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Keep or ship hard pull heifer?
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<blockquote data-quote="cattleman99" data-source="post: 774009" data-attributes="member: 14530"><p>Fertility isn't a problem around my place either. But every old cow will eventually either raise a dud or come in open at some point. In general I find if there ever is an open it's the 1st calf heifer. Doesn't happen a lot but it happens from time to time. I found it's a lot easier to just run them with the bulls. Always end up with better conception rates. Besides in general I find the AI bulls don't really provide much benefit other than introducing new lines into my cattle. Customers show up and ask If I have any calves off of different popular AI bulls and when I show them the calves they generally end up buying the ones off of the herdbulls as they are often better. You need a few of those AI calves to get the customer in the yard to begin with though. Most AI bulls are just prettier. The exception is I AI all the heifers. No sense experimenting with something I think will make a heifer bull when I can use one that is proven to be one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cattleman99, post: 774009, member: 14530"] Fertility isn't a problem around my place either. But every old cow will eventually either raise a dud or come in open at some point. In general I find if there ever is an open it's the 1st calf heifer. Doesn't happen a lot but it happens from time to time. I found it's a lot easier to just run them with the bulls. Always end up with better conception rates. Besides in general I find the AI bulls don't really provide much benefit other than introducing new lines into my cattle. Customers show up and ask If I have any calves off of different popular AI bulls and when I show them the calves they generally end up buying the ones off of the herdbulls as they are often better. You need a few of those AI calves to get the customer in the yard to begin with though. Most AI bulls are just prettier. The exception is I AI all the heifers. No sense experimenting with something I think will make a heifer bull when I can use one that is proven to be one. [/QUOTE]
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