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<blockquote data-quote="Jafruech" data-source="post: 1660817" data-attributes="member: 24025"><p>I personally think culling by age is a very poor management decision. I don't care if she's 4 or 20. If she maintains condition and conformation, breeds in the first 2 cycles, etc Then she stays. If she doesn't she's gone regardless of age.</p><p></p><p>I have an cow that's 18 years old now. She is the first one to calve, first one to breed back, and she weans a 600lb calf pretty consistently. She maintains condition / is easy fleshing, gets fat on crappy forage, gains condition back quickly after calving and the udders are still good. I keep every heifer out of her. I have terrible forage quality and not much of it. It improves every year with proper management, but on years like this were I got 5.5 in of rainfall it's pretty bad. </p><p></p><p>If I were to have sold her at 10 years as others suggest, I would have lost a LOT of money on her. Even if I finally sell her as open one day, I will have made 10 times what I have selling her based off of age.</p><p></p><p>You can cull based off of characteristics that are common with aging cows...but to cull a cow that is making you money, breeding and maintaining condition...seems like tossing money down the toilet. I will sell other cows to keep more heifers out of her if I have to, if it comes down to the choice. If you sell at 10 years you're tossing away a lot of valuable metrics/data about what you are breeding and keeping in your herd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jafruech, post: 1660817, member: 24025"] I personally think culling by age is a very poor management decision. I don't care if she's 4 or 20. If she maintains condition and conformation, breeds in the first 2 cycles, etc Then she stays. If she doesn't she's gone regardless of age. I have an cow that's 18 years old now. She is the first one to calve, first one to breed back, and she weans a 600lb calf pretty consistently. She maintains condition / is easy fleshing, gets fat on crappy forage, gains condition back quickly after calving and the udders are still good. I keep every heifer out of her. I have terrible forage quality and not much of it. It improves every year with proper management, but on years like this were I got 5.5 in of rainfall it's pretty bad. If I were to have sold her at 10 years as others suggest, I would have lost a LOT of money on her. Even if I finally sell her as open one day, I will have made 10 times what I have selling her based off of age. You can cull based off of characteristics that are common with aging cows...but to cull a cow that is making you money, breeding and maintaining condition...seems like tossing money down the toilet. I will sell other cows to keep more heifers out of her if I have to, if it comes down to the choice. If you sell at 10 years you're tossing away a lot of valuable metrics/data about what you are breeding and keeping in your herd. [/QUOTE]
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