Dixieangus
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do you cull a cow that takes over a year to calve again from the time the calf hites the ground
What if she's open because of something you did....or did not do???
I think there are couple of you that need to re read your responses , and I would love to look through your calving records. From what you are saying if that a cow calved Feb 1 last year and Feb 2 this year you would cull her because she is over a year
TB if she is open because of something "you" screwed up we all know who should be culled..
Willow Springs":3ni2b5oc said:What if she's open because of something you did....or did not do???
If she is a commercial female you cannot afford to keep an open cow. The money you spend in the time to get her to calve again will most likely never be recovered. Better to sell her and replace with something bred.
With Purebreds it can be different. I have had bulls not work and kept the females, and once "lost" a CIDR in a cow and kept her. Economics are different though. Her cull value can be a long ways from her replacement value. But if it isn't a management problem she's got to go, a BEZ+ said you don't want those genetics in the herd. Mind you I didn't pay $10,000 for the cows in my herd.
bigbull338":3nelyejv said:my bull runs with the cows year round.now if the cow goes longer than i think without calving she will be put on the cull list.i had 2 cows on the list for this fall.an they calved back real quick.so they will get to stay in the herd.
backhoeboogie":203koh8n said:bigbull338":203koh8n said:my bull runs with the cows year round.now if the cow goes longer than i think without calving she will be put on the cull list.i had 2 cows on the list for this fall.an they calved back real quick.so they will get to stay in the herd.
My bull runs with the cows year round too. If it wasn't that way, they'd get bred by a neighbor's bull that I don't want them bred to. I can only assume these folks with a 60 day window have no neighbors. Some of mine calve every 10 1/2 months give or take.
hillsdown":289dsmhu said:Vette, because I calve so early in the year and it is winter , when I do throw the clean up bull in, they are in still a small winter pasture and we own the connecting land so we don't have to worry about intruders. By the time they go out to the big pasture they are all bred or they had should be. We also have a double wire of high tensile to make the fence 7 feet tall and run a strand of hot wire on our side and the neighbors run one on theirs. We all want to keep our cattle in their own pastures so it is just something we do, the one neighbor that was a real pita sold all of his cattle, so that helps as well.
1982vett":5ph3j07r said:hillsdown":5ph3j07r said:Vette, because I calve so early in the year and it is winter , when I do throw the clean up bull in, they are in still a small winter pasture and we own the connecting land so we don't have to worry about intruders. By the time they go out to the big pasture they are all bred or they had should be. We also have a double wire of high tensile to make the fence 7 feet tall and run a strand of hot wire on our side and the neighbors run one on theirs. We all want to keep our cattle in their own pastures so it is just something we do, the one neighbor that was a real pita sold all of his cattle, so that helps as well.
Darn, that just reminded me, I needed to pen a fence crawling bull up today and tell the owner where he was. Really should have been done yesterday afternoon but I forgot all about it. Wouldn't mind him visiting but he seems to be one of them bunk fed 14-month old bulls that matured into a pencil butt fence crawling 2 year old. :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: