Intresting. Are you a cow calf operation?glover36":1vdusv4i said:no only months we try to avoid is late july early august
Intresting. Are you a cow calf operation?glover36":1vdusv4i said:no only months we try to avoid is late july early august
How much does he get for them?
MikeC":3aitzap1 said:How much does he get for them?
Of course it depends on the year and the demand, but I would say he gets as much as many purebred herds are getting for theirs.
glover36":1h6qup1v said:yes we are we only do it this way because we have dairy to so they go all year round so mitgh as well breed with them
glover36":x16qngef said:both we have a beef barn and a dairy barn raise calves till about 600 pounds if good enough for cows we keep everything else goes
Wewild":2cdxw9cm said:MikeC":2cdxw9cm said:How much does he get for them?
Of course it depends on the year and the demand, but I would say he gets as much as many purebred herds are getting for theirs.
I wouldn't think the regular cattleman is buying them then????
Wewild":2cbp656a said:Scotty":2cbp656a said:The calve is alive and healthy, or they do not get paid.
I still don't understand.
MikeC":77n3umex said:Yep. Raising replacement heifers is something everyone can't do for various reasons. You might be surprised what a set of good springing commercial heifers can bring around here.
glover36":1h0r77cf said:charolais x simmental cows, red angus cows, shorthorn cows, pure simmental, pure charolais, and a couple hereford simmentals
MikeC":3vmo49ep said:Wewild":3vmo49ep said:MikeC":3vmo49ep said:I PROMISE you I can breed more cows in a day than your "good" bull can too! ;-)
Sure you can. He has to build back up. He don't have a load of straws.
Do you think it's best to A.I. a cow calf operation?
1-That's exactly what I meant about the bull. ;-)
2-It all depends on where your goals lie. The time involved wouldn't make it feasible for some.
Most of the bigger commercial guys that AI that I know are selling bred and virgin heifers for replacements. They receive quite a few more dollars than the feeder market brings on average.
There's a guy about 20 miles from me that synchs and breeds over 300 heifers every year. People fight for his commercial replacements.
Dairy cows wouldn't be where they are today without AI for sure.
Victoria":2aajxuv0 said:We've never AI'd a commercial cow and I actually agree that I don't see the need to for our operation. We just got into AI'ing when we got into purebreds. That said if someone wants to use it for their operation and feel that it works for them after they put the pen to the paper why would anyone else care? This is not the only post in the genre of putting down others ways of doing things and I just don't get why people feel the need to call people names and put them down because they do things differently. Everyone has their reasons for running their operations the way they do and I could see questioning someone's reasons, never know what you will learn (or what they will learn) but I just don't get the personal attacks that I see on these boards so often.
OK, fire away.
badroute":o7u2ye1t said:I AI around 200 a year. I AI my heifers and coming 3's. The reason I do this is to improve and keep good females in the herd. It might not be all that profitable when the pencil is put to it but being able to produce good females is hard to put a dollar amount on. And I also do it all myself except I hire a few cowboys to help me heat detect and get cattle in for a week or so.