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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1319857" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>If you buy cows that were sorted off for old age, you are certainly getting some longevity, even if they are not exceptional cows. A potential problem here is low cull value.</p><p>If you buy bred heifers you will have more fallout. The upside here is 30 month olds make flavorful freezer beef, and we can more than recoup our $$$.</p><p>Our latest effort is to buy open heifers from an aggressive breeder. He culls heifer calves if their WW epd is not pushing 100#. I am not so keen on extremely high growth and sort off the moderate sized heifer calves to add to our replacement herd. Need to add cow age to our selection criteria.</p><p>Between retained and purchased calves - - we are currently calving out about 25% heifers. This will increase cull'in pressure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1319857, member: 1715"] If you buy cows that were sorted off for old age, you are certainly getting some longevity, even if they are not exceptional cows. A potential problem here is low cull value. If you buy bred heifers you will have more fallout. The upside here is 30 month olds make flavorful freezer beef, and we can more than recoup our $$$. Our latest effort is to buy open heifers from an aggressive breeder. He culls heifer calves if their WW epd is not pushing 100#. I am not so keen on extremely high growth and sort off the moderate sized heifer calves to add to our replacement herd. Need to add cow age to our selection criteria. Between retained and purchased calves - - we are currently calving out about 25% heifers. This will increase cull'in pressure. [/QUOTE]
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