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What is the age of a castrated cow?
Cows are not castrated. Bulls are. Bull calves are best castrated before 6 months of age.
What is the best way to dry up a milking goat?
The most natural way to dry off a milking goat is to stop milking her.
What is best in between hand milking and machine milking?
machine milking is by far because you can milk more faster and with less problems to and its more comfortable for the cow
What is the best type of milking cow?
Jersey
When do you separate calf from bulls?
This question is asked in quite an awkward manner: are you asking about separating young calves (or a young calf) from a herd of bulls, or about separating heifer calves from the bull calves in your herd? Or are you asking about something entirely which wasn't put across very clearly in this question? I'm assuming that you are referring to the middle question: separating heifer calves from the bull calves. The best time to do that is at weaning, which is around 6 to 8 months for a beef herd. When you process your heifers, make sure you give them a shot of lute (or a similar injectable hormone) to make any unknown-pregnant heifers abort, particularly if your herd is highly fertile and the heifers and bulls have hit puberty before they've been weaned, which happens more often than you might think. As for the first question, the calf should be separated from the bull herd immediately, particularly if it's a young animal and needs its dam. A bull that doesn't know what a calf is will physically abuse that calf with the intentions to do harm or even kill. Even though some herd bulls can be great with calves, this isn't true for all of them. This is partly why many producers choose to remove their herd bulls from the cow-herd before the cows start calving.
Why are some breeds of beef cattle referred to as sire breeds and some as dam breeds?
"Sire" breeds, also called terminal breeds, are those that are best used for breeding calves that are best for beef production (being fed and slaughtered for beef.) "Dam" breeds, also called maternal breeds, are those that are best used for breeding replacement animals like bulls and heifers that are used in breeding herds. Now as to why such breeds are called terminal or maternal breeds are because they have certain genetic characteristics that entitle them to be best used for raising calves for beef or for the breeding herd. This shows you that not all breeds are the same as the other and have the same genetic characteristics as another. For instance, Charolais cattle are best used as a terminal breed versus Shorthorn because of the ability of calves to grow quickly and gain weight in a shorter amount of time than Shorthorns. Shorthorns are best used as a maternal breed because they have better mothering, calving and milking ability than Charolais do and thus take less labour to care for and raise calves than Charolais do.
Do you use iodine on cows?
Only if it's necessary. For example, Iodine is best for dipping the navel on newborn calves to keep it from getting infected, and for dipping teats in before milking for commercial dairy operations. Iodine is also used as a supplement in loose mineral for cattle to eat.
When is the best time have calves?
April to May.
What is a heifer bull?
Heifers have smaller pelvic areas than mature cows do, so they need to be bred to a bull that has, genetically, low birth weights. Heifers are also best bred to yearling bulls(primarily 12 to 18 months of age), which are smaller than the bigger mature bulls and won't increase the chances of crippling the heifers when trying to mount them. Young and/or small bulls tend to have the genetics for siring smaller calves, and heifers have the body size that tend to develop small calves, however, in either case this does not always occur: Yearling bulls are primarily unproven bulls; small bulls may sire large calves; Breed of the yearling bull plays a part in low birthweight genetics; condition, feed and environment play a role in lowbirthweight rates in heifers and cows. Young bulls are not the best because 99% of the time they are unproven sires. In other words, they are virgin bulls, or have never mated with a cow or heifer and produced offspring. They are selected by the rancher because they are expected to produce low birthweight calves out of the heifers, only because the Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) combined and calculated from the sire and dam, and compared with other bulls of the same breed and raised in the same conditions, says so. Smaller bulls also need to have the EPD numbers to be able to be used on heifers. If there are no papers that come with a small bull that you buy, you are making a big gamble on him. Even EPDs on yearlings are not reliable, especially if you have a 60% chance that that bull will sire large calves instead of small ones. Thus young unproven bulls may have high birth weights that should not be used on heifers; the same goes with smaller bulls. Breed also has a large affect on how the heifers calve out, and what size of calves the bull will sire. For instance, a yearling Simmental bull is put in with about 20 Red Angus heifers. Low birth weight EPDs for the Simmental breed is different from the low birthweight genetics of the Red Angus breed, so there's a higher chance that 10 or 15 of those Red Angus heifers will need assistance. Even using a Red Angus yearling bull that may have the numbers for low birth weights may not sire low birthweight calves in all of the heifers. But, primarily using a Continental bull that is of a breed that is notorious for large calves, like Simmental, Charolais, Maine Anjou and Belgian Blue, for instance, on your heifers, is asking for trouble. Small bulls like Dexters, White Park, Red Poll, etc. tend to sire small calves that are easy for your heifers to pop out. So heifer bulls are chosen through careful selection of genetics, size and breed, with the type of heifers in mind, in order to have a successful, worry-free calving season. If you know what to look for, you will have some happy heifers on your hands.
How is selective breeding used to produce cows with desired qualities?
Selective breeding is a tool that takes particular characteristics of the dam that the producer wishes to expand or increase on, and desired characteristics of the sire that the producer wishes to bring into his herd, and produce daughters that, hopefully, exhibit the desired characteristics later in life. To make it more clearer, here's a couple examples: one on the beef side, the other on the dairy. A beef cattle producer wishes to produce heifers that have better calving ease, better milking ability, bigger calves, and last longer in his herd in terms of fertility and better forage convertability. Heritability is important in these selections, as some characteristics are more heritable than others, such as bigger calves and milking ability. However, bigger calves are also attributed to what the cow eats in her last trimester. What the producer can do to obtain this goal is do a few or all of a number of options: 1. Cull all undesirable cows in terms of condition and health issues 2. Pay better attention to nutritive needs of his/her pregnant and nursing cows 3. Don't buy bulls simply because they're sold cheap 4. Introduce a cross-breeding program into the herd 5. Select a bull or bulls that have characteristics for producing good daughters (are maternal-type bulls, not terminal-type bulls) 6. Introduce AI into the herd if none of the bulls being looked at meet any of your sepcifications. 7. Introduce body condition scoring to find the cows that keep their condition and fertility better than others. 8. Other things I can't think of off hand. A herd bull is bought and selected to improve the genetic quality of your herd, not to maintain it nor decrease it. A herd bull with maternal qualities is what the producer needs to produce daughters that meet most if not all of his speficications. Other factors listed above also help in producing desirable calves and also help weed out the cows that are hard-keepers. The dairy producer wants to produce daughters with higher milking ability and better docility. What this producer has to do to achieve this is similar to above: cull out undesirable cows, and find bulls that meet these specifications. Most dairy producers breed their cows with the use of AI, so selecting bulls for producing these daughters and ordering semen from these bulls' owners is the only way to produce these daughters.
How popular are pit bulls in the US?
pit bulls are eveywhere in the us, and the third best dog in the u.s.
When is it the best time for bulls to catch there prey and why?
Bulls are male animals that eat grasses. They have no need to catch them.
