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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1818002" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>With prices that high, this may be one of the rare times that you can raise a replacement cheaper than you can buy one. From all the pics you have posted this past year, I see only 2 head I would cull: The belted runt and that Hereford bull, and I would have them at a sale tomorrow. Take the money from selling them, and put some with it if you need to, and buy the best registered Angus bull you can find. at a price you can afford. Get one registered so you know what you are buying, that has EPDs etc. Using a grade, or commercial I guess I should say, bull is like Forest Gump's box of chocolates: You never know what you are gonna get. What will you have....a 30 cow herd? You take a 30 head calf crop by a reg Angus bull, and a 30 head calf crop by a mongrel, and the difference in the money the 2 crops will bring will more than make up the extra cost to buy a reg bull. Or, if ears don't hurt the price where you are, get a reg Brangus. Or split the difference and get an Ultrablack. But don't breed the Jeresys to it. AI them with sexed semen every year for a Br x Jersey heifer. Right now you can get $2k for them at weaning, and when the market heads back down, as it will soon, and they get cheap, you can keep them and put them in your herd to breed to the Ang bull. A win-win situation. Once or twice before they get too old, AI them with sexed Jersey or other dairy breed semen to get your replacements.</p><p></p><p>You have traded around and had some luck with bottle calves as well, and all this has resulted in a right decent set of cows at prices that you can't hardly lose on them. You will end up with a push-button program that will give you more time <em>and</em> money to spend on back of that Harley!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1818002, member: 40587"] With prices that high, this may be one of the rare times that you can raise a replacement cheaper than you can buy one. From all the pics you have posted this past year, I see only 2 head I would cull: The belted runt and that Hereford bull, and I would have them at a sale tomorrow. Take the money from selling them, and put some with it if you need to, and buy the best registered Angus bull you can find. at a price you can afford. Get one registered so you know what you are buying, that has EPDs etc. Using a grade, or commercial I guess I should say, bull is like Forest Gump's box of chocolates: You never know what you are gonna get. What will you have....a 30 cow herd? You take a 30 head calf crop by a reg Angus bull, and a 30 head calf crop by a mongrel, and the difference in the money the 2 crops will bring will more than make up the extra cost to buy a reg bull. Or, if ears don't hurt the price where you are, get a reg Brangus. Or split the difference and get an Ultrablack. But don't breed the Jeresys to it. AI them with sexed semen every year for a Br x Jersey heifer. Right now you can get $2k for them at weaning, and when the market heads back down, as it will soon, and they get cheap, you can keep them and put them in your herd to breed to the Ang bull. A win-win situation. Once or twice before they get too old, AI them with sexed Jersey or other dairy breed semen to get your replacements. You have traded around and had some luck with bottle calves as well, and all this has resulted in a right decent set of cows at prices that you can't hardly lose on them. You will end up with a push-button program that will give you more time [I]and[/I] money to spend on back of that Harley! [/QUOTE]
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