Spaying Heifers on Western 

 Ranches* 



By A. W. Whitehouse, D. V. S., Boulder, Colorado 



Calls for this work on the part of the cow- 

 men are not at all regular, and depend on three 

 factors: the demand for breeding she-stock, the 

 price at market points on fat open-cows and 

 heifers, and the amount of available grazing. 

 Perhaps the most important of these is the price 

 of fat open-cows. When, as at present, these sell 

 within a dollar or a dollar and a quarter of steers 

 of similar breeding, very little spaying will be 

 done. There is now no discrimination at mar- 

 ket points against spayed heifers as such, and 

 they sell on their merits at a price fully equal to 

 steers in similar condition. This is as it should 

 be, for they certainly dress out as well as steers, 

 and sometimes better. 



♦Reprinted from the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 

 April, 1911. 



