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<blockquote data-quote="DOC HARRIS" data-source="post: 567370" data-attributes="member: 1683"><p>Consider these "given" facts:</p><p></p><p>To "keep him around as a backup, or just to see how he will turn out" is a poor business decision. He will cost you money in feed, space, hay, and effort for not a profitable benefit. He is a crossbred bull with questionable genetics, questionable ancestory, and questionable future (one which has no verifiable background statistics to justify your retaining him.) It is inadvisable to retain a bull calf (particularly one which has no better phenotype than this one, and NO EPD's to reflect his potential as a herd bull), which you DON'T need, without KNOWING everything possible about his potential.</p><p></p><p>You said that you just bought a Homozygous Black Simmental bull, and that you have only 20 cows. My suggestion to you would be to really determine what kind of beef operation you want to engage in, and focus on <em>that</em> target, instead of playing "Button, button, who's got the button" with unknown Genetics, and perhaps sell this "unknown" commodity and several of your lesser quality cows, and buy some cows which will compliment your new bull! That way, you will have a reasonably good expectation of realizing a PROFIT from your beef cattle operation - as long as you have a practical goal in mind, and focus on the realities of practical decisions.</p><p></p><p>Sell this calf. </p><p></p><p>Welcome to the CattleToday Forum!</p><p></p><p>DOC HARRIS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DOC HARRIS, post: 567370, member: 1683"] Consider these "given" facts: To "keep him around as a backup, or just to see how he will turn out" is a poor business decision. He will cost you money in feed, space, hay, and effort for not a profitable benefit. He is a crossbred bull with questionable genetics, questionable ancestory, and questionable future (one which has no verifiable background statistics to justify your retaining him.) It is inadvisable to retain a bull calf (particularly one which has no better phenotype than this one, and NO EPD's to reflect his potential as a herd bull), which you DON'T need, without KNOWING everything possible about his potential. You said that you just bought a Homozygous Black Simmental bull, and that you have only 20 cows. My suggestion to you would be to really determine what kind of beef operation you want to engage in, and focus on [i]that[/i] target, instead of playing "Button, button, who's got the button" with unknown Genetics, and perhaps sell this "unknown" commodity and several of your lesser quality cows, and buy some cows which will compliment your new bull! That way, you will have a reasonably good expectation of realizing a PROFIT from your beef cattle operation - as long as you have a practical goal in mind, and focus on the realities of practical decisions. Sell this calf. Welcome to the CattleToday Forum! DOC HARRIS [/QUOTE]
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