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Yeah that's pretty well it. It's government funded. But here raising cattle is almost gone. Getting a spot is no trouble. So I put them out the end of may pick them up the end of October. Their is still a fee per cow. This pasture is separated into 4 pastures where they move the cattle. The guy...

OK I understand what your saying. Funny I have been saying the same thing all winter. My jersey will eat almost the same amount of feed as my 2 beef cows together and hardly put on a pound where they will just gain all the weight. My 2 beef cows are mother and daughter. So there is a little...

That's interesting. It's my plan to grow my herd n sell to all the high end restaurants in my area. But with lack of heifers available I would be holding onto most of the heifers I get. What do u mean by lots of milk? I don't see that being a big deal.

Cool thanks guys n yes I don't fully understand the whole grading thing.

Yeah sorry I seen someone calling it that a while back. But yeah hojo Holstein x jersey. Yes I know I got a mix mash of cows but I'm just starting out n buying even beef mix cows is hard around here. So I hope to get everyone breed n trying to figure out my best options. Xcelorator as a hereford...

Thanks guys. It can be a bit confusing what to use to get the best out of my girls. I got 2 hereford mix cows a jersey and her hojo heifer. So I want to try and breed them all AI before they go out to pasture. Here we have government funded pastures to put your cattle on and this past year they...

hey guys. It's been a couple of months since I have been on the forum. Since then the girls have given me 2 beautiful lil bulls. I have one more waiting to calf. Anyways we don't have a provincial AI rep here in Newfoundland but one is coming down in July. I wanted to get all 4 of my girls bred...

So guys found out about this AI rep. He works for semex. I was looking at the hereford bulls. I like xcelorator 594x. My cows are small n I have one heifer to breed next also. So what do ya think?

And guys thanks so much for ur help. I am truly learning more about cattle than I ever thought existed. Here people are raising holestien steers or they got a cow that they just wants to get in calf. From what I know there's next to no one doin what everyone here talks about.

It's funny u say that Ken I was looking at a bull last nite n his stats were pretty good but when I watched the youtube video I wasn't real impressed. I can't really tell what I didn't like but I just didn't like the look of him.

Ok now that makes more sense to me. This is all new to me n none of it made any sense. But thanks now it's looking clearer. I like hereford n that's what I'm looking at. When I'm looking at the stats I look at the BW WW YW does these stats matter more than the rest? Or is it just me

Ok cool I understand the abbreviations more now. I still don't get the numbers. How r they rated on a 1-10 scale? Like what does a BW 6.3 WW 67.8 YW 94.7 I'm just shooting numbers out of my ass but how is it rated. I was looking at one bull that it's YW 109.

So I'm looking at bulls well semen really. I don't understand what some of the stats mean. CE BW WW YW MILK TM MCE SC CW STAY FAT REA MARB so I know BW WW YW means but I don't understand the numbers with them. Like it might something like BW 6.2. I get it if it said BW 85. The bull was 85...

Thanks guys for your ideas. But it's nothing but a struggle here. It really shouldn't be but we produce only 5% of what beef we purchase. We do have a few dairies but they are doing both AI and owning breeding bulls. And I only know of one beef producer here. It's rough situation there are very...

Interesting. That's what I'm wondering. I'm in newfoundland Canada. So just to buy a bull probably out of province and have him shipped here is going to cost me in the range of 3 grand. But if ya had the equipment and set up it could probably pay for itself. There is a lot of small farmers...

Hey everyone. Sorry if this is a stupid question. But what would you have to do to get setup to do any AI? Being a small farm it hardly seems smart to have breeding bull in cost anyways. What do you need to get set up? I'm sure it might pay for itself if it didn't cost an arm and a leg. We use...