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Does more pounds per acre make up for being docked at the sale barn for small frame size?
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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1824445" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>We're all talking about little cow/big cow... but it's really more about inefficient cow/efficient cow. A bigger cow is more likely to raise a bigger calf, but the ratio of weaned pounds to size of the cow is important. I would buy 30 or so cows from a single source if I could because I was looking for consistent animals with some expectation of similar breeding... and before I bred them to anything they had to put a calf on the ground and show me that their calf would grow. From a February calving season until May when I either AI'd or turned a bull in I was looking at the calf they'd put on the ground. And if the calf didn't make 600 pounds by 205 days the cow and that calf was down the road. And I'd notice if a smaller cow was raising a calf that kept up with a calf from a bigger cow. Out of the 30 cows I'd buy, ten or twelve wouldn't make the cut... and I was buying good cows. They were still good cows when they didn't make the cut. Some heavier didn't make it, and some lighter, all based on what kind of calf they produced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1824445, member: 42463"] We're all talking about little cow/big cow... but it's really more about inefficient cow/efficient cow. A bigger cow is more likely to raise a bigger calf, but the ratio of weaned pounds to size of the cow is important. I would buy 30 or so cows from a single source if I could because I was looking for consistent animals with some expectation of similar breeding... and before I bred them to anything they had to put a calf on the ground and show me that their calf would grow. From a February calving season until May when I either AI'd or turned a bull in I was looking at the calf they'd put on the ground. And if the calf didn't make 600 pounds by 205 days the cow and that calf was down the road. And I'd notice if a smaller cow was raising a calf that kept up with a calf from a bigger cow. Out of the 30 cows I'd buy, ten or twelve wouldn't make the cut... and I was buying good cows. They were still good cows when they didn't make the cut. Some heavier didn't make it, and some lighter, all based on what kind of calf they produced. [/QUOTE]
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