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Keeping/Separating fall heifers
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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1798663" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>When I was selling replacement heifers I looked around the area for big outfits with high quality cattle, and asked around to see if they culled based on age. If they culled at ten years automatically, I'd buy their heavy bred cows at the sale barn, and eventually privately as I got to know people, because the cows were proven producers. If the cow raised a 600 pound calf I'd breed her to a really good bull and get one or two more calves. I would raise the heifers, synchronize and AI them, and sell them back to the people I bought the cows from for three times what I paid for the cows to begin with. Carefully watching the cows for condition, I'd sell them before they lost value. Turnover was high, but I liked that part of it.</p><p>I know people that raise their own replacements, bulls, background, and all of them make their niche work for them. Raising replacements for sale meant I had steers to sell at weaning too.</p><p></p><p>One thing I see a lot of people do is go to the sale barn and look for "deals", as in cheap. I think that's a big mistake. If I'm buying somebody's culls I'm looking for his best. One bid over kill prices on a good cow is a much better deal than one bid over kill prices on a crappy cow... even if it's more money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1798663, member: 42463"] When I was selling replacement heifers I looked around the area for big outfits with high quality cattle, and asked around to see if they culled based on age. If they culled at ten years automatically, I'd buy their heavy bred cows at the sale barn, and eventually privately as I got to know people, because the cows were proven producers. If the cow raised a 600 pound calf I'd breed her to a really good bull and get one or two more calves. I would raise the heifers, synchronize and AI them, and sell them back to the people I bought the cows from for three times what I paid for the cows to begin with. Carefully watching the cows for condition, I'd sell them before they lost value. Turnover was high, but I liked that part of it. I know people that raise their own replacements, bulls, background, and all of them make their niche work for them. Raising replacements for sale meant I had steers to sell at weaning too. One thing I see a lot of people do is go to the sale barn and look for "deals", as in cheap. I think that's a big mistake. If I'm buying somebody's culls I'm looking for his best. One bid over kill prices on a good cow is a much better deal than one bid over kill prices on a crappy cow... even if it's more money. [/QUOTE]
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