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<blockquote data-quote="coachg" data-source="post: 1829483" data-attributes="member: 22053"><p>Moved to the country when I was 13 . My grandpa talked me into buying a jersey heifer with her first calf. Later a bred gilt . Gilt had 12 pigs and laid on all of them and killed them . Grandpa bought her back for even money. Jersey raised me 6-8 calves . Think I gave $200 for the pair . Later I got some half Hereford x Holstein ,Guernsey , Jersey heifers from my uncles Hereford farm . He choice the best register calves and put them on those milk cows to really get them to grow off for his show string . And I bought those milk cow's calves . You talk about some cows they made . I slowly transitioned to shorthorns and later bought a herd from one of my favorite teachers and coach . We had some of the best cows in North Alabama. But we couldn't sell a bull except at a registered sale or a test station. After my dad got where he couldn't help me we sold the whole herd . After I got my children raised and working my youngest son wanted to get in the cow business. It was right after the high market 10-12 years ago so we didn't buy in at the highest prices but they weren't cheap ! I had said I'd never own black angus but those were the ones who drug their belly in the mud . I started us with 25 registered cows . Not that we wanted in the registered business but I wanted the best I could get . I bought 13 out of Oklahoma and 12 from Mrs Gizmom . All older cows , but bred and we got 4-6 calves out of all of them . Lost 2-3 along the way , old age, stifle injury and I think one to rabies ! We kept every heifer that we thought were good enough to keep . With our commercial herd we had 99 momma cows this year . That included 11 bred heifers . We also had 12 open heifers. If we can raise the hay we are going to try to keep about 100 momma cows/ heifers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coachg, post: 1829483, member: 22053"] Moved to the country when I was 13 . My grandpa talked me into buying a jersey heifer with her first calf. Later a bred gilt . Gilt had 12 pigs and laid on all of them and killed them . Grandpa bought her back for even money. Jersey raised me 6-8 calves . Think I gave $200 for the pair . Later I got some half Hereford x Holstein ,Guernsey , Jersey heifers from my uncles Hereford farm . He choice the best register calves and put them on those milk cows to really get them to grow off for his show string . And I bought those milk cow’s calves . You talk about some cows they made . I slowly transitioned to shorthorns and later bought a herd from one of my favorite teachers and coach . We had some of the best cows in North Alabama. But we couldn’t sell a bull except at a registered sale or a test station. After my dad got where he couldn’t help me we sold the whole herd . After I got my children raised and working my youngest son wanted to get in the cow business. It was right after the high market 10-12 years ago so we didn’t buy in at the highest prices but they weren’t cheap ! I had said I’d never own black angus but those were the ones who drug their belly in the mud . I started us with 25 registered cows . Not that we wanted in the registered business but I wanted the best I could get . I bought 13 out of Oklahoma and 12 from Mrs Gizmom . All older cows , but bred and we got 4-6 calves out of all of them . Lost 2-3 along the way , old age, stifle injury and I think one to rabies ! We kept every heifer that we thought were good enough to keep . With our commercial herd we had 99 momma cows this year . That included 11 bred heifers . We also had 12 open heifers. If we can raise the hay we are going to try to keep about 100 momma cows/ heifers [/QUOTE]
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