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<blockquote data-quote="True Grit Farms" data-source="post: 1484362" data-attributes="member: 24694"><p>Both of those are great post. When you home raise a bull for your herd how many do you choose from? The reason I ask is at one time I was selling a few bulls myself, and some started off nice and didn't grow out to what I expected. Then you have a real problem. If you cull him you lose money, and if you use him your goals of improving with every calf crop isn't realistic. Every bull I raised would run a cow at 6 months old or less and pester the heck out of the herd bull. Sometimes a cow would have all the bulls pestering her at the same time. The risk vs reward in retaining a bull isn't worth it to me, bulls are still selling cheap and being able to pick and choose what you think you need is priceless. IMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="True Grit Farms, post: 1484362, member: 24694"] Both of those are great post. When you home raise a bull for your herd how many do you choose from? The reason I ask is at one time I was selling a few bulls myself, and some started off nice and didn't grow out to what I expected. Then you have a real problem. If you cull him you lose money, and if you use him your goals of improving with every calf crop isn't realistic. Every bull I raised would run a cow at 6 months old or less and pester the heck out of the herd bull. Sometimes a cow would have all the bulls pestering her at the same time. The risk vs reward in retaining a bull isn't worth it to me, bulls are still selling cheap and being able to pick and choose what you think you need is priceless. IMO [/QUOTE]
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