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<blockquote data-quote="Jafruech" data-source="post: 1670575" data-attributes="member: 24025"><p>Breed and Cull for disposition and use bulls accordingly. </p><p></p><p>If a cow has to be brought into a pen or barn to calve she is culled, period. First and foremost a cow has to be a cow. It's her job to have a calf unassisted, feed her calf, protect her calf, and wean a nice calf while maintaining and then regaining her body condition quickly. If she can't do any of the above? She's gone. I'm not there to do her job for her. Seems like too many Ranchers these days are intent to try and be better cows than the ones they have <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤦♂️" title="Man facepalming :man_facepalming:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f926-2642.png" data-shortname=":man_facepalming:" /></p><p></p><p>I check for new calves in the morning and in the late afternoon. I go out, toss a lead rope around their neck, sit on them, band, give shots, and tag them. Takes about 2 minutes per calf. Occasionally I'll have to rope one but that's rare. I can't imagine bringing them up to pens and a barn and running them through like that...I'd never get anything else done. There's an entire industry built on making stupid management decisions "work." </p><p></p><p>Running cows can be one of the easiest things you ever do...or the hardest. Most of it depends on you and your management. A person could easily run 100+ cows, work full time on top, not lose a calf, breed back 99% or better each year, get a premium for their herd and have time for their family on the weekends and never have an ounce of stress about calving season...it's really dependent on you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jafruech, post: 1670575, member: 24025"] Breed and Cull for disposition and use bulls accordingly. If a cow has to be brought into a pen or barn to calve she is culled, period. First and foremost a cow has to be a cow. It's her job to have a calf unassisted, feed her calf, protect her calf, and wean a nice calf while maintaining and then regaining her body condition quickly. If she can't do any of the above? She's gone. I'm not there to do her job for her. Seems like too many Ranchers these days are intent to try and be better cows than the ones they have 🤦♂️ I check for new calves in the morning and in the late afternoon. I go out, toss a lead rope around their neck, sit on them, band, give shots, and tag them. Takes about 2 minutes per calf. Occasionally I'll have to rope one but that's rare. I can't imagine bringing them up to pens and a barn and running them through like that...I'd never get anything else done. There's an entire industry built on making stupid management decisions "work." Running cows can be one of the easiest things you ever do...or the hardest. Most of it depends on you and your management. A person could easily run 100+ cows, work full time on top, not lose a calf, breed back 99% or better each year, get a premium for their herd and have time for their family on the weekends and never have an ounce of stress about calving season...it's really dependent on you. [/QUOTE]
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