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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 3548"><p>Thank you both. What we want to do is to raise beef to sell. We're debating on keeping steers the 2 years and auctioning off what we can't "sell" ourselves as locker beef at that time or getting people to committ to a certain ammt. and sell them as weanlings. We want to build up our herd with our females as much as possible. I know black goes well at auction but what I don' t know is how the "purebred" goes. I've been told it's worth my time and effort to register our herd as soon as we are able and to go the purebreed route but I've been told that nobody cares about a mix breed at auction either.</p><p></p><p>So what I'm wondering is: what's the demand? A high quality hereford or a good mix breed beef cow? What would net us more at auction? We've even considered keeping some good bull calves (if we stick with quality herefords) and raise our own bull and cycle a new bull every few years.</p><p></p><p>* sidenote * As for breeding them this year - the 2 just calved within the last 3 weeks and the older heifer still isn't as old as we'd like - 13 months and quite small still. If she dosen't grow much by the spring we'll sell her for another one. We want them to calve Feb. to April and we've passed that window already. So we're planing on waiting till next year and buying another couple of pregnant cows next spring. We have a lot to do to this place to get it going well so we feel like we can afford to wait to breed them for this year only.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:LisaW2@mac.com">LisaW2@mac.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3548"] Thank you both. What we want to do is to raise beef to sell. We're debating on keeping steers the 2 years and auctioning off what we can't "sell" ourselves as locker beef at that time or getting people to committ to a certain ammt. and sell them as weanlings. We want to build up our herd with our females as much as possible. I know black goes well at auction but what I don' t know is how the "purebred" goes. I've been told it's worth my time and effort to register our herd as soon as we are able and to go the purebreed route but I've been told that nobody cares about a mix breed at auction either. So what I'm wondering is: what's the demand? A high quality hereford or a good mix breed beef cow? What would net us more at auction? We've even considered keeping some good bull calves (if we stick with quality herefords) and raise our own bull and cycle a new bull every few years. * sidenote * As for breeding them this year - the 2 just calved within the last 3 weeks and the older heifer still isn't as old as we'd like - 13 months and quite small still. If she dosen't grow much by the spring we'll sell her for another one. We want them to calve Feb. to April and we've passed that window already. So we're planing on waiting till next year and buying another couple of pregnant cows next spring. We have a lot to do to this place to get it going well so we feel like we can afford to wait to breed them for this year only. [email=LisaW2@mac.com]LisaW2@mac.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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