Anonymous-0
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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.