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<blockquote data-quote="VCC" data-source="post: 925399" data-attributes="member: 6399"><p>What are you majoring in College? I would take the time in college to learn as much as I could about managing your cows, take an AI class, find a club calf operation and see if you can spend some time working there while in college. If you want to start building a herd I would start by developing a solid cow herd. You need some good cows before you start thinking about breeding good calves. Most club cows are Angus based, with Main, Sim, and Char influence. I know by some of your post you have some cows now, I would work on getting a good base, keep the good heifers cull hard and sell the steers as market steers, in the 4 or 5 years it takes to finish college you should have a nice set of cows developed to start breeding club calves. And if you decide to go a different direction you will still have functional cows that can work in any situation, commercial, breeder (as recips) or club.</p><p></p><p>Do your homework, find out which bulls out there a making club calf cows and breed accordingly. Start small and take your time, you have plenty of it ahead of you.</p><p></p><p>I do it for a hobby, if I was going to get into it for a profession I would concentrate on breeding replacements to sell to the club calf producers. If you are concentrating on showsteers you need replacements that can raise a calf.</p><p>It seems that heifers average more $'s than steers in the long run.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VCC, post: 925399, member: 6399"] What are you majoring in College? I would take the time in college to learn as much as I could about managing your cows, take an AI class, find a club calf operation and see if you can spend some time working there while in college. If you want to start building a herd I would start by developing a solid cow herd. You need some good cows before you start thinking about breeding good calves. Most club cows are Angus based, with Main, Sim, and Char influence. I know by some of your post you have some cows now, I would work on getting a good base, keep the good heifers cull hard and sell the steers as market steers, in the 4 or 5 years it takes to finish college you should have a nice set of cows developed to start breeding club calves. And if you decide to go a different direction you will still have functional cows that can work in any situation, commercial, breeder (as recips) or club. Do your homework, find out which bulls out there a making club calf cows and breed accordingly. Start small and take your time, you have plenty of it ahead of you. I do it for a hobby, if I was going to get into it for a profession I would concentrate on breeding replacements to sell to the club calf producers. If you are concentrating on showsteers you need replacements that can raise a calf. It seems that heifers average more $’s than steers in the long run. [/QUOTE]
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