{"id":1806,"date":"2014-04-24T23:29:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:24:53","slug":"mixing-groups-of-heifers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Groups of Heifers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Question<\/strong><\/em>: . . . . We have three pens of calves, 100 head, any where from 450-600 lb. heifers. We have had them all about the same length of time 3-4 weeks. We have taken them for a couple walks in the 115 acre pasture. The question is, can we combine all the calves and take them all for a walk at the same time and then randomly divide them back into 3 pens? I heard some where they may develope pen mates? Is there any truth to that? Is there any harm in doing that? Would you guys ever do that?<br \/>\n<em><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The calves will definitely have pen mates.\u00a0 This is one of the reasons Bud was against having a sick\u00a0 pen because a sick calf certainly didn\u2019t need the upheaval of being pulled away from his friends and put in with strangers.\u00a0 As far as asking if this will hurt healthy calves, I doubt if it will.\u00a0 Especially, if by doing it this way you will take them for a walk more often.\u00a0\u00a0 If they are working well for you when you bring them back to the pens, they will probably stick together and end up in the same pen anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: . . . . We have three pens of calves, 100 head, any where from 450-600 lb. heifers. We have had them all about the same length of time 3-4 weeks. We have taken them for a couple walks in the 115 acre pasture. The question is, can we combine all the calves and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockmanship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}