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<blockquote data-quote="sjr725" data-source="post: 418870" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>We don't run registereds - just commercial cows, but I do alot of research into the bulls we buy. When I'm looking at bulls, I'm looking for beef production, weaning weights, caracass quality ect. - not so much maternal siring capability; so I keep very few replacements, we have found it's more cost effective to buy bred 2nd or 3rd calf heifers that to keep our own back. 2 reasons - I don't have to trade out bulls near as often, and I get the opportunity to purchase better genetics to improve the overall quality of our herd. I'm more likely to keep a heifer calf off of one of the bred replacements I bought than a heifer calf sired by my own bull, unless one is just an outstanding individual. We run between 350 & 380 cow/calf pairs and last fall I held back just 5 heifer calves of my own. We'll see this fall how many cows get shipped after weaning and then we'll start looking at the sale catalogs for replacements this winter.</p><p>I like to let somebody else deal with all the calving problems that first calf heifers are prone to, I have a couple every year but I wouldn't want to mess with a large number of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sjr725, post: 418870, member: 4936"] We don't run registereds - just commercial cows, but I do alot of research into the bulls we buy. When I'm looking at bulls, I'm looking for beef production, weaning weights, caracass quality ect. - not so much maternal siring capability; so I keep very few replacements, we have found it's more cost effective to buy bred 2nd or 3rd calf heifers that to keep our own back. 2 reasons - I don't have to trade out bulls near as often, and I get the opportunity to purchase better genetics to improve the overall quality of our herd. I'm more likely to keep a heifer calf off of one of the bred replacements I bought than a heifer calf sired by my own bull, unless one is just an outstanding individual. We run between 350 & 380 cow/calf pairs and last fall I held back just 5 heifer calves of my own. We'll see this fall how many cows get shipped after weaning and then we'll start looking at the sale catalogs for replacements this winter. I like to let somebody else deal with all the calving problems that first calf heifers are prone to, I have a couple every year but I wouldn't want to mess with a large number of them. [/QUOTE]
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