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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 776715" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>Well, the plan when we bred the cow was that we might keep any bull calf for a bull. But, while BW doesn't concern me a whole lot, 130 lbs is a little bigger than I am comfortable with breeding a bunch of cows to. Add that to the fact that this cow probably has the highest BW average in our herd, and he got fixed in a hurry. Our avg BW on the herd is usually 90-95 lbs and I'm not afraid of 100 - 115 lb BW's, but we kinda thought that this might be pushing things a little. </p><p></p><p>However, we kept his full sister, and calved her for the first time this year, 70 lb calf that is growing quite nicely. We'll see what she does in the future. It is one thing to have a couple cows that have big BW's and manage to do it by themselves, it is quite another to breed a huge BW bull to a bunch of cows that may or may not be able to handle that sort of thing. I don't want to be helping out 30 or 40 cows because we just pushed things a little too far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 776715, member: 2308"] Well, the plan when we bred the cow was that we might keep any bull calf for a bull. But, while BW doesn't concern me a whole lot, 130 lbs is a little bigger than I am comfortable with breeding a bunch of cows to. Add that to the fact that this cow probably has the highest BW average in our herd, and he got fixed in a hurry. Our avg BW on the herd is usually 90-95 lbs and I'm not afraid of 100 - 115 lb BW's, but we kinda thought that this might be pushing things a little. However, we kept his full sister, and calved her for the first time this year, 70 lb calf that is growing quite nicely. We'll see what she does in the future. It is one thing to have a couple cows that have big BW's and manage to do it by themselves, it is quite another to breed a huge BW bull to a bunch of cows that may or may not be able to handle that sort of thing. I don't want to be helping out 30 or 40 cows because we just pushed things a little too far. [/QUOTE]
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