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Birth Control for heifers Pt. 2

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I have been away for a couple days and I was reading some older posts. Someone asked about "birth control" for heifers. You can get them spayed, but that would be permanent. Don't know if you were looking at something temporary or permanant. We have spayed heifers several times with good luck. The ONLY time we have had a problem is when the vet spayed them "on the inside". He went in from behind and cut something off inside them. Unfortunately he is not 100% sure if he gets the right things cut off!!! The other way, he makes a small incision on the side and pulls whatever he needs to outside, I think it is the ovaries, and cuts them off. One hog ring to hold the incision back together and they are good. One year we had a few that we didn't want to get bred, the vet told us to put 2 implants in them and it would make them sterile. It didn't work on all of them!!! I know it is not always just as simple as NOT putting the bull with them as some people suggested. Locations and situations sometimes don't allow that.
 
not exposing them to a bull usually works for us, ludaleis will abort them, I have to ask why someone wants heifers not to reproduce?
 
I am curious to know also why someone would not want their heifers to reproduce. The idea behind having beef cattle is to get them to reproduce, right? The reason I have been looking into finding birth control for heifers is we have 2-9 month old heifers that we want to keep open until next May so they can fall under the same breeding schedule as the rest of the herd.
 
I don't think this is rocket surgery, guys- he just has some heifers that are too young to breed, and apparently no way to separate them from the bull.
 
first of all i dont know if there is a "short term" birth control available-- but id be reluctant to use a chemical method on them. id find a place top put the bull-- loan or lease him to a neighbor-- that way your calves come in short time frame-its difficult to have small herd and keep a bull too.
 
As far as spaying is concerned, most producers have many heifers that they don't plan on bringing into the cow herd, and will be sold for beef. Heifers generally bring less per pound than steers at auction, because of slower growth- but if you spay them, they grow more like steers, and announcing that they are spayed when selling may get you a slightly better price, on an animal that will weigh more than she would have without the procedure.

Main problem is cost- if you have to hire a vet at full price, it negates any gain- but might work out if you have a kid in vet school or some other cheap way to do it.
 
In any cow/calf operation I have been around, only the best heifers are kept for replacementand the rest are marketed for beef. If you bred every heifer calf you had (they are roughly 50% of the calf crop) you'd be overrun with calves and run out of grass!
 
I think that a CIDR might do the trick. They are temporary implants that contain the pregnancy hormone Progesterone. These fool the body into thinking it is pregnant. Of course when they are removed the heifer will cycle unless one is put right back in. I think the release of hormone lasts 7-10 days. I would consult a vet though because I believe that this would be off-label usage. Another thing is Lutalyse. This is a hormone as well. It causes the heifer to com into heat if she is not pregnant. If she is pregnant it will cause the heifer to dump the fetus. So while not exactly control, it will terminate the pregnacy.
 
talking about Cidrs I'll be pulling 70 in the morning so we can breed on the 10Th.
They might well work off label for that purpose, I don't reuse mine but I know several ranchers who have reused them up to three times.
 
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