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<blockquote data-quote="Northern Rancher" data-source="post: 829472" data-attributes="member: 5898"><p>I have just started an interesting chapter in my life-I took over management of a fairly large outfit-were calving 650 and breeding 850. I'm giving my son Ty a chance to get his feet wet at the home place without Dad looking over his shoulder. He is also my only cowboy at the bigger outfit. The owner has given me the go ahead to clean house and turn the cowherd into a more efficient trouble free group of cattle. The main mature cowherd of 450 head is pretty much straight black and I don't know much about them or the history of the bulls other than pedigree and epd's. Were selecting our replacements at birth-if the cow is sound-mothers well and is not crazy we tag those heifers yellow rest get pink-were tagging maybe 20% yellow in this bunch. Alot of udders are just on the edge of what I consider acceptable-not knowing if the bulls used before would fix udders were erring on the side of caution-I'm going to pull 25% off the bottom and can them-25% off the top to retain and the middle half are going to be dispersed this fall. I have bought 7 pretty good Horned Hereford bulls that will go on the best Angus cows to raise baldies. We have 200 baldy yearlings that were going to breed black as well. Were just getting going calving steady-tagged 15 frshies this morning-the cows are out on a good calving field a section of carryover grass-they get moved pretty quick. Were selling a bunch of iron and going to bale grazing and using horses so its a fun time here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northern Rancher, post: 829472, member: 5898"] I have just started an interesting chapter in my life-I took over management of a fairly large outfit-were calving 650 and breeding 850. I'm giving my son Ty a chance to get his feet wet at the home place without Dad looking over his shoulder. He is also my only cowboy at the bigger outfit. The owner has given me the go ahead to clean house and turn the cowherd into a more efficient trouble free group of cattle. The main mature cowherd of 450 head is pretty much straight black and I don't know much about them or the history of the bulls other than pedigree and epd's. Were selecting our replacements at birth-if the cow is sound-mothers well and is not crazy we tag those heifers yellow rest get pink-were tagging maybe 20% yellow in this bunch. Alot of udders are just on the edge of what I consider acceptable-not knowing if the bulls used before would fix udders were erring on the side of caution-I'm going to pull 25% off the bottom and can them-25% off the top to retain and the middle half are going to be dispersed this fall. I have bought 7 pretty good Horned Hereford bulls that will go on the best Angus cows to raise baldies. We have 200 baldy yearlings that were going to breed black as well. Were just getting going calving steady-tagged 15 frshies this morning-the cows are out on a good calving field a section of carryover grass-they get moved pretty quick. Were selling a bunch of iron and going to bale grazing and using horses so its a fun time here. [/QUOTE]
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