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Purchasing heavy breds vs steers ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stickney94" data-source="post: 1798019" data-attributes="member: 37941"><p>As someone that raises angus, angus x wagyu, pb wagyu, and F2s as you say -- the first thing I would say -- do you have a market? Second, a good F1 (out of a quality angus cow) can easily finish in less than 24 months. An F2 though -- all over the board on their growth and finishing time. </p><p></p><p>F2 or 75% wagyu influenced cows bred back to wagyu -- are going to give you some small and slow growing calves (what is that 93% wagyu at that point). There is a FB message board for Wagyu and to be honest I'm impressed by the people that can get wagyu results well but I see a lot of people harvesting PB or high percentage wagyu animals at 30+ months with results that are less impressive than what I'd expect from F1s harvested at 16-18 months. </p><p></p><p>My point in stating that is feeding out wagyu animals requires some knowledge/experience imo. Assuming you know what you are doing feeding out and you have a market -- I'd go the route that requires the least initial outlay as I see real risks with both situations (I'm pretty sure you have cows/calves -- so going with the breds for you would lessen the risk with that option and make it a wash in my mind with feeders).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stickney94, post: 1798019, member: 37941"] As someone that raises angus, angus x wagyu, pb wagyu, and F2s as you say -- the first thing I would say -- do you have a market? Second, a good F1 (out of a quality angus cow) can easily finish in less than 24 months. An F2 though -- all over the board on their growth and finishing time. F2 or 75% wagyu influenced cows bred back to wagyu -- are going to give you some small and slow growing calves (what is that 93% wagyu at that point). There is a FB message board for Wagyu and to be honest I'm impressed by the people that can get wagyu results well but I see a lot of people harvesting PB or high percentage wagyu animals at 30+ months with results that are less impressive than what I'd expect from F1s harvested at 16-18 months. My point in stating that is feeding out wagyu animals requires some knowledge/experience imo. Assuming you know what you are doing feeding out and you have a market -- I'd go the route that requires the least initial outlay as I see real risks with both situations (I'm pretty sure you have cows/calves -- so going with the breds for you would lessen the risk with that option and make it a wash in my mind with feeders). [/QUOTE]
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