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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1773441" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I would be looking for a replacement for the simple fact that you already have an issue with a "few open later this year"... could have been drought... more likely because he is hurting.... If he is not limping bad here, it would not dock him much if any... bulls of size go to kill... the only possible ones going home to a farm are the 1500 and UNDER sized ones... the "few open later" ones are strike one, the lameness is strike 2..... if he gets too lame to want to get around at all... where will you be. </p><p>We have several bulls.... have quite a few places we rent summer pasture and each needs a bull to breed spring calving cows... rent one out occasionally to someone with 10-12 cows.... cannot afford to have open cows... if it is one or 2 in a group then the cow normally gets sold... sometimes extenuating reasons will allow her to get held back for 6 months to go with the next calving group (we calve spring and fall)....</p><p>Prices were higher this fall than I thought they would be, and I look for them to stay up with the sell down in drought areas, cows will be in demand and push prices higher and bulls to breed them. </p><p>20 head is a big enough number that opens are costing you serious money...Our 5 wt steer calves were bringing in the 1.80 + range....that's 900 a calf... 3 would buy you a decent bull... 4 if you average in 2 heifers at 700 each.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1773441, member: 25884"] I would be looking for a replacement for the simple fact that you already have an issue with a "few open later this year"... could have been drought... more likely because he is hurting.... If he is not limping bad here, it would not dock him much if any... bulls of size go to kill... the only possible ones going home to a farm are the 1500 and UNDER sized ones... the "few open later" ones are strike one, the lameness is strike 2..... if he gets too lame to want to get around at all... where will you be. We have several bulls.... have quite a few places we rent summer pasture and each needs a bull to breed spring calving cows... rent one out occasionally to someone with 10-12 cows.... cannot afford to have open cows... if it is one or 2 in a group then the cow normally gets sold... sometimes extenuating reasons will allow her to get held back for 6 months to go with the next calving group (we calve spring and fall).... Prices were higher this fall than I thought they would be, and I look for them to stay up with the sell down in drought areas, cows will be in demand and push prices higher and bulls to breed them. 20 head is a big enough number that opens are costing you serious money...Our 5 wt steer calves were bringing in the 1.80 + range....that's 900 a calf... 3 would buy you a decent bull... 4 if you average in 2 heifers at 700 each. [/QUOTE]
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