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<blockquote data-quote="B&amp;amp;M Farms" data-source="post: 1023575" data-attributes="member: 15666"><p>I raise my own replacements from my best brangus cows but buy them also. You have to be honest with yourself about the cows and bulls your keeping heifers from and what you can buy. If I can sale a 7 month old heifer for $700 to $800 and buy what should be a better one breeding age or short bred for $1500 to $1600, I am going to buy. I will have a calf on the ground in 9 months or so versus 18. If you pay attention, especially when first starting a herd, you can improve your herd drastically using what someone else has already carried a long ways in the direction you want to go. You have to pencil your true cost both ways and see which works for you. Just remember if you keep an heifer you will be carrying her for 2 years before you sale a calf. If you can buy a better heifer for what 2 calfs would bring it makes more sense to me but it depends on the herd you have now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="B&M Farms, post: 1023575, member: 15666"] I raise my own replacements from my best brangus cows but buy them also. You have to be honest with yourself about the cows and bulls your keeping heifers from and what you can buy. If I can sale a 7 month old heifer for $700 to $800 and buy what should be a better one breeding age or short bred for $1500 to $1600, I am going to buy. I will have a calf on the ground in 9 months or so versus 18. If you pay attention, especially when first starting a herd, you can improve your herd drastically using what someone else has already carried a long ways in the direction you want to go. You have to pencil your true cost both ways and see which works for you. Just remember if you keep an heifer you will be carrying her for 2 years before you sale a calf. If you can buy a better heifer for what 2 calfs would bring it makes more sense to me but it depends on the herd you have now. [/QUOTE]
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