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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1840630" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>This dude only retains one heifer off his cows...the one that is bred to replace her momma. He never retains one of the cross-bred heifers. They are all pre-sold before they are born. These heifers are bred for, and sold fo, r the specific purpose of raising a terminal cross with a 3rd breed bull. He would never even consider retaining one and breeding it back to a Simm or Chi-Ang bull. Like he said, that would be moving backwards as far as maximum heterosis goes., and it would not fit in with what he is doing. Before moving to sexed semen last year, he banded every bull calf born, and would never have considered selling one intact. He is maybe even more adamant than I am, and others, about using a cross-bred bull. </p><p></p><p>This is a niche market he has. One I am sure he spent a lot of money on, buying and selling the cows as he built this herd, til he had the 60 he wanted. And it took a while, I guess, for his reputation to get to the point to where he could have 60 heifers sold each year. He doesn't spend anything on marketing, or a website, advertising, etc. Til last year, he didn't use sexed semen, and about half his crop would have been steers. And back when good replacement heifers might have been $500, the registered cows, the semen, the inputs, etc, costs the same. I even asked him why didn't he run 120 cows instead of 60? Or 200, even? He said because this is how much land I have, and this is the amount of time I have to out into them. Kinda envy the man...being both proud and content with what he does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1840630, member: 40587"] This dude only retains one heifer off his cows...the one that is bred to replace her momma. He never retains one of the cross-bred heifers. They are all pre-sold before they are born. These heifers are bred for, and sold fo, r the specific purpose of raising a terminal cross with a 3rd breed bull. He would never even consider retaining one and breeding it back to a Simm or Chi-Ang bull. Like he said, that would be moving backwards as far as maximum heterosis goes., and it would not fit in with what he is doing. Before moving to sexed semen last year, he banded every bull calf born, and would never have considered selling one intact. He is maybe even more adamant than I am, and others, about using a cross-bred bull. This is a niche market he has. One I am sure he spent a lot of money on, buying and selling the cows as he built this herd, til he had the 60 he wanted. And it took a while, I guess, for his reputation to get to the point to where he could have 60 heifers sold each year. He doesn't spend anything on marketing, or a website, advertising, etc. Til last year, he didn't use sexed semen, and about half his crop would have been steers. And back when good replacement heifers might have been $500, the registered cows, the semen, the inputs, etc, costs the same. I even asked him why didn't he run 120 cows instead of 60? Or 200, even? He said because this is how much land I have, and this is the amount of time I have to out into them. Kinda envy the man...being both proud and content with what he does. [/QUOTE]
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