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<blockquote data-quote="bullred" data-source="post: 196076" data-attributes="member: 1733"><p>The objective is to get them out of the breeding pool. Some choose to do it immediately. Others will fatten and sale, or breed and sale, etc. Those are business decisions related to an individuals cost/day/cow. For a simplistic example, if your cost to carry a cow is $1.00/day (which is pretty good cost control), and you can get the cow bred in another 30 days then you would have to get back at least $30 more for the cow as bred as oppossed to open. But then there's the opportunity cost of that extra $1.00/day. Would it have been better used put toward a quality cow that you know you're going to get results from? Was that OPPORTUNITY there?</p><p></p><p>Personally, I cull immediately. Not because that's what I've been told I should do, but because for me it makes the best business decision. Knowing those inputs (revenues and expenses) and making business decisions based on sound data is the difference between having an enterprise or a pastime.</p><p></p><p>Notice I didn't use the "H" word! ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bullred, post: 196076, member: 1733"] The objective is to get them out of the breeding pool. Some choose to do it immediately. Others will fatten and sale, or breed and sale, etc. Those are business decisions related to an individuals cost/day/cow. For a simplistic example, if your cost to carry a cow is $1.00/day (which is pretty good cost control), and you can get the cow bred in another 30 days then you would have to get back at least $30 more for the cow as bred as oppossed to open. But then there's the opportunity cost of that extra $1.00/day. Would it have been better used put toward a quality cow that you know you're going to get results from? Was that OPPORTUNITY there? Personally, I cull immediately. Not because that's what I've been told I should do, but because for me it makes the best business decision. Knowing those inputs (revenues and expenses) and making business decisions based on sound data is the difference between having an enterprise or a pastime. Notice I didn't use the "H" word! ;-) [/QUOTE]
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