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<blockquote data-quote="plumber_greg" data-source="post: 1198713" data-attributes="member: 9115"><p>Why buy any problems. Let's use DV's $2,000 a head price. I am currently selling 40 head of 2, 3, 4 year old cows. Won't take less than $3,000 a head, I'll keep them for less than that. There will be no culls out of them next year. I can almost guarantee that there will be, if taken care of, on dink calves. Every heifer calf will be, or will be sold at auction, as replacement quality.</p><p>Then use Hook's 30% cull rate at an auction barn. I personally think it will be closer to 40%, the next few years. Figure from that if putting something together at a sale barn is the best way.</p><p>Why take years of culling to put together a herd of cows? Just buy it now, let someone else do the work of culling and building the genetics. Sometimes, I gotta' admit I hate to sell heifers thinking that I did all the work, and someone else is getting the benefit of me buying high dollar bulls and culling my best cows. </p><p>You can get good cows at the sale barn, unknown on the maternal side, unknown on the paternal side. Breed them to the wrong bull the next year, and a otherwise good cow can screw up trying to build a herd for generations. In my opinion, building a herd from cows like that just slows the process of getting front pasture cattle. Buy quality, sell quality. gs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plumber_greg, post: 1198713, member: 9115"] Why buy any problems. Let's use DV's $2,000 a head price. I am currently selling 40 head of 2, 3, 4 year old cows. Won't take less than $3,000 a head, I'll keep them for less than that. There will be no culls out of them next year. I can almost guarantee that there will be, if taken care of, on dink calves. Every heifer calf will be, or will be sold at auction, as replacement quality. Then use Hook's 30% cull rate at an auction barn. I personally think it will be closer to 40%, the next few years. Figure from that if putting something together at a sale barn is the best way. Why take years of culling to put together a herd of cows? Just buy it now, let someone else do the work of culling and building the genetics. Sometimes, I gotta' admit I hate to sell heifers thinking that I did all the work, and someone else is getting the benefit of me buying high dollar bulls and culling my best cows. You can get good cows at the sale barn, unknown on the maternal side, unknown on the paternal side. Breed them to the wrong bull the next year, and a otherwise good cow can screw up trying to build a herd for generations. In my opinion, building a herd from cows like that just slows the process of getting front pasture cattle. Buy quality, sell quality. gs [/QUOTE]
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