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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1555974" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Branded, what part of trying to agree with you do you not understand, no where did I say you had incorrect reasoning. I will restate it, I agree that if you can make significantly more money by selling calves as bulls then that is what you should do, if they are not inferior animals and not real far behind the high end of your calves. </p><p>Now as far as your figures on selling yearling Hoover Dam sons at a Bluegrass or any other stockyards around here, $2750 low end is about as fuzzy of math as I have ever heard, and anyone expecting that would surely be disappointed when picking up their check, if you are talking running them through a regular sale. If you were talking about having an actual bull sale there in which you take several bulls and advertise the sale to be such and such day during one of their cow sales times, like Amburgey Charolais does at Bluegrass East, or Horde Charolais at Bluegrass Maysville then you may well get those kinds of prices during a good market, but going through the ring at a regular sale time not that I'm aware of. My experience is that if you have AI sired or registered calves to sell, and you try telling it they just look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. I'm not trying to be argumentative just expressing the reality that I see. That is a lot of why I made that post the other day about how to make the KY cattle market better, so we could get somewhat rewarded for advances in quality.</p><p>On the subject of recessives, I would be far more concerned about bringing in disease than recessives. If you have yours tested then you know their status as far as known recessives and could be bred to Bulls that were free of said recessives. For the commercial herd the steers would be sold so carrier status would not matter. If any heifers were retained again breed to tested free Bulls, and if they were sold anyone could be up front about the possibility and recommend using free status Bulls. I do commend you though for being concerned about that aspect dedication to strict standards is admirable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1555974, member: 24816"] Branded, what part of trying to agree with you do you not understand, no where did I say you had incorrect reasoning. I will restate it, I agree that if you can make significantly more money by selling calves as bulls then that is what you should do, if they are not inferior animals and not real far behind the high end of your calves. Now as far as your figures on selling yearling Hoover Dam sons at a Bluegrass or any other stockyards around here, $2750 low end is about as fuzzy of math as I have ever heard, and anyone expecting that would surely be disappointed when picking up their check, if you are talking running them through a regular sale. If you were talking about having an actual bull sale there in which you take several bulls and advertise the sale to be such and such day during one of their cow sales times, like Amburgey Charolais does at Bluegrass East, or Horde Charolais at Bluegrass Maysville then you may well get those kinds of prices during a good market, but going through the ring at a regular sale time not that I'm aware of. My experience is that if you have AI sired or registered calves to sell, and you try telling it they just look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. I'm not trying to be argumentative just expressing the reality that I see. That is a lot of why I made that post the other day about how to make the KY cattle market better, so we could get somewhat rewarded for advances in quality. On the subject of recessives, I would be far more concerned about bringing in disease than recessives. If you have yours tested then you know their status as far as known recessives and could be bred to Bulls that were free of said recessives. For the commercial herd the steers would be sold so carrier status would not matter. If any heifers were retained again breed to tested free Bulls, and if they were sold anyone could be up front about the possibility and recommend using free status Bulls. I do commend you though for being concerned about that aspect dedication to strict standards is admirable. [/QUOTE]
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