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<\/a>In the final analysis the old folks chickened out…and left the vote an \u201cadvisory opinion\u201d…with Church to do as he thinks best. New generations have to learn.<\/p>\nGrandpa finally decided for himself that an older cow is better able to handle the stress\u2014-physically and psychologically\u2014than a younger animal. And the extra calves got added on at the end and for the life of that cow she was more trouble-free.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s a funny thing about cows…they\u2019ll try their best to do what you ask of them.<\/p>\n
David<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"..the next generation. It was front and center for this year\u2019s crop of yearling-plus heifers. Not quite ready to breed and that\u2019s the problem. Breed now and calve in the fall with the attendant problems plus rebreeding difficulty? Or wait until they\u2019re ready which could mean calving in the equally difficult winter months. Church on the right voted to go ahead and he\u2019s the one who gets up in the dark and will have to deal with the problem either way. Grandpa on the left voted to wait but of course he\u2019s in Assisted Living where he can do nothing but express an opinion. Curt and Carolyn in the middle were the swing votes and they said wait. In the final analysis the old folks chickened out…and left the vote an \u201cadvisory opinion\u201d…with Church to do as he thinks best. New generations have to learn. Grandpa finally decided for himself that an older cow is better able to handle the stress\u2014-physically and psychologically\u2014than a younger animal. And the extra calves got added on at the end and for the life of that cow she was more trouble-free. But it\u2019s a funny thing about cows…they\u2019ll try their best to do what you ask of them. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>It was front and center for this year\u2019s crop of yearling-plus heifers. Not quite ready to breed and that\u2019s the problem. Breed now and calve in the fall with the attendant problems plus rebreeding difficulty?<\/p>\n