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<blockquote data-quote="gizmom" data-source="post: 1261480" data-attributes="member: 13402"><p>I really think culling has a whole lot to do with where you are in your individual program at the time you preg check. I don't think we can give you a cull don't cull opinion because we don't know all the details of where you are in your program. </p><p></p><p>A good example I had 6 cows on the cull list for this year three due to age two of them are 14 one is 15 the other three being culled for feet. All six are bred. When we preg checked we had 20 opens, found our bull had gone bad during the breeding season. Yes he was semen checked prior to putting him in, yes we called ourselves watching we just plan missed it. Now those six cows that were going to be culled are staying, the three with bad feet the calves will be considered terminal I don't want to keep anything out of them, the old girls will get some TLC in order to get another calf for cash flow. We picked through the opens sent some to town based on normal criteria but we sure couldn't afford to send all of them to town due to a bull failure. We now have a bull in with them we will give them 60 days them pull the bull re check the cows and have for the first time in 25 years spring calves. This was a bull failure not a cow failure, but because of it these cows will be sold with a calf at side in the spring. Makes me sick but part of it, and why I have to say culling decisions have to be based on where you are in your individual program. To make it suck even more we planned to send the bull to be collected as soon as we pulled him this year, we are in hopes that when we recheck him he will be ok, if so I am still going to have him collected.</p><p></p><p>gizmom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmom, post: 1261480, member: 13402"] I really think culling has a whole lot to do with where you are in your individual program at the time you preg check. I don't think we can give you a cull don't cull opinion because we don't know all the details of where you are in your program. A good example I had 6 cows on the cull list for this year three due to age two of them are 14 one is 15 the other three being culled for feet. All six are bred. When we preg checked we had 20 opens, found our bull had gone bad during the breeding season. Yes he was semen checked prior to putting him in, yes we called ourselves watching we just plan missed it. Now those six cows that were going to be culled are staying, the three with bad feet the calves will be considered terminal I don't want to keep anything out of them, the old girls will get some TLC in order to get another calf for cash flow. We picked through the opens sent some to town based on normal criteria but we sure couldn't afford to send all of them to town due to a bull failure. We now have a bull in with them we will give them 60 days them pull the bull re check the cows and have for the first time in 25 years spring calves. This was a bull failure not a cow failure, but because of it these cows will be sold with a calf at side in the spring. Makes me sick but part of it, and why I have to say culling decisions have to be based on where you are in your individual program. To make it suck even more we planned to send the bull to be collected as soon as we pulled him this year, we are in hopes that when we recheck him he will be ok, if so I am still going to have him collected. gizmom [/QUOTE]
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