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Yes, check out this cow right here. Sold for less than $1,000.00 and she's confirmed bred.

https://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1579875#p1579875
 
I'm nothing but a dull-headed whippersnap, but wouldn't you first want to identify your ranch goals so as to know what type of cattle to select? (opening overgrown pasture, cows for viewing pleasure, profitable steer calves, direct-marketed beef etc.)

"Quality" will also have several different meanings depending on what one hopes to accomplish with cows.
 
TennesseeTuxedo said:
Yes, check out this cow right here. Sold for less than $1,000.00 and she's confirmed bred.

https://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1579875#p1579875
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Yeah I just bought a Brangus 1450 lbs for 950 gentle 5 yrs old due to calve any day.
I want quality but reasonable cost
 
MO-Ruminants said:
I'm nothing but a dull-headed whippersnap, but wouldn't you first want to identify your ranch goals so as to know what type of cattle to select? (opening overgrown pasture, cows for viewing pleasure, profitable steer calves, direct-marketed beef etc.)

"Quality" will also have several different meanings depending on what one hopes to accomplish with cows.
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Cow calf operation raise steers to sell at sale barn or privately sell nice heifers my situation at the moment. And I know everyone’s definition of quality is different . But I can’t afford right now to buy 1500-2k cows.
 
Bfields30 said:
MO-Ruminants said:
I'm nothing but a dull-headed whippersnap, but wouldn't you first want to identify your ranch goals so as to know what type of cattle to select? (opening overgrown pasture, cows for viewing pleasure, profitable steer calves, direct-marketed beef etc.)

"Quality" will also have several different meanings depending on what one hopes to accomplish with cows.
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Cow calf operation raise steers to sell at sale barn or privately sell nice heifers my situation at the moment. And I know everyone’s definition of quality is different . But I can’t afford right now to buy 1500-2k cows.
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Then you take the longer route, buy older cows of similar type and buy the best bulls you can afford. Keep the heifer calves and breed up.

My theory is most cows didn't get old unless they were good cows.

Another thought is that if you are short on cash you will need time.

Ownership has a lot to do with quality. ;-)
 
A hedge between both. I'm selling weaned steers and heifers. Not making seedstock. I want a good quality cow. Not a big outfits donor cow or someones bottom culls.
 
littletom said:
A hedge between both. I'm selling weaned steers and heifers. Not making seedstock. I want a good quality cow. Not a big outfits donor cow or someones bottom culls.
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What age do you sell your steers and heifers?
This my first calf crop so I’m trying to see when others sell there’s as well as wean?
 
TennesseeTuxedo said:
I wean steers at roughly 7 months of age and try to background them for a minimum of 45 days before taking them to the sale facility.
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I have calf be 3 months on 25 th of this month and he’s brought his mom down a lot when earliest anyone’s weaned. As well as she doing a great job he’s around 350-400lbs. I don’t want to wean to early My goal is 6 months but i want his mom to be able to put her weight back on.
 
I calve Jan - March and sell the calves at the end of September generally. I am gonna try to watch the market and hold out a little longer this year if it seems prudent, but I may need some cattle money to get me through my pecan harvest so we'll see.

I'm pulling some calves off some young heifers I bought from the barn at about 3 months just to give the mamas time to develop more. It seems to me like someone bred them too young but maybe I can still right the ship. I've seen calves get weaned at 60 days but that's not something I would shoot for, it was more the product of an unfortunate event at that age.
 
jschoolcraft86 said:
I calve Jan - March and sell the calves at the end of September generally. I am gonna try to watch the market and hold out a little longer this year if it seems prudent, but I may need some cattle money to get me through my pecan harvest so we'll see.

I'm pulling some calves off some young heifers I bought from the barn at about 3 months just to give the mamas time to develop more. It seems to me like someone bred them too young but maybe I can still right the ship. I've seen calves get weaned at 60 days but that's not something I would shoot for, it was more the product of an unfortunate event at that age.
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Yeah I have 6 on the ground and 4 left to calve in next month or so.i just didn’t wanna wean him by his self that’s all
 
Bfields30 said:
littletom said:
A hedge between both. I'm selling weaned steers and heifers. Not making seedstock. I want a good quality cow. Not a big outfits donor cow or someones bottom culls.
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What age do you sell your steers and heifers?
This my first calf crop so I’m trying to see when others sell there’s as well as wean?
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Oldest calves are 210 days, youngest are 155ish when we wean. Only wean once in the fall so whatever the cow has produced gets sorted off the same day. Decisions on whether to market or feed are made when they go down the alley the second time as we are sorting loads.

It makes no sense to me for anyone but the feedlot to vaccinate pre weaning or to wean calves for 45 to 60 days before selling. If we do all that some suggests we can soon have another $125 invested in a calf that has lost his baby fat and likely didn’t gain much in those short 6 weeks. Until feedlots start offering a 25 cent premium over the premium we already receive for our calves straight off the cow I don’t believe we will be doing much other than we do for them.
 
Bfields30 said:
TennesseeTuxedo said:
I wean steers at roughly 7 months of age and try to background them for a minimum of 45 days before taking them to the sale facility.
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I have calf be 3 months on 25 th of this month and he’s brought his mom down a lot when earliest anyone’s weaned. As well as she doing a great job he’s around 350-400lbs. I don’t want to wean to early My goal is 6 months but i want his mom to be able to put her weight back on.
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A cow should be able to feed a calf to 200 days, and breed back if she has enough grass to help her along. If she can't do that job and gain back over the dry period she needs a new address.
Don't make excuses for any of them..
 
gcreekrch said:
Bfields30 said:
TennesseeTuxedo said:
I wean steers at roughly 7 months of age and try to background them for a minimum of 45 days before taking them to the sale facility.
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I have calf be 3 months on 25 th of this month and he’s brought his mom down a lot when earliest anyone’s weaned. As well as she doing a great job he’s around 350-400lbs. I don’t want to wean to early My goal is 6 months but i want his mom to be able to put her weight back on.
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A cow should be able to feed a calf to 200 days, and breed back if she has enough grass to help her along. If she can't do that job and gain back over the dry period she needs a new address.
Don't make excuses for any of them..
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and if she can’t do that should I sell her he turned 3 months on the 25th of May and he’s easily 350-400lbs on the light side but she’s doing a good job raising him his dad was a Brahman and mom is brangus. Everyone that I asked about advice for keeping him on and weaning told me might should wean him since he’s so big. But I’m just asking around for opinions.
 
If she can get a calf to 350-400 lbs in 90 days, I'll buy her and all her offspring , just name your price.
 
Bfields30 said:
gcreekrch said:
Bfields30 said:
I have calf be 3 months on 25 th of this month and he’s brought his mom down a lot when earliest anyone’s weaned. As well as she doing a great job he’s around 350-400lbs. I don’t want to wean to early My goal is 6 months but i want his mom to be able to put her weight back on.
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A cow should be able to feed a calf to 200 days, and breed back if she has enough grass to help her along. If she can't do that job and gain back over the dry period she needs a new address.
Don't make excuses for any of them..
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and if she can’t do that should I sell her he turned 3 months on the 25th of May and he’s easily 350-400lbs on the light side but she’s doing a good job raising him his dad was a Brahman and mom is brangus. Everyone that I asked about advice for keeping him on and weaning told me might should wean him since he’s so big. But I’m just asking around for opinions.
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We can sometimes get so carried away with production that we lose sight of efficiency.

If she can do both, breed back and raise a huge calf every year without having to be managed separately, you will want to duplicate her with her heifers or keep a bull calf out of her. Most times here, the highly productive young cows weed themselves out before they turn 5.
 

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