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<blockquote data-quote="OklaBrangusBreeder" data-source="post: 144778" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>KellerAg,</p><p></p><p>You know, I was asking all those same questions about 3 years ago... What I decided then was to go the registered route. In hindsight, I would say that was wrong.</p><p></p><p>I did initially buy three high quality young registered brangus heifers and a young registered bull and spent quite a bit of money doing so. I just this last weekend finally had my first registered calf. So, seems like it took forever to buy young, high quality animals (which is all I could afford at the time), wait for them to get old enough to breed, breed them sucessfully, and get their calves to market.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, I bought some decent quality commercial brangus cows that started calving quicker and immediately throwing some cash flow. MUCH easier to go the commercial route initially.</p><p></p><p>Based on what I went through, I would say spend less money on a larger commercial operation initially. As soon as the cash flow from that is working for you, THEN start upgrading to some registered stock. I wish I had done that myself...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OklaBrangusBreeder, post: 144778, member: 2672"] KellerAg, You know, I was asking all those same questions about 3 years ago... What I decided then was to go the registered route. In hindsight, I would say that was wrong. I did initially buy three high quality young registered brangus heifers and a young registered bull and spent quite a bit of money doing so. I just this last weekend finally had my first registered calf. So, seems like it took forever to buy young, high quality animals (which is all I could afford at the time), wait for them to get old enough to breed, breed them sucessfully, and get their calves to market. In the meantime, I bought some decent quality commercial brangus cows that started calving quicker and immediately throwing some cash flow. MUCH easier to go the commercial route initially. Based on what I went through, I would say spend less money on a larger commercial operation initially. As soon as the cash flow from that is working for you, THEN start upgrading to some registered stock. I wish I had done that myself... [/QUOTE]
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