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The calf is dead you have lost that money! That's ranching. If you sell her, most likely you won't get much for her. Then you may have to buy one to replace her. Since it was no fault of her own, I would consider keeping her. IF you don't let her get to fat. If you had few others like that...

Rockridge, I could argue with your figures either way a little and still come up with a similiar total figure. Bottom line it is very expensive to raise or buy replacements. This has been argued many times on these sites. My thoughts are that these females need to stay in your herd for a long...

OK, time for my example: I kept 4 heifers from an old cow. These 4 heifers are a result of an embryo transplant. (This was a first for me.) This old cow had good teats & udder until she came up open on her 16 year. I used a sire that is suppose to have thrown excellent uddered daughters...

Yes, thats a good site. I do my own scoring method, combining the two. Could someone with more knowledge explain the heritablity of this? h2 of udder attachment =.2 to .3 and h2 of teat size =.5 I have always know they are just moderatly heritable. I would appreciate a clearer explaination.

I usually do it in the first day or two. But have done it at branding on the smaller ones without any problems. Try NOT to put the band tight against the body. Extra skin between the band the body makes for a smaller wound opening when it falls off. Some calves have a very small scrotum and...

This is one thing a learned early on, Don't worry about what others are doing or what they have! Everyones situtation is different. Everyone came about their money or the lack of it differently. Here is a couple things I try to follow: Shall not covet thy neighbors goods. ( I think it is...

A lot of things to think about here. I once did a 70/30, I provided everything but the cow. I finally switch to a cash lease, its alot easier to split cash than calves. I pay for each bred cow that I start with, whether the calf is dead or alive at the end of the year. Somethings I insisted...

In Montana things usually sold by the acre. But of course they are listed many different ways. In Montana anything sold less than a 160 needs to go thru a subdivision. Many Ranches that are sold may not even list acres, it will proabably say how many cows it will run. Usually higher than it...

Good advice. I wish you would have posted this reminder a couple weeks ago. Easy to do when you are hurrying everything along.

Cyrpressfarms My pet peeve is also bad bagged cows. But you mentioned some of those that you bought you will grow out and if "you don't like them" you will sell them as bred heifers. Well it looks to me like you might have some customers right here on this topic. I just don't want to be that...

For being so expensive to raise, there sure are a lot of them for sale. If it cost me that much to raise a heifer as stated above, then I shouldn't being raising cattle at all. If everybody that raises bred heifers lost money, I guess we would run out of cows. ;-) It must be why we are running...

To answer my own question; I kept about 10% but it needs to be higher just to maintain numbers and do a better job culling. So I'll be buying somemore :(

The heifers that I have raised myself always bred back better than the ones I have bought. Not sure on the reasons for this. Maybe I should start a new thread but I'll ask it here: What is percentage of heifers that you retain from the whole herd number?

Keeping your own heifers, that you know the background on, is "Priceless". I have done it both ways and keeping my own is without a doubt the best. Filling the trucks in the fall, when you got a good price, is so tempting to put every calf on them. Sure there are cases where you can pick the...

Thats a good one :lol: :lol: :lol: I have a friend who is trying to learn about ranching from a book, it is funny on the terms or words they use. It might as well be a different language.

msscamp, thanks for the messages advice :oops: :oops: I strongly agree on the fact that 50/50 will not work Any advice out there on LLC or LLP's?? Can one partner have more control in them?

I think many of you have some experience with this. I started to PM some of you but some reason it won't send them, they are just sitting in my outbox and not sent. May have to try again. I am questioning whether 50/50 would work unless it is well planned out. I almost think it would be...

I am looking for some good info or good examples of what has worked (entities) for a family operation with 2 siblings(example 2 brothers).

My wife can pick a farmer/ranch out of a crowd by the why they complain. You have cheap feed, but heck you are one of us. It's your God given right to complain since you are a farmer. :lol:

There is some good info on the angus website. The optimal milk module will help you make decisions on selecting the right Milk EPD for your cattle. There are also some views and articles in their also. Don't forget the EPD is comparing the difference between animals within the breed. I''ll...