Show Danger Periods in jn LifeCycle Life LifeCycle Cycle of Dairy Daily Heifers Heifer's College men nowadays seem to be Investigating almost everything that can be investigated The Missouri College of Agriculture has lias been heen In- In Investigating investigating In Investigating time the rate of growth of dairy heifers at different ages from conception to it maturity The investigators investigators gators find that the rate of growth Is not uniform but that growth is In three cycles The rime first spurt of very velY rapid growth occurs before birth hirth at ar artill atthe attlio till the fifth and sixth months The sec see second and ond spurt begins two ro months after afterbirth birth and ends at four and one half one months Time The time h between tween these spurts is a critical period for co cow and calf antI and It Is in this tills peri period that oboe abor abortion tion Is apt to occur generally at seven months The rime third period of growth begins at nt 1 12 1 months and mill ends at about 6 G months rime rile practical application of these results result's of invests In IS that calves l and mill heifers heifers should be ex cx extra tra well fed during the periods of greatest growth |