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From experience you can breed a FB lowline cow to a low BW angus and be just fine. Brother in law had some out of Special Focus (or at least that's what I thought he said) a couple years ago. Father in law has some 3/4 LL cows that have been bred to a Simi and Char bulls and had no problem...

My in laws have a handful of them, some pure and some crosses. The pures they have been keeping pure and selling the steers and second cut heifers for locker beef and been getting along good with them. The good heifers either get kept back or sold as show/breeding stock. The beef that we've...

Weight is important, but calf shape is probably at least as important if not more so. Take an 85# super blocky clubby deal and you can have troubles on a large % of cows. I never have been around any if the OLD school chi cattle, but was told that the calves would weigh 120#, but they were...

Did anybody go to this? Hot sale? Did they sell everything or just the stock?

You said that you have access to a 50 acre pasture and a 25 acre one, are either of these at the home place? How far apart are they from one and other? I ask because if they are across the fence or road from one and other then you can almost manage them as one unit. However if they are more...

What is the plan for the steers and the heifers that end up in the not good enough pen? Are you going to feed them, sell as calves, yearlings? Where are you going to sell them? With that what sells well at that barn? Do you have your heart set on making your own replacements in house? I...

As the guy sitting on the fence giving advice to my brother-in-law about his Lowlines I can share my insights. They have 5 pb cows that they are running a pb bull on and there are 3 %(75% ish) cows that are running with the commercials, they were AIed to a LBW Angus then cleaned up with Simi...

First let me say that I know nothing about raising cattle in SC. Second I know nothing about the market there. Third I don't know anything about what's available for bulls/breeds. And fourth we don't know much about your management practices. With all of that said my advice would be the...

Why dump the recips after one round of ET calves? You've gone through the screwing around to get them set up and to get the program going. Also, you will have a lag year in the middle that you don't have any premium cattle to sell. So, why not buy another set of eggs and do it again? As I...

Talk to Dr Ron Hansen at the University of Neb. I've seen his presentation a couple of times and it's pretty heavy stuff, but he's seen many situations and helped a lot of people. I've tried to get several people to go talk to him (both professional relationships and personal) and nobody...

In my opinion a "true breeder" is someone who has a goal in mind and is headed directly in that direction. While linebreeding is not a must, most likely that is a piece of it. I would want their herd prefix on the majority of the animals in the pedigree. I look at my dad, he's really good at...

We have a handful of 3/4 to pb lowline cows running with the commercials. 3/4s were bred to lbw angus bull and spit the calve right out this year, think they'll fit in with the small end of commercials. Pures were bred pure for the bil's hobby deal. Easy keeping, not near as hard on stuff due...

I raise show pigs also so we are always using unproven young sires to try to raise the next one. A lot of them are priced somewhere between stupid and insane. One thing I can say is that the ones that are supposed to be the next big thing and get priced at $500 a dose only get used in the...

Looks like he's an '08, what has he done? There should be daughters dropping calves and sons breeding cows or cut and through the feedlot. That would be what I would ask when we're talking about a 5 year old bull.

High quality row crop (200 bu/ac corn possible) Purchase 9-12,000 Rent 350-550, a lot of the land lords are getting 100% of the rent up front and some of those big numbers are for 2+ year leases Pasture and hay ground, there isn't any left. Everything that could be tilled up and farmed, and...

There are several different types of FSA loans as I'm sure that you have learned. The one that I know of that you can get the super cheap interest on is the 5-45-50 program to buy land. You put down 5% of the purchase price, a "commercial" bank lends you 50% at their rates and the gov't will...

Are you managing those heifers away from the main herd now? If so they would probably be the easiest. For many of the synch programs to work the cows need to be at least 45-60 days post calving, so if you are going to use cows, do the ones that calved early.

While AI is not as good as a bull (usually) you can get the cows bred to a really good bull for $50/head, including set up and paying the tech. If your bull is depreciating by $500/year plus the cost of feed it gets really close to a break even for much higher quality genetics. Also this way...

Why not just AI a handful of cows Wagyu? I think that the semen is stocked by several of the major companies. Breed 10 @ 50% conception you'll get 5 calves, eat the steers and keep the heifers to make 1/4 blood calves.

My brother in law and father in law are super motivated to get into the mini cattle business, not sure why, and they are looking at some lowlines. Since I have any cattle experience I have been drafted as the resident "expert" on the project, but I know I don't know diddly poo about these...