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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 318142" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>CB - not sure others will understand that.</p><p>You have a cow that produces a heifer that you keep. That means the COW didn't have any cash flow since you didn't sell her offspring.</p><p>Anyway, I generally can sell some of our open heifers for MORE than I can buy or sell bred heifers. I say SOME, because I never put them <strong>all</strong> in a sale. Some are sold private & some are put in PB sales. I rarely have a heifer that goes with the feeders, sometimes, but not often.</p><p>I PREFER keeping my own for replacements. As others have said, homegrown heifers stay in the herd lots longer than purchased breds for many reasons - mostly poor breeders in my management. But, I do both - keep & buy.</p><p>Even though I promote a bull, we are female producers. Meaning, I feel we lose money on every bull born. And, we feel the "cow makes the difference". Cow families are #1 with us. We pick bulls that we feel will produce the BEST female out of each cow. Of course, we try to pick bulls that have the maternal & the growth traits we're looking for.</p><p>Aplusmnt - I agree with your Kansas figuring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 318142, member: 968"] CB - not sure others will understand that. You have a cow that produces a heifer that you keep. That means the COW didn't have any cash flow since you didn't sell her offspring. Anyway, I generally can sell some of our open heifers for MORE than I can buy or sell bred heifers. I say SOME, because I never put them [b]all[/b] in a sale. Some are sold private & some are put in PB sales. I rarely have a heifer that goes with the feeders, sometimes, but not often. I PREFER keeping my own for replacements. As others have said, homegrown heifers stay in the herd lots longer than purchased breds for many reasons - mostly poor breeders in my management. But, I do both - keep & buy. Even though I promote a bull, we are female producers. Meaning, I feel we lose money on every bull born. And, we feel the "cow makes the difference". Cow families are #1 with us. We pick bulls that we feel will produce the BEST female out of each cow. Of course, we try to pick bulls that have the maternal & the growth traits we're looking for. Aplusmnt - I agree with your Kansas figuring. [/QUOTE]
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