. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . not likely tobe with calf at this early age, for which reasonbuyers are willing to pay as much per pound for afat heifer under 18 months as for a steer of the same BABY BEEF. 155 quality and condition. (3) After a certain age isreached, usually about twelve months, heiferscome in heat at intervals of 21 days. This periodof heat lasts about two days, during which time notonly the one individual loses in weight, but othersin the herd are more or less excited and lose there-by. This loss can only be overcome by watchingthe herd and by separating
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . not likely tobe with calf at this early age, for which reasonbuyers are willing to pay as much per pound for afat heifer under 18 months as for a steer of the same BABY BEEF. 155 quality and condition. (3) After a certain age isreached, usually about twelve months, heiferscome in heat at intervals of 21 days. This periodof heat lasts about two days, during which time notonly the one individual loses in weight, but othersin the herd are more or less excited and lose there-by. This loss can only be overcome by watchingthe herd and by separating each animal that comesin heat—which, of course, involves labor—or byspaying all females. Spaying heifers is a muchmore difficult operation than castrating male calves,resulting in some shrinkage and not infrequentlyin the death of the animal. Feeding for baby beefis the best solution of the heifer problem. Theprices on young she stufif at our Western marketsare often such as to make the feeding of that classmore profitable than steer Angus Baby Beeves fed by the Illinois Experiment Station. CHAPTER XIV. FEEDING YEARLING STEERS FOR BEEF. In the preceding chapter on baby beef, the ad-vantages of early fattening were pointed out. Butthis method also has its limitations and its disad-vantages under certain conditions. Where beefraising is not carried on in connection with dairyfarming, the cost of keeping the cow one year ischarged to the calf she brings up. In other words,the calf, in starting upon its career of beef produc-tion, has hanging over it a debt for its creation. Ifthe calf is sold at the age of twelve months, thissum, which may be only $12, is charged to oneyears growth ; if sold at the age of 24 months itis distributed over two years growth, making it$6 for each year. The feeder market gives recog-nition of this fact by quoting calves about 25 percent higher per pound than yearlings of equal qual-ity. Owing to the birth cost of an animal it is notalways
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