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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1765944" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>My heifers represent the best genetics in my herd - IF - I am truly a BREEDER. I would never dream of "throwing away" my first calf heifers' daughters. Everything is relative. Yes, my cows are bigger than what you are shooting for, but they also have and raise bigger calves.</p><p>I don't breed my heifers to a "heifer bull" - what a waste. I raise my heifers to their potential growth and breed them to a decent CE rated bull, but also a bull with growth - called a "spread" bull. In this industry, we CAN have our cake and eat it too. Through breeder info and breed associations providing data back, we have developed a lot of CE/growth bulls. I expect my heifers to have an 80-90# calf - sometimes bigger - on their own. I don't push my heifers, but I winter them on 5#/hd/day whole shell corn, great hay and great mineral and top notch health program. At the high price of WSC today, that's about $125 grain cost to get my heifers to their potential growth for breeding. They are lean but grown out at breeding time - bred to calve at 23 to 24 months of age. They do a lot of growing in the summer on lush pastures.</p><p>Every program is different, but I cannot see putting 2 years in a heifer and not planning to utilize her daughters as replacements. Better off selling all calves - males & females - and plan on buying all your replacements as bred cows, so you can use a great walking bull.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1765944, member: 968"] My heifers represent the best genetics in my herd - IF - I am truly a BREEDER. I would never dream of "throwing away" my first calf heifers' daughters. Everything is relative. Yes, my cows are bigger than what you are shooting for, but they also have and raise bigger calves. I don't breed my heifers to a "heifer bull" - what a waste. I raise my heifers to their potential growth and breed them to a decent CE rated bull, but also a bull with growth - called a "spread" bull. In this industry, we CAN have our cake and eat it too. Through breeder info and breed associations providing data back, we have developed a lot of CE/growth bulls. I expect my heifers to have an 80-90# calf - sometimes bigger - on their own. I don't push my heifers, but I winter them on 5#/hd/day whole shell corn, great hay and great mineral and top notch health program. At the high price of WSC today, that's about $125 grain cost to get my heifers to their potential growth for breeding. They are lean but grown out at breeding time - bred to calve at 23 to 24 months of age. They do a lot of growing in the summer on lush pastures. Every program is different, but I cannot see putting 2 years in a heifer and not planning to utilize her daughters as replacements. Better off selling all calves - males & females - and plan on buying all your replacements as bred cows, so you can use a great walking bull. [/QUOTE]
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