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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 630504" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>We have a place dedicated to only calves. All the calves come in from the different places and are put there until they are ready to be sold. Alot make it to a year or better so it doesn't seem like much to keep a few heifers a couple more months until they can be dispersed back to the places to be bred. As a bonus our "calf pasture" is in a well traveled area close to town so we have people who call wanting to buy heifers, even a few bulls off the top.</p><p></p><p>As with every thing in the cattle business it depends on your situation on if it is "worth" it or not. Are you leasing land for this? buying land? or is the land paid for? Those are big factors that can cut into it. </p><p></p><p>My personal opinion is its best to have a balance of retained heifers and bought heifers. If you say need 20 heifers this year, and you have 9 GREAT heifers and 3 decent heifers, keep the 9 and buy 11 other GREAT heifers. Alot of people retain CRAP and it eats them up a few years down the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 630504, member: 6291"] We have a place dedicated to only calves. All the calves come in from the different places and are put there until they are ready to be sold. Alot make it to a year or better so it doesn't seem like much to keep a few heifers a couple more months until they can be dispersed back to the places to be bred. As a bonus our "calf pasture" is in a well traveled area close to town so we have people who call wanting to buy heifers, even a few bulls off the top. As with every thing in the cattle business it depends on your situation on if it is "worth" it or not. Are you leasing land for this? buying land? or is the land paid for? Those are big factors that can cut into it. My personal opinion is its best to have a balance of retained heifers and bought heifers. If you say need 20 heifers this year, and you have 9 GREAT heifers and 3 decent heifers, keep the 9 and buy 11 other GREAT heifers. Alot of people retain CRAP and it eats them up a few years down the road. [/QUOTE]
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