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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1740484" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>I did very well raising replacement heifers by buying smooth/broken mouth cows and getting two or three calves out of them. The cows were successful mothers or they wouldn't have been that age, you could tell what kind of heifers you would get with the proper bull selection, and you could buy for conformation and be selective. Of course you had to spend a lot of time at the sale barn and be ready to buy when the right animal went through, and you had to cull if they didn't perform, but how is that any different from anyone else's herd? I prefered to buy them as they split the calves off in the fall so I could see what kind of calf they had raised, but that wasn't possible as often as I'd have liked. Of course I was looking for a certain type as well so I could get consistent results. But I often had some crayons in the box.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1740484, member: 42463"] I did very well raising replacement heifers by buying smooth/broken mouth cows and getting two or three calves out of them. The cows were successful mothers or they wouldn't have been that age, you could tell what kind of heifers you would get with the proper bull selection, and you could buy for conformation and be selective. Of course you had to spend a lot of time at the sale barn and be ready to buy when the right animal went through, and you had to cull if they didn't perform, but how is that any different from anyone else's herd? I prefered to buy them as they split the calves off in the fall so I could see what kind of calf they had raised, but that wasn't possible as often as I'd have liked. Of course I was looking for a certain type as well so I could get consistent results. But I often had some crayons in the box. [/QUOTE]
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