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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1815029" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>To some extend that's true...</p><p></p><p>Which is why I had repeat customers when selling replacement heifers after my reputation was established. I'd buy late bred cows culled for age, sometimes sale barn sent in as kills, or privately before they went to the sale barn. I looked for a specific type and would try to buy them in large lots. Looking for consistency. They'd raise a calf and about half would go back to the sale barn for one reason or another. Then the ones that raised a decent calf, by my standards, would go into my "core herd". The core herd was short term cows due to age, but I'd try to get at least three calves out of them. Those were the ones that I raised replacement heifers from. The people I sold to were often the people I bought the older cows from. They would be buying a heifer bred AI to a calving ease bull, and out of a ten+ year old cow that had proven herself in the real world. The heifer would have to wean at 600# or more and fit my criteria for frame and type, and be docile enough to be approachable. The bulls I used to get the heifers were all out of moderately framed older cows with good udders and feet and that weaned large calves.</p><p></p><p>The cows I picked up were high quality but past their prime. A smooth/broken mouth ten year old+ cow that will wean a 600# calf and remain in good condition on decent pasture and nothing more, is the kind of cow to get heifers out of. My customers saw the results. It's why they were repeat customers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1815029, member: 42463"] To some extend that's true... Which is why I had repeat customers when selling replacement heifers after my reputation was established. I'd buy late bred cows culled for age, sometimes sale barn sent in as kills, or privately before they went to the sale barn. I looked for a specific type and would try to buy them in large lots. Looking for consistency. They'd raise a calf and about half would go back to the sale barn for one reason or another. Then the ones that raised a decent calf, by my standards, would go into my "core herd". The core herd was short term cows due to age, but I'd try to get at least three calves out of them. Those were the ones that I raised replacement heifers from. The people I sold to were often the people I bought the older cows from. They would be buying a heifer bred AI to a calving ease bull, and out of a ten+ year old cow that had proven herself in the real world. The heifer would have to wean at 600# or more and fit my criteria for frame and type, and be docile enough to be approachable. The bulls I used to get the heifers were all out of moderately framed older cows with good udders and feet and that weaned large calves. The cows I picked up were high quality but past their prime. A smooth/broken mouth ten year old+ cow that will wean a 600# calf and remain in good condition on decent pasture and nothing more, is the kind of cow to get heifers out of. My customers saw the results. It's why they were repeat customers. [/QUOTE]
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