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<blockquote data-quote="HerefordSire" data-source="post: 573377" data-attributes="member: 4437"><p>HerefordSire-</p><p></p><p>Perhaps I am a little vague or naive, but I have read these two posts several times, and struggled with the examples of the math, and it seems a little strange to me, with all of the weighing, scoring, conditioning, adjusting, dividing, culling, and KEEPING the heifers from the MOST efficient cows who breed back quick and maintain their condition - why would anyone deliberately retain the LEAST efficient cows? It seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron that one would selectively choose to keep INefficient producers!? Have I missed the point here somewhere?</p><p></p><p>DOC HARRIS</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Hi Doc.....did you happen, by chance, to read the prior text Brandonm22 and I exchanged (may make more sense)?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>We would not deliberately retain the least efficient cows after calving. In the example I chose to make a point, I was advocating buying 500 cows and immediately after we bought them, we would have all of the cows DNA tested for efficiency and fertility. Since Brandonm22 mentioned to leave out DNA testing, I offered to take the most efficient cows immediately after we tested them and he could have the least efficient cows immediately after we had them tested. After we did this, then we would follow Brandonm22's management plan to a "T" and see how many pounds of skull and bones were produced (meat mainly). My point was that the cow efificency depends mainly on genetics and this efficiency can be bred just like all other traits. In my opinion, this is much much more important that any weight.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HerefordSire, post: 573377, member: 4437"] HerefordSire- Perhaps I am a little vague or naive, but I have read these two posts several times, and struggled with the examples of the math, and it seems a little strange to me, with all of the weighing, scoring, conditioning, adjusting, dividing, culling, and KEEPING the heifers from the MOST efficient cows who breed back quick and maintain their condition - why would anyone deliberately retain the LEAST efficient cows? It seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron that one would selectively choose to keep INefficient producers!? Have I missed the point here somewhere? DOC HARRIS [i]Hi Doc.....did you happen, by chance, to read the prior text Brandonm22 and I exchanged (may make more sense)? We would not deliberately retain the least efficient cows after calving. In the example I chose to make a point, I was advocating buying 500 cows and immediately after we bought them, we would have all of the cows DNA tested for efficiency and fertility. Since Brandonm22 mentioned to leave out DNA testing, I offered to take the most efficient cows immediately after we tested them and he could have the least efficient cows immediately after we had them tested. After we did this, then we would follow Brandonm22's management plan to a "T" and see how many pounds of skull and bones were produced (meat mainly). My point was that the cow efificency depends mainly on genetics and this efficiency can be bred just like all other traits. In my opinion, this is much much more important that any weight.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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