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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="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1826974" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>For what it's worth, I've had a few BWF crazies too, the worst cow I've had was a BWF I bought as a heifer. She was bought in a group of 500 weight heifers and she had gotten bred young before I bought her. So I kept her to calve out. she seemed a little flighty but it wasn't until after she had her first calf that she became full aggressive. She would then come after you whether she had a calf or not. I kept her around for a few years because I dreaded trying to load her and could usually work around her just being cautious of where she was and not getting to close. One day she came after me uphill from a longways off and that was the last straw she went down the road the next time she came up to the barn.</p><p>Also had another purchased BWF heifer that I sold in a bred heifer sale. Nothing out of the ordinary while I had her, but the folks that bought her wanted to bring her back for a refund. Apparently she snapped somewhere between the stockyards where the sale was and when they offloaded her, and I agreed to thecrefund. She was unglued at that time and I dreaded to try to load her too. </p><p>They told me later at the stockyards that after selling her she ran out the ring straight into a gate and broke her neck.</p><p>Wild cattle are something we don't want and we try to select for docility above pretty much everything else, because if they are so wild or crazy that you can't be around them then there's too much risk involved in my opinion for anybody to be around them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1826974, member: 24816"] For what it’s worth, I’ve had a few BWF crazies too, the worst cow I’ve had was a BWF I bought as a heifer. She was bought in a group of 500 weight heifers and she had gotten bred young before I bought her. So I kept her to calve out. she seemed a little flighty but it wasn’t until after she had her first calf that she became full aggressive. She would then come after you whether she had a calf or not. I kept her around for a few years because I dreaded trying to load her and could usually work around her just being cautious of where she was and not getting to close. One day she came after me uphill from a longways off and that was the last straw she went down the road the next time she came up to the barn. Also had another purchased BWF heifer that I sold in a bred heifer sale. Nothing out of the ordinary while I had her, but the folks that bought her wanted to bring her back for a refund. Apparently she snapped somewhere between the stockyards where the sale was and when they offloaded her, and I agreed to thecrefund. She was unglued at that time and I dreaded to try to load her too. They told me later at the stockyards that after selling her she ran out the ring straight into a gate and broke her neck. Wild cattle are something we don’t want and we try to select for docility above pretty much everything else, because if they are so wild or crazy that you can’t be around them then there’s too much risk involved in my opinion for anybody to be around them. [/QUOTE]
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