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BCIA Weighing,
Grading Completed
Weighing and grading of the calves in Rappahannock BCIA membership herds was completed last week by Joe Graham, Jim Tomlinson and your county agent. Included were 524 calves is ten herds: Piedmont, Orchard Hill, The Oaks, Red Oak Ranch, Kilby Farm, Rock Cottage, Cannon Farm, Flint Hill Farm, Hidden Valley and Wakefield Manor. While a portion of the calves at Anchor Stock Farm, owned by Admiral Josef Gardiner were done last spring, the remainder will be weighed and graded in November as well as others at Ray Cannon’s. The above represents 47 more calves included in the program to date than were all of last year with yet more to be weighed and graded. This program does not replace any of the time proven, good herd management practices such as: early and regular calving, uniformity, sound ness, disease prevention and control, however it is a most economical and accurate means of culling and selection.
Reports op weights and grades of these calves will be processed by IBM machines which compute (by formula) adjusted average daily gains and indexes, etc. Adjustments are allowed for sex of calf, age of dam, whether calf was weaned or on creep, etc. The * object is to get fast growing calves of good quality at mini’ mum costs and thereby maxi, mize profit. Membership herds will get , their final report in a week to ten days and thus can select with accuracy their he if er s that will make the best herd replacements prior to market
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to 6ay his,calves had an average dally gain of 2.1 pounds. Since he has a high percentage of heifer calves this year and more calves than usual from first calf heifers. . he 1 anticipates an adjusted averj age daily gain of around 2.2 pounds, however this detailed , calculating will be left to the IBM’s to iigu?e. In several herds a decided improvement in grade and weight was noted.
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