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This depends on each individual herd and breed. Some herds have a 60% calving assistance rate, whereas other herds may only have a 1% calving assistance rate. Hostlein cows and heifers have a higher rate calving problems than Angus cows, and Belgian Blues have the highest calving problem rates of any breed.
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What facilities are used for cow calf operations?
On many operations, a calving shed or barn with a head-catch facility to use for cows or heifers that need help calving, handling facility with a loading chute, and a calf chute attached to that handling facility are commony found in cow-calf operations. Calf chutes are not needed if the ranch uses horses and ropes to brand, vaccinate, tag and castrate their calves. Separate pens for cows calving, cows with bull calves, cows with heifer calves, bulls, culls, backgrounding, etc. are also found on a cow-calf operation. If the cow-calf operations calve in the summer, a calving barn isn't really necessary.
A ugandan farmer wishes to continue the breeding program to improve his heard of cows further When he is choosing which cows to breed mkilk production is an important quality Give two other qualitiy?
#1. Ease of calving. You would want to keep cows who have a history of being able to calve without help as opposed to those who always need help during calving. #2. Size of calves and viability. You would want to keep cows that generally calve larger calves, as well as those who rarely loose calves due to small birth size or general weakness of newborn calves. Over time your herd will become generally more robust.
What are the usual hours for a cattle rancher?
Ranchers don't work 9-5, 5 days a week every day like many people do. Their work mainly is from sun up to sun down, and sometimes during the night, depending on whether one of their cows is in need of emergency help with calving or illness.
Why do you need to feed cows corn?
Cows do not eat corn in their natuaral diet. They eat grass. Cows are being fed corn because it is cheap and plentiful. Because corn is not a natural food for cows, they need help digesting it and are fed antibiotics to keep their digestion healthy.
Can cows live alone?
Majority of cows don't and shouldn't need help with calving, especially beef cows. It gets questionable with dairy cows, especially Holsteins--not so much with Jerseys or other non-Holstein dairy breeds.
How many cows will you need for a hectare?
None. Cows may need grazing area but an area does not need cows!
I just received a number of cows. Its July 31 is it too late to breed the cows?
We need WAY more information than this. These cows, are they all open, or did you buy them as bred stock? And are you sure these are cows, or are they weaned heifers? What breed are they? And where you are located? Assuming that you bought open (unbred) cows, the time you decide to breed them all depends on your location and what the climate and season is going to be around 9 to 10 months from now. Is it going to be too hot for the cows to be calving? Is calving season going to coincide with fly season? You will have to vaccinate your cows as well prior to a few months them giving birth, and vaccinations differ from region to region, so you will have to visit your local large animal vet for necessary vaccines to use on your new cows. Where you allow your cows to calve is important too. They should have access to sheltered areas like a shed or a grove of trees, and a large paddock that is big enough should one of them decide to go off on her own to calve out.
When converting decimals to a percentage simply move the decimal point?
No, you also need to add the percentage symbol.
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How long after calving can a cow or heifer get bred again?
As a general rule, a good fertile cow or first-calf heifer should be able to come back into heat in 45 to 60 days after calving. But if you need your females to meet the same calving date as the previous year, you will have to account for at least 80 to 90 days of rest before you can get her bred again. All cows and heifers should be in their normal estrous cycles by the time the annual breeding season starts again, and not just starting to come into heat. If you're finding that's the case, then you really need to make some culling decisions in your herd.
How do heifers help?
They help by acting as replacements in the cowherd to those older cows that need to be culled due to productivity, body condition or conformation issues.
Why do cows and goats need to be fed on grass and oilseed-cakes?
Cows and goats need to be fed on grass and oilseed cakes because grass and oilseed cakes are milk producing food so these help them to produce milk
