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<blockquote data-quote="abrams1997" data-source="post: 1673331" data-attributes="member: 41622"><p>Rafter S, I saw you comment about buying a bred cow vs raising calves...is that because a heifer's first calf is more dangerous for her or something? </p><p></p><p>just like Cmunsell, I am brand new on the board. I bought a seven acre cow pasture and displace a bunch of cows in 2019. Been talking with that heard owner regularly ever since. Well bought the parcel next to me and then the parcel behind me and have really displaced this guys heard. (He runs about 1000 head on a bunch of parcels around the area). We watched two mommas give birth outside the windows of our campers and those two mommas and one of the baby heifers (she is 1.5 yrs now and ready to breed) come to our calling and let us pet them and eat out of our hands. My neighbor cow guy is going to sell those three heifers (one has a nursing bull calf) to us.</p><p>My question is could that bull calf be left a bull and left in the herd to breed back? I am looking to keep just 3 mommas and beef the babies going forward...fully grass fed on ~13 acres of awesome grass in Georgia. Just trying to figure out the breeding question and if that bull can just stay in the herd as "line-breeding" then that would be good...if he works out.</p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="abrams1997, post: 1673331, member: 41622"] Rafter S, I saw you comment about buying a bred cow vs raising calves...is that because a heifer’s first calf is more dangerous for her or something? just like Cmunsell, I am brand new on the board. I bought a seven acre cow pasture and displace a bunch of cows in 2019. Been talking with that heard owner regularly ever since. Well bought the parcel next to me and then the parcel behind me and have really displaced this guys heard. (He runs about 1000 head on a bunch of parcels around the area). We watched two mommas give birth outside the windows of our campers and those two mommas and one of the baby heifers (she is 1.5 yrs now and ready to breed) come to our calling and let us pet them and eat out of our hands. My neighbor cow guy is going to sell those three heifers (one has a nursing bull calf) to us. My question is could that bull calf be left a bull and left in the herd to breed back? I am looking to keep just 3 mommas and beef the babies going forward...fully grass fed on ~13 acres of awesome grass in Georgia. Just trying to figure out the breeding question and if that bull can just stay in the herd as “line-breeding” then that would be good...if he works out. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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