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Ft. Ripley MN | I wonder if some of that isn’t starting to show up in the beef industry. Have all these flashy high production genetics but at the cost of longevity and maternal traits.
If I remember right it was something like 5 calves is all a cow lasted in the beef herd on average which doesn’t seem right to me… she should still be in her prime at that age.
Don’t see why a good beef cow can’t go 12-15 years still doing her job. That high turnover rate could get quite spendy for the ones raising heifers.
It wasn’t that many years ago Holsteins would go 10 plus years and now it seems they just get burnt out from being pushed | |
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Short dairy cows
