ANSC 160 Lecture 2: Beef Lecture 2
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Tennessee is a cow/calf state or feeder calf state. Commercial cow/calf: reproduction is most important, calving-giving birth in cattle, open cow/heifer-female that is not pregnant, 6 most important factors. Management-health management practices can be performed together, rather than year round on individual calves. Marketing-calves are same age and size: this increases the value of the group because they can be managed as a group, calf crop. The number or percentage of calves produced within a herd in a given year relative to the number of cows and heifers exposed to breeding. Monday, january 30, 2017: calves are born dead, fetus aborted at some point in pregnancy, calf may be lost sometime after birth, cow never becomes pregnant. This problem is far too over looked. Often there is no record-keeping program and these cows stay around and cost money without producing returns: the bull. Is typically the most neglected in terms of nancial resources, nutrition, and health.
