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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1770518" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>[USER=42865]@Slipstrm[/USER] , [USER=21194]@Rafter S[/USER] has given excellent advice. Go ahead and cut that bull calf ASAP. If your family isn't large enough to eat 3 cows in a year, then another alternative would be to sell them, (or 1 or 2 of them, if you want to eat one) in the spring. Take that money and buy 4-5 more weanlings, and sell them next fall before you have to start feeding them. Or sell them all but one to feed out for feeder beef, etc. And like someone else said, build your corrals, working pens, chutes etc, as soon as you can. If, after a year or so of doing this, and you still want to raise some calves, then like others have mentioned; buy a few bred cows. Now, I am <em>glad</em> there are people who <em>do</em> raise replacement heifers ( so that I will have some cows to buy after they have had a calf or 2) but I never did..... ( except for some Corriente). Don't care how good a heifer is and what kind of bodacious brood cow you think she might make, for what she would bring as a weanling, and adding the cost to raise her til she has her first calf) .... you can buy as good or better a cow for the same or less money. And you don't lose 2 and 1/2 years raising a heifer that might or might not calve trouble free. Just my 2 cents. You will find that ever how many people you talk with, that is how many different opinions you will get. And most of them may be good...there is no one BEST way to do anything, and cattle are no different. None of us "experienced cattlemen" on here were born knowing all there is to know about cattle. I'd wager that most of the knowledge you will get from the veteran cowmen on here, was learned the same way I learned..by doing a lot of stuff wrong, inefficient, some times down right dangerous, first. I know if the internet and this board, with these people on it, had been around 50 years ago, then my learning curve would have been a lot less costly and painful. </p><p></p><p>You made great choices as far as cows and bull goes, though, if you were gonna do cow calf. Can't go wrong with Herf/Angus cows and a black bull. Being in Texas, you could probably use a Brangus rather than Angus bull, but either would be a great choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1770518, member: 40587"] [USER=42865]@Slipstrm[/USER] , [USER=21194]@Rafter S[/USER] has given excellent advice. Go ahead and cut that bull calf ASAP. If your family isn't large enough to eat 3 cows in a year, then another alternative would be to sell them, (or 1 or 2 of them, if you want to eat one) in the spring. Take that money and buy 4-5 more weanlings, and sell them next fall before you have to start feeding them. Or sell them all but one to feed out for feeder beef, etc. And like someone else said, build your corrals, working pens, chutes etc, as soon as you can. If, after a year or so of doing this, and you still want to raise some calves, then like others have mentioned; buy a few bred cows. Now, I am [I]glad[/I] there are people who [I]do[/I] raise replacement heifers ( so that I will have some cows to buy after they have had a calf or 2) but I never did..... ( except for some Corriente). Don't care how good a heifer is and what kind of bodacious brood cow you think she might make, for what she would bring as a weanling, and adding the cost to raise her til she has her first calf) .... you can buy as good or better a cow for the same or less money. And you don't lose 2 and 1/2 years raising a heifer that might or might not calve trouble free. Just my 2 cents. You will find that ever how many people you talk with, that is how many different opinions you will get. And most of them may be good...there is no one BEST way to do anything, and cattle are no different. None of us "experienced cattlemen" on here were born knowing all there is to know about cattle. I'd wager that most of the knowledge you will get from the veteran cowmen on here, was learned the same way I learned..by doing a lot of stuff wrong, inefficient, some times down right dangerous, first. I know if the internet and this board, with these people on it, had been around 50 years ago, then my learning curve would have been a lot less costly and painful. You made great choices as far as cows and bull goes, though, if you were gonna do cow calf. Can't go wrong with Herf/Angus cows and a black bull. Being in Texas, you could probably use a Brangus rather than Angus bull, but either would be a great choice. [/QUOTE]
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