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<blockquote data-quote="cypressfarms" data-source="post: 799497" data-attributes="member: 2653"><p>Around here the stockyard sells everything as singles; unless they are having a special sale (like a replacement heifer sale, when they may sell in lots of five or ten)</p><p></p><p>I'm still waiting for someone to convince me that by having the bull in year round you will not be able to tell which cows are more fertile. It's common sense to me; If you only put the bull in for a specific time, you never give those super fertile cows a chance to "move up". </p><p></p><p>One solution to calving year round is to sell calves at the same time (read spring here when the prices are higher). Since the stockyards here sell singles you'll do fine with the 450 pounder or the 700 pounder.</p><p></p><p>I'm glad this has spurred some discussion, though. Hopefully caused some pause to think. Where I'm located I would have no problem calving at any month. Grass for us is almost a year round thing (thank God!). LIke Caustic I only have to hay for 3 months give or take a few weeks. I'll be collecting data over the next several years on this. I'm intentionally gonna move cows up to have summer calves and see how they do. I do have a brangus based herd, however, so the heat may not be a problem for me as it would for others. By 2012 I'll be running a hereford bull on brangus cows to make super baldies. They should respond well regardless of the month they are born. The only disadvantage I could really see is when a cow calves early winter. Then she would be milking the hardest when I'm only giving hay. BY late winter they can graze ryegrass, but there are a couple of months when they go on hay alone. That may reduce the calves size by the moma having less milk available.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cypressfarms, post: 799497, member: 2653"] Around here the stockyard sells everything as singles; unless they are having a special sale (like a replacement heifer sale, when they may sell in lots of five or ten) I'm still waiting for someone to convince me that by having the bull in year round you will not be able to tell which cows are more fertile. It's common sense to me; If you only put the bull in for a specific time, you never give those super fertile cows a chance to "move up". One solution to calving year round is to sell calves at the same time (read spring here when the prices are higher). Since the stockyards here sell singles you'll do fine with the 450 pounder or the 700 pounder. I'm glad this has spurred some discussion, though. Hopefully caused some pause to think. Where I'm located I would have no problem calving at any month. Grass for us is almost a year round thing (thank God!). LIke Caustic I only have to hay for 3 months give or take a few weeks. I'll be collecting data over the next several years on this. I'm intentionally gonna move cows up to have summer calves and see how they do. I do have a brangus based herd, however, so the heat may not be a problem for me as it would for others. By 2012 I'll be running a hereford bull on brangus cows to make super baldies. They should respond well regardless of the month they are born. The only disadvantage I could really see is when a cow calves early winter. Then she would be milking the hardest when I'm only giving hay. BY late winter they can graze ryegrass, but there are a couple of months when they go on hay alone. That may reduce the calves size by the moma having less milk available. [/QUOTE]
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