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<blockquote data-quote="purecountry" data-source="post: 713257" data-attributes="member: 2306"><p>This may be the most senseless thread I've ever read. It reads like my kids sound when they're fighting over toys. If any of you are making money at you're preferred systems, congrats. </p><p></p><p>As for bulls, my preference is always bulls that are tested on forage coming from a program very similar to my own, which is hard to find. Our home raised Galloway bulls are meeting expectations about as good as anything we've had before. Some that we've bought have been a real flop. Differences within breeds VS between breeds, right?</p><p></p><p>We don't breed a bull to anything until he's 2, since ours are May/June calves. But at 2, I expect a bull to cover 30-40 cows and maintain his condition. If he doesn't, he gets sold. He's obviously not going to advance us closer to our goals. It's taken a few years, but we now raise bulls that do it, and every time I buy in a bull I seem to be disappointed in the way they lose condition. I bought a bull from a guy last winter who had sold his cows. I own the mother of this bull, and have several paternal sisters to him that are some of my very best. I figured it was a sure thing, until he went out with cows. He went from fat, shiny and sassy to thin, dull and depressing in 60 days. Another one bites the dust. Ya just never know......unless you linebreed 'em. ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="purecountry, post: 713257, member: 2306"] This may be the most senseless thread I've ever read. It reads like my kids sound when they're fighting over toys. If any of you are making money at you're preferred systems, congrats. As for bulls, my preference is always bulls that are tested on forage coming from a program very similar to my own, which is hard to find. Our home raised Galloway bulls are meeting expectations about as good as anything we've had before. Some that we've bought have been a real flop. Differences within breeds VS between breeds, right? We don't breed a bull to anything until he's 2, since ours are May/June calves. But at 2, I expect a bull to cover 30-40 cows and maintain his condition. If he doesn't, he gets sold. He's obviously not going to advance us closer to our goals. It's taken a few years, but we now raise bulls that do it, and every time I buy in a bull I seem to be disappointed in the way they lose condition. I bought a bull from a guy last winter who had sold his cows. I own the mother of this bull, and have several paternal sisters to him that are some of my very best. I figured it was a sure thing, until he went out with cows. He went from fat, shiny and sassy to thin, dull and depressing in 60 days. Another one bites the dust. Ya just never know......unless you linebreed 'em. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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