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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 1204717" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I have started keeping a bull calf a year, more to protect myself if my main bull fails me than anything else, but also so I can split up my herd to make for easier pasture management. The one I kept this year comes from a line of old cows, Mother is 9 and in her prime, grandma had 16 calves without skipping a beat, and great grandma had 13 calves. His mother has also got the other good traits I look for.. perfect udder with lots of milk, throws smaller calves at birth than the rest of the herd, and they come out like torpedoes.. if you blink you'll miss the birth, good hooves, and good attitudes, and he's got a meaty butt.</p><p></p><p>Here's a cow that might have made me money had I bought her.. with her size she probably went relatively cheap, this was 2 years ago, and by now she'd have made money on just the per-pound.. I'm not sure if she was bred (she would have had to be for me to consider her), but I'm sure she could give you a few scale crushing calves yet </p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Rx7man/media/IMG_7566_zpscf0413ab.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/IMG_7566_zpscf0413ab.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 1204717, member: 9096"] I have started keeping a bull calf a year, more to protect myself if my main bull fails me than anything else, but also so I can split up my herd to make for easier pasture management. The one I kept this year comes from a line of old cows, Mother is 9 and in her prime, grandma had 16 calves without skipping a beat, and great grandma had 13 calves. His mother has also got the other good traits I look for.. perfect udder with lots of milk, throws smaller calves at birth than the rest of the herd, and they come out like torpedoes.. if you blink you'll miss the birth, good hooves, and good attitudes, and he's got a meaty butt. Here's a cow that might have made me money had I bought her.. with her size she probably went relatively cheap, this was 2 years ago, and by now she'd have made money on just the per-pound.. I'm not sure if she was bred (she would have had to be for me to consider her), but I'm sure she could give you a few scale crushing calves yet [url=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Rx7man/media/IMG_7566_zpscf0413ab.jpg.html][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/Rx7man/IMG_7566_zpscf0413ab.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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