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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 10694"><p>>Ok Jena...thanks for additional input. Guess I was trying to generalize (bad technique) and simplify things...lol. Agree...any female animal that has had sex is no longer a virgin, even if she didn't produce any offspring.</p><p></p><p>My generalization about up to 10,000 head was just that.... Think the largest Longhorn herd around is about 1,500???</p><p></p><p>On a sidebar...there are parts of SW Texas that might require 300 to 500 acres for "range roaming" cattle due to the harsh, semi-desert environment there with 5-10" of natural rainfall annually. On other hand, more "lush" parts of Texas might only require 1 acre per head. At our location in Texas Panhandle, we will probably ultimately run about one 1000# equivalent head per acre (average rainfall about 22-25" a year with bermuda pasture); however, we do a lot of supplemental hay feeding and other stuff and do pasture rotation--with plans to activate our new irrigation system on about 5 acres for small pen, sub-pasture rotation/holding areas this spring. We are primarily into running foundation stock and breeding, thus higher per head cost, but trying to tailor feeding to each's needs.</p><p></p><p>In sum, every breeder and operation has different programs, space, set-ups, pasture & feeding capability, etc. Would guess that NO two operations are alike, yet any number might be "similar" across all people's operations. Can't compare apples to peanuts. And, very true...a rancher with 10 head can do a lot more intensive measuring, weighing, etc., than one with 500 or 1,000 head. If one loses ONE out of a herd of 250, probably no big financial loss...yet, if you lose ONE out of herd of 10 it could hurt a lot more. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 10694"] >Ok Jena...thanks for additional input. Guess I was trying to generalize (bad technique) and simplify things...lol. Agree...any female animal that has had sex is no longer a virgin, even if she didn't produce any offspring. My generalization about up to 10,000 head was just that.... Think the largest Longhorn herd around is about 1,500??? On a sidebar...there are parts of SW Texas that might require 300 to 500 acres for "range roaming" cattle due to the harsh, semi-desert environment there with 5-10" of natural rainfall annually. On other hand, more "lush" parts of Texas might only require 1 acre per head. At our location in Texas Panhandle, we will probably ultimately run about one 1000# equivalent head per acre (average rainfall about 22-25" a year with bermuda pasture); however, we do a lot of supplemental hay feeding and other stuff and do pasture rotation--with plans to activate our new irrigation system on about 5 acres for small pen, sub-pasture rotation/holding areas this spring. We are primarily into running foundation stock and breeding, thus higher per head cost, but trying to tailor feeding to each's needs. In sum, every breeder and operation has different programs, space, set-ups, pasture & feeding capability, etc. Would guess that NO two operations are alike, yet any number might be "similar" across all people's operations. Can't compare apples to peanuts. And, very true...a rancher with 10 head can do a lot more intensive measuring, weighing, etc., than one with 500 or 1,000 head. If one loses ONE out of a herd of 250, probably no big financial loss...yet, if you lose ONE out of herd of 10 it could hurt a lot more. :) [/QUOTE]
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