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<blockquote data-quote="cypressfarms" data-source="post: 485767" data-attributes="member: 2653"><p>Fair enought Nova,</p><p></p><p>I just didn't want it to seem that there could never be genetic gain in keeping your own heifers. Assuming your using good bulls, each crop should be better. I do see a problem with someone just saying "I'm going to keep all of my heifers to increase my herd". This is trouble waiting to happen. I do keep the occasional heifer or two, but she had to be a tremendous calf from a good moma & bull. There are a lot of good replacements out there. That's all my dad's been doing the last 15 years or so - raising replacements and selling them as bred heifers. He sells them right out of the pasture and you know what your getting.</p><p></p><p>To me the worst thing a person could do to increase their herd would be to go out and buy a group of bred heifers - without knowing the bulls that bred them. Seems like a train wreck waiting to happen. I've lost enough calves to "other" things without having to pull a 100 pound calf from a heifer - losing them both.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cypressfarms, post: 485767, member: 2653"] Fair enought Nova, I just didn't want it to seem that there could never be genetic gain in keeping your own heifers. Assuming your using good bulls, each crop should be better. I do see a problem with someone just saying "I'm going to keep all of my heifers to increase my herd". This is trouble waiting to happen. I do keep the occasional heifer or two, but she had to be a tremendous calf from a good moma & bull. There are a lot of good replacements out there. That's all my dad's been doing the last 15 years or so - raising replacements and selling them as bred heifers. He sells them right out of the pasture and you know what your getting. To me the worst thing a person could do to increase their herd would be to go out and buy a group of bred heifers - without knowing the bulls that bred them. Seems like a train wreck waiting to happen. I've lost enough calves to "other" things without having to pull a 100 pound calf from a heifer - losing them both. [/QUOTE]
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