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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 1028749" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>Seventeen years ago I moved my life to live with partner who had some cows he'd been trading on the markets when the prices crashed. He had debt and cows worth half what he'd paid. They weren't his real interest, but I liked hanging around with them, watching how they behaved. I paid the debts, so figured they were now <em>my</em> cows, then bought a supposedly straight Angus bull, bred some calves, weighed everything regularly, kept the best. Bought some pedigree cows, bred some bulls of my own - most of the early ones would have been anyone else's steers, I now know - and gradually improved the herd.</p><p></p><p>This morning I sent nine rising yearling heifers off to a sale to get my winter numbers right. If I'd been able to buy heifers like them when I started, I'd have made much faster progress, but I might not have learned as much. This year I'll calve 36, all going well. I played with bigger numbers - up to 55 one year - but can't feed them well enough to keep everyone healthy and up to their best production. If they have an easy winter, so do I, and I like that idea a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 1028749, member: 5956"] Seventeen years ago I moved my life to live with partner who had some cows he'd been trading on the markets when the prices crashed. He had debt and cows worth half what he'd paid. They weren't his real interest, but I liked hanging around with them, watching how they behaved. I paid the debts, so figured they were now [i]my[/i] cows, then bought a supposedly straight Angus bull, bred some calves, weighed everything regularly, kept the best. Bought some pedigree cows, bred some bulls of my own - most of the early ones would have been anyone else's steers, I now know - and gradually improved the herd. This morning I sent nine rising yearling heifers off to a sale to get my winter numbers right. If I'd been able to buy heifers like them when I started, I'd have made much faster progress, but I might not have learned as much. This year I'll calve 36, all going well. I played with bigger numbers - up to 55 one year - but can't feed them well enough to keep everyone healthy and up to their best production. If they have an easy winter, so do I, and I like that idea a lot. [/QUOTE]
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