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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1611696" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>If you bury one or 2 then you are really behind. For the most part we sell opens.... 1st calf heifers will get a 2nd chance if they have raised a big calf and maybe just don't have the condition/weight. That could be due to the weather/grass conditions.... more our fault taking care of providing for them. But it is an individual choice. </p><p> And there was the case of a bull doing poorly so that group of 75% open got a run back to another bull. Since we calve spring and fall, they will lose 6 months, not a whole year. We have 22 back with a bull to be preg checked that came from several different pastures that were all a bit thinner than they should have been and had nice big calves. The cull cow market was terrible, so opted to keep these... they were all younger cows. They do not get another chance if they come up open this time. We did buy several breds at a couple of bred sales too. Gives us a chance to do a little shuffling and make some choices. Many of the breds we buy are older cows, but at the one bid above cull price, and the spring/summer looking at them, most have done a pretty good job of raising these calves. We are weaning calves now, and will feed quite a few until probably late Jan or early Feb then sell some. Hoping that the market does increase a bit come the new year. This China deal ought to help too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1611696, member: 25884"] If you bury one or 2 then you are really behind. For the most part we sell opens.... 1st calf heifers will get a 2nd chance if they have raised a big calf and maybe just don't have the condition/weight. That could be due to the weather/grass conditions.... more our fault taking care of providing for them. But it is an individual choice. And there was the case of a bull doing poorly so that group of 75% open got a run back to another bull. Since we calve spring and fall, they will lose 6 months, not a whole year. We have 22 back with a bull to be preg checked that came from several different pastures that were all a bit thinner than they should have been and had nice big calves. The cull cow market was terrible, so opted to keep these... they were all younger cows. They do not get another chance if they come up open this time. We did buy several breds at a couple of bred sales too. Gives us a chance to do a little shuffling and make some choices. Many of the breds we buy are older cows, but at the one bid above cull price, and the spring/summer looking at them, most have done a pretty good job of raising these calves. We are weaning calves now, and will feed quite a few until probably late Jan or early Feb then sell some. Hoping that the market does increase a bit come the new year. This China deal ought to help too. [/QUOTE]
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