sedrick_hall
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I would like to know what the southern breeders breeding & calving seasons are. Why you chose the time you did? Market price, environment, climate, etc.
I suppose this would be your $16,000 bulls? You actually leave them in the pasture with cows year around? Don't you feel that there would be some advantage in defining your breeding season so that you could have a set of bulls to sell that are close to the same age?txshowmom":26bxo8d1 said:Our Brahmans we run a bull year round.
Don't you feel that there would be some advantage in defining your breeding season so that you could have a set of bulls to sell that are close to the same age?
txshowmom":1dp1cjy7 said:Don't you feel that there would be some advantage in defining your breeding season so that you could have a set of bulls to sell that are close to the same age?
Nope! People buy cattle year round.
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Don't you feel that there would be some advantage in defining your breeding season so that you could have a set of bulls to sell that are close to the same age?
Nope! People buy cattle year round.
Definitely there is an advantage to have a defined breeding season.Even though people buy cattle year round, most ranchers and farmers buy their bulls to breed the cows for a fall or spring calving season. If you have a few stragglers born year round you are missing out on sales to producers that want multiple bulls from the same herd, with similar genetics to give a more uniform calf crop.
The ones that only want one bull still has the opportunity to buy from you.
Nope, what really matters is if it works for the commercial cowman/woman that is buying the bulls.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seems to work well for us and I guess that's all that really matters!
txshowmom":3f9jmu77 said:Our Brahmans we run a bull year round.
txag":z6sn4zkj said:txshowmom":z6sn4zkj said:Our Brahmans we run a bull year round.
do brahmans have epd's? it's a little harder to get a contemporary group if you calve year-round.