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<blockquote data-quote="tom4018" data-source="post: 48661" data-attributes="member: 55"><p>We run a small herd that is about half spring and half fall calvers. As we bought cows when we started we got some fall and spring calvers and have left them that way, but have tightened our calving season up some. My uncle, who I considered my mentor (passed away 6 years ago),always believed in having a herd that split with fall and spring, his thought was that hopefully if the market went bad once that maybe it would recover by the time he sold the other half of his calves. I like having the income spread out, but we have started keeping better records in the last couple of years and it seems our weights are a little less on fall calves. Maybe thats due to less grass and having hay instead. We use very little grain unless they are bottle raised calves. We do try to stockpile grass in the fall. Hope this helps some. Its just the way we do, sometimes we do things wrong but then again we are always learning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tom4018, post: 48661, member: 55"] We run a small herd that is about half spring and half fall calvers. As we bought cows when we started we got some fall and spring calvers and have left them that way, but have tightened our calving season up some. My uncle, who I considered my mentor (passed away 6 years ago),always believed in having a herd that split with fall and spring, his thought was that hopefully if the market went bad once that maybe it would recover by the time he sold the other half of his calves. I like having the income spread out, but we have started keeping better records in the last couple of years and it seems our weights are a little less on fall calves. Maybe thats due to less grass and having hay instead. We use very little grain unless they are bottle raised calves. We do try to stockpile grass in the fall. Hope this helps some. Its just the way we do, sometimes we do things wrong but then again we are always learning. [/QUOTE]
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