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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 7798" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Some years ago several local people and a sale barn operator got together and started developing Holstein heifers for dairies. They'd buy the heifers a couple of days old and keep them until they were bred. The idea was that dairies would pay big bucks for bred heifers. Then milk subsidies took a hit and a lot of those Holstein heifers wound up as beef cattle in pastures around here. For several years it was a common occurrence to see Holstein cows in local commercial herds. But they just couldn't cut range conditions. They milk entirely too much to get bred back on grass. They raised wonderful calves...once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 7798, member: 13"] Some years ago several local people and a sale barn operator got together and started developing Holstein heifers for dairies. They'd buy the heifers a couple of days old and keep them until they were bred. The idea was that dairies would pay big bucks for bred heifers. Then milk subsidies took a hit and a lot of those Holstein heifers wound up as beef cattle in pastures around here. For several years it was a common occurrence to see Holstein cows in local commercial herds. But they just couldn't cut range conditions. They milk entirely too much to get bred back on grass. They raised wonderful calves...once. [/QUOTE]
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