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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 3547"><p>Lisa,</p><p></p><p>If you are just starting out and are looking to raise animals to sell at your local auction, my suggestion would be to go with raising crossbreds, at least to get started. We have researched this question ourselves and what we have found is that unless you have a lot of money ($2000 +) plus per cow and ($4,000 +) for the bull that will allow you to purchase offspring of the current "hot" bloodlines you will have a hard time getting much more than slaughter prices for your purebreds especially if you are only selling a few non AI sired calves at auction. By starting with producing good quality crossbreds, you will have a ready market for you calves and will gain the added advantages of heterosis (also you will not have to spend your money on registerations that the market will not pay extra for). At a later time when the local beef producers (who will most likely be the ones to purchase your breeding stock) know that you produce healthy stock and you have developed facilities, you can then start breeding up to a purebred herd (keeping higher and higher percentage calves of a particular breed) either using a top of the line purebred bull or better yet by using semen from the best bulls in the breed. This is just my opinion but hope this helps you in your decision.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:snefstea@conagrabeef.com">snefstea@conagrabeef.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3547"] Lisa, If you are just starting out and are looking to raise animals to sell at your local auction, my suggestion would be to go with raising crossbreds, at least to get started. We have researched this question ourselves and what we have found is that unless you have a lot of money ($2000 +) plus per cow and ($4,000 +) for the bull that will allow you to purchase offspring of the current "hot" bloodlines you will have a hard time getting much more than slaughter prices for your purebreds especially if you are only selling a few non AI sired calves at auction. By starting with producing good quality crossbreds, you will have a ready market for you calves and will gain the added advantages of heterosis (also you will not have to spend your money on registerations that the market will not pay extra for). At a later time when the local beef producers (who will most likely be the ones to purchase your breeding stock) know that you produce healthy stock and you have developed facilities, you can then start breeding up to a purebred herd (keeping higher and higher percentage calves of a particular breed) either using a top of the line purebred bull or better yet by using semen from the best bulls in the breed. This is just my opinion but hope this helps you in your decision. [email=snefstea@conagrabeef.com]snefstea@conagrabeef.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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