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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 692358" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I had a situation this past spring where there was one bull calf that looked to be much better than the others, so at the spring vet run thru (all calves about 4-5 weeks old) all others were cut, this one left whole.</p><p></p><p>Well as it turns out, a couple of the others now look much better than this one left whole. My best looking bull prospect is now a steer! I don't know if his gains were related to being cut, probably not. He was just a little slower getting started growing which is not all that bad a thing.</p><p></p><p>So the whole one will be cut at the fall run thru and it's "wait-till-next-year" on finding a good bull prospect to keep my bull's good things going. </p><p></p><p>Maybe also not such a bad thing since I have learned a lot from this year's experience and you folks here too. The problem is just managing the keeper heifers from this year, a couple of whom look outstanding.</p><p></p><p>The more I learn the more I am finding it worthwhile to not jump to early conclusions on who is a keeper and who goes to the processor. </p><p></p><p>Next year I may not cut any bull calves from my target cows in the spring but wait until fall and I can see what I have. I will cut the bull calves from my larger cows in the spring no matter what since I do not want any bull from a 1600 lb cow no matter how good he looks as I try to move to a 1200 lb herd. jmho.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 692358, member: 7509"] I had a situation this past spring where there was one bull calf that looked to be much better than the others, so at the spring vet run thru (all calves about 4-5 weeks old) all others were cut, this one left whole. Well as it turns out, a couple of the others now look much better than this one left whole. My best looking bull prospect is now a steer! I don't know if his gains were related to being cut, probably not. He was just a little slower getting started growing which is not all that bad a thing. So the whole one will be cut at the fall run thru and it's "wait-till-next-year" on finding a good bull prospect to keep my bull's good things going. Maybe also not such a bad thing since I have learned a lot from this year's experience and you folks here too. The problem is just managing the keeper heifers from this year, a couple of whom look outstanding. The more I learn the more I am finding it worthwhile to not jump to early conclusions on who is a keeper and who goes to the processor. Next year I may not cut any bull calves from my target cows in the spring but wait until fall and I can see what I have. I will cut the bull calves from my larger cows in the spring no matter what since I do not want any bull from a 1600 lb cow no matter how good he looks as I try to move to a 1200 lb herd. jmho. Jim [/QUOTE]
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