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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1769067" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>It is 100% DEFINITE that using black bulls on Corriente cows is THE MOST profitable operation you can have. My partner and I have a little over 200 acres of old-cut over timber, that is our quail and rabbit hunting preserve. it is fenced in with 5 stands of Motto barb wire. it is covered in Kudzu, Johnson grass, broon sage, honey suckle and boack berry thickets. We have for years, ran 120- give or take, Corr cows on it. We have $250-$300 MAYBE in each one. The only inputs we have each year, are salt and n minerals. No worming, vaccination, pesticides..nothing. Each Easter we put in 6-8 bulls. started out with angus and last few years used Brangus and/or Ultrablack. Pull the bulls Memorial weekend, and put in the Corr bull for cleanup til July 4th. We get 110-120 polled, black calves all born in February. We usually get no more than 10, some years no, corr calves, in March. We keep the heifers and rope the steers. After they have all calved, we round them up and tag the calves and band or cut the bull calves. don't see them again til we round them up in August and take them to the sale. Smallest one we ever weaned as a heifer at 435, and largest was a steer couple of years ago that was 520-something. NO ONE can tell these from any other angus cross calf at weaning age, and they bring what other black calves do at the sale. There is NO WAY you can buy 120 other cows for $30k. and no way you can make more money off of $30k of any other breed. We have $250-$300 cows weaning off $600-$750 claves every year. But,. let's say these 120 calves only brought a dollar a pound. That would still be $60k or better in calf sales, from $30k worth of cows with no inputs. There is NO other breed that yield a calf that sells for 2 -3 times what the cow costs, with ZERO inputs and labor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1769067, member: 40587"] It is 100% DEFINITE that using black bulls on Corriente cows is THE MOST profitable operation you can have. My partner and I have a little over 200 acres of old-cut over timber, that is our quail and rabbit hunting preserve. it is fenced in with 5 stands of Motto barb wire. it is covered in Kudzu, Johnson grass, broon sage, honey suckle and boack berry thickets. We have for years, ran 120- give or take, Corr cows on it. We have $250-$300 MAYBE in each one. The only inputs we have each year, are salt and n minerals. No worming, vaccination, pesticides..nothing. Each Easter we put in 6-8 bulls. started out with angus and last few years used Brangus and/or Ultrablack. Pull the bulls Memorial weekend, and put in the Corr bull for cleanup til July 4th. We get 110-120 polled, black calves all born in February. We usually get no more than 10, some years no, corr calves, in March. We keep the heifers and rope the steers. After they have all calved, we round them up and tag the calves and band or cut the bull calves. don't see them again til we round them up in August and take them to the sale. Smallest one we ever weaned as a heifer at 435, and largest was a steer couple of years ago that was 520-something. NO ONE can tell these from any other angus cross calf at weaning age, and they bring what other black calves do at the sale. There is NO WAY you can buy 120 other cows for $30k. and no way you can make more money off of $30k of any other breed. We have $250-$300 cows weaning off $600-$750 claves every year. But,. let's say these 120 calves only brought a dollar a pound. That would still be $60k or better in calf sales, from $30k worth of cows with no inputs. There is NO other breed that yield a calf that sells for 2 -3 times what the cow costs, with ZERO inputs and labor. [/QUOTE]
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