box6rranch
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Well Red, according to your Maine schedule that would make her due date today. Nice enough weather hopefully she'll listen to your expert advice :O)
oakbar said:I induce a few cows/heifers each year based on my travel schedule. I know for you purists on SP that would be a sin but I would rather be here when the calf is born than a thousand miles away when she has trouble. In my world, inducing cows is a tool that works well for me. However, given the choice I would always like them to calve on their own. We use 5 ccs of Lutalyse with 20 ccs of dexamethazone and usually about 36-40 hours later we have a calf. I won't induce a calf if I don't know the exact breeding/AI date though. I have not had any more problems with the induced births than I have with "natural" births. I sometimes wonder if heifers dilate quite as well as they would naturally but that is just a very obscure observation on a few heifers. Heifers don't dilate as well anyway. Bottom line is that I'd rather they calve naturally but being here when they calve trumps the other considerations as long as I know their breeding date.
By the way, Greenbean, we're from northern Iowa(Northwood) too!! What's your hometown?
red said:when the teats are almost straight out get ready.
Red
box6rranch said:I wonder what the truest gestation table to use would be? I've seen a few and the dates are always different. Our Maine X is 3 days late now but we used the chart listed in the SEK Genetics book.
Jill said:This is a classic example of why we don't induce, if you had induced when you 1st questioned it you would have been at least 7 day too early.
tadpole said:She finally calved!!! <party> <party> When I came home from school today he was up walking around the pen. She had a bull calf and weighed eighty six pounds tonight when i processed him. XXCC called it.... She calved on 295 days! haha.. I will try to get some pictures on here in the next couple of days...