Son of Butch
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I'd suggest choice for $1,000 CAD$ and/or all to go $950I posted at $1,000 a piece and got about 25 interested parties.
I'd suggest choice for $1,000 CAD$ and/or all to go $950I posted at $1,000 a piece and got about 25 interested parties.
Sounds like a good plan actually, so in the off year do u keep all or .......I keep heifers for myself every other year. This is my year to sell. I have a few neighbors that know that. I single out my best 12-15, and sell them for $150 over market. Occasionally, I will deem 4 or 5 too nice to sell (look good, and out of my best cows). I don't feel like that's an unfair price, for a quality replacement heifer. I will actually background what I don't sell, and add $150 in value to them.
I usually keep 15 or so. Some times more, sometimes less. Kept 18 last year.Sounds like a good plan actually, so in the off year do u keep all or .......
The guide lines are really to vague for the program to be called CAB. I know guys that have had straight bred Holsteins go CAB (this was back when Tyson still killed Holsteins). Most breeds of cattle will cut if you feed them right.CAB requires a lot more than just color.
You really need to disclose the Holstein part. Nothing wrong with the mix, but it's very deceptive to claim they're just Angus. Even "Angus cross" would be better than nothing.
Before you said 1/4 holstein? And that does make a big difference to most buyers.I do. I am not selling a pure bred animal. But 1/8 Holstein is hardly Holstein.
I must have misspoke...Before you said 1/4 holstein? And that does make a big difference to most buyers.
It's pretty obvious in some of them the dairy influence. 1/4 does matter. 1/8 does matter...now that can be a good thing or a bad thing. You have to chose the right cows and the right bulls from the breeds that compliment each other. Personally I would have used an Angus bull with very different characteristics than you have chosen to. They would fall apart fast with the forage I have here.
I agree with what others here said...you describing them like you did was dishonest. Calling them Angus X or even commercial Angus would be better than how you chose to describe them.
Some continental breeds can do the same thing. Cross breeding effects start at conception.Speaking from experience. Having a 1/4 Holstein can sneak up on you and have a giant economy size calf and it won't matter what bull you use. It won't happen all the time but it is most certainly a possibility. I have lost a couple Holstein cross heifers over the years.