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Some hiefers can handle calfing as long yearlings and some might be better off to calf as 3 year olds.
Depends on the season you want them to calf in per natural or seasonal feed availability on your enviro etc..
Take a good set of half blood angus/jersey hiefers, breed em to angus 30 days after weaning weighing say 500 lbs and 30% of em breed up and calf pretty well on their own 9 months later at 14 to 15 months of age.
Different strokes for different folks.
Take a set of angus hiefers that are plenty big ( those supposedly super good high yw epd, high carcass epd kind ) are more slow maturing and perhaps you'll end up with 30% to 40% opens trying to get em bred at 15 months.
Edited by Markwright 11/14/2011 12:35
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Best age to breed heifers?
