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<blockquote data-quote="dph" data-source="post: 172159" data-attributes="member: 2112"><p>Here is an example of what I've been getting out of this board, right or wrong. We use to cull all open cows (which we will keep doing) but we also use to cull any cow with a dead calf in the spring. Didn't amount to many, but still.... Additionally we would get the calf out of and then cull any cow developing a subpar bag or broken mouthed. Someone on here did some figuring on what the cow that lost her calf would bring $ wise compared to a replacement. And the idea was that keeping her without a calf for a year was cheaper by several hundred dollars than keeping a replacement back for her at the current prices. Really made us re-examine how we were doing things. I am not sure how much blame is the cows if the calf doesn't make it. So as long as she got bred in quick order, and has been doing a good job for us in the past, I think we will give that cow a second shot this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dph, post: 172159, member: 2112"] Here is an example of what I've been getting out of this board, right or wrong. We use to cull all open cows (which we will keep doing) but we also use to cull any cow with a dead calf in the spring. Didn't amount to many, but still.... Additionally we would get the calf out of and then cull any cow developing a subpar bag or broken mouthed. Someone on here did some figuring on what the cow that lost her calf would bring $ wise compared to a replacement. And the idea was that keeping her without a calf for a year was cheaper by several hundred dollars than keeping a replacement back for her at the current prices. Really made us re-examine how we were doing things. I am not sure how much blame is the cows if the calf doesn't make it. So as long as she got bred in quick order, and has been doing a good job for us in the past, I think we will give that cow a second shot this year. [/QUOTE]
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