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• Weanling heifers

  Visited a number of farms today in the Midland counties of Laois, Westmeath and Cavan where suckler farmers presented cows for pregnancy diagnosis and weanling heifers for same. Many farmers bring their stock home from outside farms and only get the opportunity... Posted Nov 19 2010, 11:43 AM by cows365 with | with no comments Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: weanling heifers, pregnant, heifers, empy cows, sexing, weanlign bulls [Edit Tags]

• Out wintering system for suckler cows.

  Visited a farm up near Downpatrick with approx 100 suckler cows. The cows were all Angus cross Friesian and were crossed back with Angus bulls. The cows were kept outdoors throughout the year and grazed grass for almost 11 months of the year and with... Posted Aug 30 2010, 01:29 PM by cows365 with | with no comments Filed under: weanling heifers, out wintering system. grazed, off-farm business, Kale [Edit Tags]

• Ultrasonography

  Scanned weanling beef heifers as they were being sold at the local Mart. I was shocked to find so many of them in calf at such a young age. The Belgian Blue Cross heifers reach puberty from 6 months of age onwards and this creates problems in terms of... Posted Mar 03 2010, 12:56 PM by cows365 with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: weanling heifers, foetuses, progerterone [Edit Tags]