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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1190745" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I work it a lot like Dun, with the exception of not AIing heifers. The bull is turned out with the cows May 25th for a beginning of march calving season start. If you preg check your cows in the fall, I think leaving him in for 45-60 days is fine, however, if you don't preg check, you're still better off with a late calf than none at all and having fed the cow through the winter (as lucky7chief just said). Our bull stays with the cows up until the beginning of calving season, when he gets put with steers or a late cow.</p><p></p><p>We will breed a bull to his daughter without a second though, though the resulting daughters are *typically* not retained.. We've made 2 exceptions to that when the 3/4 daughters were just too darned nice to let go.. One is now a long yearling and the other is just getting weaned, both are doing very well and are from great cows. We do have another bull to breed them to however.</p><p></p><p>A uniform calf crop is important for sale barn stock, when you get a nice bunch of steers that all look the same, you do get better prices, though around here I haven't noticed the $ differences Aaron mentioned, but a $.10 to .15 per lb less is certainly possible for 'singles'. If you market outside of the sale barn, uniformity will only matter to you.. In some cases when selling freezer beef it is nice to have a few different sizes so they'll finish at different times, but you may also want to do all the butchering and slaughtering at the same time... This is something only you can decide.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1190745, member: 9096"] I work it a lot like Dun, with the exception of not AIing heifers. The bull is turned out with the cows May 25th for a beginning of march calving season start. If you preg check your cows in the fall, I think leaving him in for 45-60 days is fine, however, if you don't preg check, you're still better off with a late calf than none at all and having fed the cow through the winter (as lucky7chief just said). Our bull stays with the cows up until the beginning of calving season, when he gets put with steers or a late cow. We will breed a bull to his daughter without a second though, though the resulting daughters are *typically* not retained.. We've made 2 exceptions to that when the 3/4 daughters were just too darned nice to let go.. One is now a long yearling and the other is just getting weaned, both are doing very well and are from great cows. We do have another bull to breed them to however. A uniform calf crop is important for sale barn stock, when you get a nice bunch of steers that all look the same, you do get better prices, though around here I haven't noticed the $ differences Aaron mentioned, but a $.10 to .15 per lb less is certainly possible for 'singles'. If you market outside of the sale barn, uniformity will only matter to you.. In some cases when selling freezer beef it is nice to have a few different sizes so they'll finish at different times, but you may also want to do all the butchering and slaughtering at the same time... This is something only you can decide. [/QUOTE]
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