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<blockquote data-quote="Bcompton53" data-source="post: 1596973" data-attributes="member: 38094"><p>We rebuilt a herd from the sale barn a few years back. Bought 16 head I think. We had very poor success with red and white heifers. They were either stupid...I mean STUPID. Like one would run you over, one would kick, and one would run straight into a fence for no reason at all. And these came from a couple different farms. We of course had a couple angus cross heifers that ended up being wild. I don't tolerate wild at all. Our best heifers were black white face. This was the mix</p><p>3 Shorthorn X</p><p>3 BWF</p><p>6 angus X</p><p>2 Hereford X</p><p>1 UNK black and white heifer</p><p>1 RWF</p><p></p><p>Of those we culled/or....died</p><p>2 Shorthorn X (one wouldn't breed, one died of unknown causes after having a dink calf, and would have been culled)</p><p>1 bwf came up open</p><p>1 angus X didn't breed, and was NUTS</p><p>2 Hereford X One was just stupid, and one didn't breed back (and kicked.....badly)</p><p>1 unk black and white heifer, she jumped fences, and came up open</p><p></p><p>So we kept the rest, that's a 44% cull rate. However, now we have a pretty good set of cows. We did get 3 calves from the culled cows</p><p></p><p>As you can see, the angus did the best, but this is a pretty small sample size.</p><p>I've always heard to buy in groups. Most of the angus were from 1 bunch for what it's worth. Personally I would try to time the heifer purchase so you can breed and preg check before putting tons of winter feed into the ones you end up culling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bcompton53, post: 1596973, member: 38094"] We rebuilt a herd from the sale barn a few years back. Bought 16 head I think. We had very poor success with red and white heifers. They were either stupid...I mean STUPID. Like one would run you over, one would kick, and one would run straight into a fence for no reason at all. And these came from a couple different farms. We of course had a couple angus cross heifers that ended up being wild. I don't tolerate wild at all. Our best heifers were black white face. This was the mix 3 Shorthorn X 3 BWF 6 angus X 2 Hereford X 1 UNK black and white heifer 1 RWF Of those we culled/or....died 2 Shorthorn X (one wouldn't breed, one died of unknown causes after having a dink calf, and would have been culled) 1 bwf came up open 1 angus X didn't breed, and was NUTS 2 Hereford X One was just stupid, and one didn't breed back (and kicked.....badly) 1 unk black and white heifer, she jumped fences, and came up open So we kept the rest, that's a 44% cull rate. However, now we have a pretty good set of cows. We did get 3 calves from the culled cows As you can see, the angus did the best, but this is a pretty small sample size. I've always heard to buy in groups. Most of the angus were from 1 bunch for what it's worth. Personally I would try to time the heifer purchase so you can breed and preg check before putting tons of winter feed into the ones you end up culling. [/QUOTE]
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