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<blockquote data-quote="J+ Cattle" data-source="post: 1701065" data-attributes="member: 4063"><p>Dave the purpose of weighing the cows and calves is to see which cows are under performing the herd average, not to change the type of cows you have or to change your management style, but to improve the average of the herd. You said that the top end of the steers is 575 but there's 100 or so steers that don't make the top end. What if you could have more steers in the top end and say only 50 head that didn't make the top cut? I think that would be worth some coin. If all of your cows are the same size then maybe all you need to look at is the calf's weaning weight and cull some cows that have the lowest weaning weights for the same contemporary grouping. My original post was to see how many people track this type of information and use it for culling decisions. From your earlier post it seems that you make a visual appraisal of the calves and if a cow has a calf in the dink pen two times she gets culled. It's the same principle but it's executed in a different manner.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J+ Cattle, post: 1701065, member: 4063"] Dave the purpose of weighing the cows and calves is to see which cows are under performing the herd average, not to change the type of cows you have or to change your management style, but to improve the average of the herd. You said that the top end of the steers is 575 but there's 100 or so steers that don't make the top end. What if you could have more steers in the top end and say only 50 head that didn't make the top cut? I think that would be worth some coin. If all of your cows are the same size then maybe all you need to look at is the calf's weaning weight and cull some cows that have the lowest weaning weights for the same contemporary grouping. My original post was to see how many people track this type of information and use it for culling decisions. From your earlier post it seems that you make a visual appraisal of the calves and if a cow has a calf in the dink pen two times she gets culled. It's the same principle but it's executed in a different manner. [/QUOTE]
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