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<blockquote data-quote="Logan52" data-source="post: 1550961" data-attributes="member: 32879"><p>In the early 70s I had a neighbor move in that had retired from a Jersey dairy and brought 50 Jersey heifers with him to a small hill farm. He AI'ed them to the big Charolais that were popular at the time. He continued to cross the F-1s back to these huge Charolais. They made wonderful cows that weaned growthy calves that sold well. Back then they all had horns and had to be dehorned. I bought a few of the second cross cows for $300 each when he retired and bred them to an Angus bull for some of the best calves I ever raised. Cows got high and I sold the cows for $850 after weaning the calves and always regretted it, and my neighbor was sore at me for selling them. I was just starting out and short on cash and could not resist the chance at an easy profit. I remember the sale caused my taxes and social security payments to go up that year and made the deal not so good.</p><p>Anyway, they were good cows if you fed them well, as good as any I ever owned. It set my course in the cattle business, buying cheap dairy cross heifers and breeding them. I would sell some as springers and keep the best. That was in the tail end of the baby beef days and I did pretty well with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Logan52, post: 1550961, member: 32879"] In the early 70s I had a neighbor move in that had retired from a Jersey dairy and brought 50 Jersey heifers with him to a small hill farm. He AI'ed them to the big Charolais that were popular at the time. He continued to cross the F-1s back to these huge Charolais. They made wonderful cows that weaned growthy calves that sold well. Back then they all had horns and had to be dehorned. I bought a few of the second cross cows for $300 each when he retired and bred them to an Angus bull for some of the best calves I ever raised. Cows got high and I sold the cows for $850 after weaning the calves and always regretted it, and my neighbor was sore at me for selling them. I was just starting out and short on cash and could not resist the chance at an easy profit. I remember the sale caused my taxes and social security payments to go up that year and made the deal not so good. Anyway, they were good cows if you fed them well, as good as any I ever owned. It set my course in the cattle business, buying cheap dairy cross heifers and breeding them. I would sell some as springers and keep the best. That was in the tail end of the baby beef days and I did pretty well with them. [/QUOTE]
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