SC - Re: Beestings--where do you get them?
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Mordonna22 at aol.com
Sat Feb 26 17:42:55 PST 2000
In a message dated 2/26/2000 6:06:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
tantra at optonline.net writes:
<<
Any time a cow is milked (until the farmer decides to breed her again) there
is a healthy amount of cream to the milk. I think they are bred every 3rd
year - not quite sure. >>
In the US, the ideal is to breed once a year, with the cow "freshening" with
a calf in the early spring. Dairy prices are based on the farmer's "base"
which is the amount of milk he sells on average per day during a three month
period in spring. His rate of pay for the rest of the year is based on a
formula using this base, so farmers want as many of their cows as possible
"freshening" just before this period, as a cow's volume of production is much
higher soon after the birth of a new calf, and tapers off the longer she goes
before giving birth again. We had a herd of around 120 head, and we'd have
as many as 110 calves born in February and March.
I'm probably the only one on this list who is a licensed Cattle Inseminator.
I'm the proud "father" of hundreds of calves.
My first introduction to computers was in jr. high school, as I was in a test
group of students trained by Georgia Tech from grade school up to have
computer knowledge back in the early sixties. Later in the early seventies I
participated in a pilot program by Clemson University to record dairy
production vs. feed costs on computer. Most dairies now days could not
imagine operating without such a simple program, and many others much more
complicated. The picture of America's dairymen as mud footed louts who
wouldn't know a computer if it bit them is insultingly inaccurate.
Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)
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