't milk as well as my cows through winter, but is it their genes, breed, weight,,, all very well calving 12 or 18 months sooner, obvious massive saving, say of 700 quid. But a calf at 14 months weighing 180 kilo lighter @2.50 a kilo for a store is 450 in one year, original post heifer excelled herself in conceiving so soon, but doubt if you had a herd calving so young the calving interval would be so tight? Be a massive undertaking doing a project to find out, but if a suckler lives to 13 years before being killed that's equivalent of a 78 year old human? So 1 year to 6, so equivalent of a child giving birth at 7 and a half years old? Accidents happen but don't think right to encourage? Juramate all females a couple of weeks post weaning surely a better job and not that expensive [/QUOTE]
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