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Advice on building a herd in Central Texas - sale barns vs breeders
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<blockquote data-quote="andybob" data-source="post: 1702070" data-attributes="member: 2703"><p>When I moved to the USA (former Rhodesian), I chose thge breed that I had years of experience with as adapted to the climate (North Carolina) then located breeders through recommendations. I bought three in ones which was the cheapest option, and gave some age structure from the start. Another advantage was that the older cows had been in the original herds for so many years because they were performing well, so fertility etc was a given. Because I chose a minority breed, I began promoting locally to begin building up a future market for bulls, but sold all slaughter stock direct, slaughtered locally and I did the butchering, with a good market amongst the expatriot community to begin with (plenty of demand for boerewors, biltong etc), and was expanding when we left for the UK.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andybob, post: 1702070, member: 2703"] When I moved to the USA (former Rhodesian), I chose thge breed that I had years of experience with as adapted to the climate (North Carolina) then located breeders through recommendations. I bought three in ones which was the cheapest option, and gave some age structure from the start. Another advantage was that the older cows had been in the original herds for so many years because they were performing well, so fertility etc was a given. Because I chose a minority breed, I began promoting locally to begin building up a future market for bulls, but sold all slaughter stock direct, slaughtered locally and I did the butchering, with a good market amongst the expatriot community to begin with (plenty of demand for boerewors, biltong etc), and was expanding when we left for the UK. [/QUOTE]
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