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<blockquote data-quote="Angus Cowman" data-source="post: 630517" data-attributes="member: 8829"><p>I buy heavy hfrs or hfr pairs and yes I do cull a few after the 2nd calf but I cull hard and in my experience if I keep 40 hfrs at weaning usually by breeding or by the time I wean the first calf I have only about 20-25 that make the cut so I have spent 2 yrs feeding a hfr that all that feed could go into a cow that is producing </p><p>They way you have to figure your expense on raising that hfr is to figure how much labor goes into getting that first calf on the ground </p><p>I have figured it several different ways and it cost me about $100 more to buy good hfr pairs than to raise them and if I don't keep hfrs I can run more cows on the ground that the hfrs were using </p><p>and if I can't make that $100 up on 2 calf crops out of a cow whle I would be waiting on that hfr than I don't need to be in this business</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angus Cowman, post: 630517, member: 8829"] I buy heavy hfrs or hfr pairs and yes I do cull a few after the 2nd calf but I cull hard and in my experience if I keep 40 hfrs at weaning usually by breeding or by the time I wean the first calf I have only about 20-25 that make the cut so I have spent 2 yrs feeding a hfr that all that feed could go into a cow that is producing They way you have to figure your expense on raising that hfr is to figure how much labor goes into getting that first calf on the ground I have figured it several different ways and it cost me about $100 more to buy good hfr pairs than to raise them and if I don't keep hfrs I can run more cows on the ground that the hfrs were using and if I can't make that $100 up on 2 calf crops out of a cow whle I would be waiting on that hfr than I don't need to be in this business [/QUOTE]
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