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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 873799" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>Big cows better produce the big calves...huge calves, the ones we should brag about. If they do not, if the calves are in the middle, they eat more than they should, convert the energy into themselves. Not money makers. </p><p>I agree about the proven cows compared to hiefers. They say that hiefers have a cull rate of 20-25% by the time the third calf is due to hit the ground...so figure that into your costing and culling.</p><p></p><p>As to safe family lines of cows...ya i agree with that to a point. But there is also family lines which can give you issues. When life was good, we kept hiefers to get our numbers up. Young, stupid and green behind the ears, we kept some we should not have. A few years later time to cull heavy due to feed shortages. When we looked into the cull pen after preg testing our response was...there is cow # so and so...and look, there is her daughter and grand daughter and great grand...you get the idea. We culled 50% of the herd and almost every cull was a in line or family of cattle. Taught me alot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 873799, member: 6198"] Big cows better produce the big calves...huge calves, the ones we should brag about. If they do not, if the calves are in the middle, they eat more than they should, convert the energy into themselves. Not money makers. I agree about the proven cows compared to hiefers. They say that hiefers have a cull rate of 20-25% by the time the third calf is due to hit the ground...so figure that into your costing and culling. As to safe family lines of cows...ya i agree with that to a point. But there is also family lines which can give you issues. When life was good, we kept hiefers to get our numbers up. Young, stupid and green behind the ears, we kept some we should not have. A few years later time to cull heavy due to feed shortages. When we looked into the cull pen after preg testing our response was...there is cow # so and so...and look, there is her daughter and grand daughter and great grand...you get the idea. We culled 50% of the herd and almost every cull was a in line or family of cattle. Taught me alot. [/QUOTE]
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