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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1261411" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>I was thinking about this whole thing yesterday as I watched a really nice cow outside my house. After three calves she came up empty for some reason. You guys would have said send her away, but I kept her. Her then yearling became a really productive young cow, now carrying her third and the best upcoming two-year-old this season is her next daughter, the one I wouldn't have had if I'd not kept the cow. </p><p></p><p>I think it all depends on what you're doing, still building the lines you want or making everyone work for their keep in every year and those who drop out don't matter. As often as not I've lost on keeping cows like that, hoping they'll come right, but the ones I have kept which worked have more than proved the worth of taking the risk, so I still consider it pretty carefully when it happens. </p><p></p><p>In both your scenarios I tend to keep for the time being, but the strike goes against the ones which don't carry and that influences how I view their daughters too, if there's ever an issue there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1261411, member: 5956"] I was thinking about this whole thing yesterday as I watched a really nice cow outside my house. After three calves she came up empty for some reason. You guys would have said send her away, but I kept her. Her then yearling became a really productive young cow, now carrying her third and the best upcoming two-year-old this season is her next daughter, the one I wouldn't have had if I'd not kept the cow. I think it all depends on what you're doing, still building the lines you want or making everyone work for their keep in every year and those who drop out don't matter. As often as not I've lost on keeping cows like that, hoping they'll come right, but the ones I have kept which worked have more than proved the worth of taking the risk, so I still consider it pretty carefully when it happens. In both your scenarios I tend to keep for the time being, but the strike goes against the ones which don't carry and that influences how I view their daughters too, if there's ever an issue there. [/QUOTE]
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