In the future, the lab's work with hormones and genetics may help ranchers and breeders help their heifers even more. |
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They brought with them 350 ewes, 45 wethers, ten bullocks, six heifers, one bull, four horses, and a number of goats and some poultry. |
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During winter, the heifers grazed dormant crested wheatgrass and were supplemented with wheat middlings and alfalfa hay. |
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These heifers guarantee high quality progeny that will grade well and will be sought after by the marketplace. |
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Compared with the HPS, more weaned heifers and fewer bred yearlings were sold when heifer development costs were increased. |
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Both heifers and steers showed a significant treatment effect on the severity of abscesses. |
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Carcass revenue increased for heavier carcasses and steers had a higher value relative to heifers. |
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However, the problems of the steers, heifers and cow trade have been completely ignored and farmers simply are not making money. |
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Beef cattle sold included steers, heifers not kept for replacements, and market bulls and cows. |
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In many cases it paid the highest price across the various grades of steers, heifers and cows. |
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It's not unlike a 4-H competition of prize heifers, except the women weigh less and get to go to fancy resorts. |
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Using the bags, De Vries can make sure the lower protein haylage goes to the less productive cows or heifers. |
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The heifers were subsequently weighed at the beginning and end of the breeding season. |
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Dry cows and in-calf heifers will suffer no loss from a couple of weeks indoors. |
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Allocating grass on a 36 or 48-hour basis will allow cows and heifers to be fully fed most of the time. |
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The heifer beat off stiff competition from nine other heifers and eighteen bulls to win the prestigious award. |
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Some producers concentrate solely on cows, hiring other farmers to custom raise heifers. |
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Therefore, it was impossible to replace the heifers because of the lack of grazing forages. |
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Pregnant heifers were rotated on native range pastures during the dormant season. |
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Another reason for separating bulls and heifers is to prevent young heifers becoming pregnant. |
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On the ranch, yearling heifers, 2-year-old cows, and 3-year-old cows are all managed separately. |
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There was a numerical trend for correlations to be higher for yearling bulls and lower for preharvest heifers. |
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In contrast, Kastelic et al. monitored inseminated yearling heifers for signs of pregnancy. |
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We therefore implemented a new system, whereby all our newly-calved heifers are milked immediately for their colostrum. |
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All heifers received routine health management, which included deworming and vaccination for clostridial and respiratory diseases. |
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He said one of his heifers was so frightened by the choppers it leapt a five-foot wire fence and ran down a main road. |
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Also, heifers that conceive earlier in their first breeding season calve earlier and wean heavier calves. |
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Treatment heifers had access to unlimited amounts of ungrazed forage prior to calving and were fed a different supplement. |
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Very often those calved heifers fail to go back in calf easily and become late calvers the following season. |
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Cows and newly calved heifers are immune to gutworms and very rarely show any signs of infection. |
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After sorting, pens of heifers were reweighed, processed, and moved to their home pen. |
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It was like being in a field with three very elegant but undernourished heifers chewing the cud. |
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In order of preference, dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks. |
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Yearling cattle, heifers and dry cows could be used to follow finishing cattle to clear off paddocks that have dried out. |
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Consider drying heifers off even if in good body condition and give them every chance for the next lactation. |
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He attaches value to the need to meet sufficient live weight targets for heifers. |
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With a combined total of 25,000 Holstein cows including replacement heifers, Braum's owns its own milking herd of 10,000 cows. |
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Two stories and a side shed provide space for calving heifers, storing wagons, and fixing equipment. |
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One hundred maiden heifers are entered for the sale ranging in age from 15 to 20 months. |
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The trade was very lively with in-calf and maiden heifers selling very well. |
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They raise their own replacement heifers and sell their bull calves to another organic farmer nearby. |
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The dams used in the experiment were Hereford cows and heifers, and the sires were Piedmontese and Wagyu, eight of each sire breed. |
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Dry cows and in calf heifers can easily be managed inside as maintenance requirements are relatively low and can easily be met. |
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About 15 top cows will be for sale plus in calf heifers and maiden heifers. |
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After the Exodus, red heifers were part of the sacrifices given unto the Levites to perform. |
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We didn't have any problems getting the heifers in calf, but neither were there any with the Holsteins. |
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On the beef side, prices for last week showed no change from the previous week for bullocks and heifers. |
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This was costly, and the heifers often failed when the high level of feed inputs were taken out of the system. |
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During the supplemental portion of all trials, heifers were maintained in 0.2-ha pens. |
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Both systems have utility in managing reproduction of beef and dairy heifers. |
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Sustainable cowherds require replacement of cull cows either internally via raised heifers or externally with purchased females. |
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The development costs for all heifers were adjusted by the income from the sale of cull heifers. |
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The heifers were kept in outdoor pens with fence-line bunks and dirt floors. |
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Rows and rows of cows and heifers, their moos resounding within the school walls, were tethered to makeshift stalls. |
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Although the lack of response in performance of heifers fed tylosin during the growing period was unexpected, it is not unique. |
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Every heifer sold as unserved shall be so guaranteed and all such heifers shall carry a guarantee that they are capable of breeding. |
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The heifers were not treated differently after delivering the first calf. |
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The trade eased back a little this week, but there are still strong prices being paid for the quality weanling bulls, and good shipping demand for the heifers. |
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A simple ration based on ad-lib straw with a protein balancer can be fed to young stock and replacement heifers and this will help preserve grazing. |
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While he held his machine steady and followed the sprinting animals, the on-board sniper darted the last two heifers and the helicopter winched them back to dry land. |
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He sells heifers as yearlings, finishes the bullocks and also has 20 ewes. |
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An evaluation of the economics of heifer development revealed that the pregnancy rate for yearling heifers may not be as important as the pregnancy rate of the 2-year old. |
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Following ammoniated wheat straw feeding, heifers were stratified by BW and assigned randomly, beginning on May 12, to one of four grazing treatments. |
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Heifer growth is tracked as carefully as milk production to maximize heifers available for replacements and herd growth without reducing first lactation milk production. |
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If possible, heifers should be trained to lie in cubicles before entering the main herd, as first calved heifers are a very vulnerable group for lameness. |
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Bigger sale last week with a big number of dry cows and heifers on offer. |
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During spring, the heifers grazed crested wheatgrass and native sagebrush. |
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The sale consists of quality in-calf, maiden and weaning breeding heifers. |
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In all 12 heifers and 12 bull calves have qualified for the final. |
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As these heifers do not have to be in calf, there is bound to be a drop in the number of quality beef suckler calves produced and a reduction in the supply of our best beef. |
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The punched out bullocks are continuing to sell well while the forward quality bullocks and heifers are also continuing to meet with strong demand. |
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There was further upward movement in beef prices at factories last week, particularly in the return for poorer grading animals and more in favour of heifers than bullocks. |
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And they rear bullocks to beef, selling their heifers at around 18 months. |
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There was very little difference in the top prices being paid for beef bullocks and heifers at Kilkenny Mart where there were over 1,200 head on offer. |
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At the factories, Mr. Bryan said agents were finding it more difficult to get under 30 month steers and beef heifers were also in scarce supply and strong demand. |
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Dry cows and heifers will suffer no setback through being indoors for a couple of weeks and next in line would be yearling cattle and forward stores. |
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Therefore, based on forage availability, the performance of heifers grazing pastures on the corn treatment would not have been limited because of standing herbage mass. |
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What about all those wonderfully attractive polled Angus two and a half year old heifers and steers, cut off in their prime to provide hamburgers for left wingers? |
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All heifers received routine health management, which included deworming and vaccination for clostridial and respiratory diseases, pasturella, leptospirosis, and vibriosis. |
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In 1996, prices for slaughter vealers, slaughter steers and heifers, and slaughter cows and bulls either dropped or showed no change. |
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Improved in vitro embryo development using in vivo matured oocytes from heifers superovulated with a controlled preovulatory LH surge. |
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Present stocking numbers have reached more than 100 sucklers, of which 50 will be heifers calved this summer. |
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All female animals that have yet to give birth to their first calf are called heifers. |
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Immunization in heifers with dual vaccines containing Tritrichomonas foetus and Campylobacter fetus antigens using systemic and mucosal routes. |
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The spring calving heifers have been PD-ed with 19 out of 20 in calf, the geld one being a freemartin. |
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A second family-run breeding business near Goodooga in western New South Wales provides weaner steers and heifers for finishing in the west. |
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This includes animals within 6 to 7 days of a previous heat, prepubertal heifers and postpartum anestrous cows. |
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In this way, the heifers will be able to give birth and join the milking herd before their second birthday. |
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At about 800lbs Holstein heifers will normally be able to carry a healthy calf and give birth with relative ease. |
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Control of oestrous cyeles of heifers with a synthetic prostaglandin analogue. |
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When the heifers made clear improvements in learning, they had higher heart rates and tended to move more vigorously along the race. |
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Furthermore, almost all the heifers recognized unknown individuals from different breeds, although this was achieved with greater difficulty. |
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The priests feel her presence by the cart, and, with deep reverence, attend her cart, which is drawn by heifers. |
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Holstein heifers reach puberty at an average body weight between 550 to 650 lbs. |
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When Aubrac and Fresian heifers are isolated, they increase their vocalizations and experience increased heart rate and plasma cortisol concentrations. |
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He saw Kate coming down the glen road, driving two heifers with a cushag for switch and flashing its gold at them in the horizontal gleams of sunset. |
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Two months after beginning the experiment, artificial insemination of heifers was implemented by a specialized inseminator after confirmation of estrus. |
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