KMacGinley
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Herefords.US":3751izjx said:DOC HARRIS":3751izjx said:This particular white-faced cow is not as non-productive as many others around the country are, but she certainly could be a MUCH more profitable producer than she is presently, whatever your excuses for her may be, and being 'Barn Blind' is not a profitable characteristic for ANY BEEF producer to possess - particularly in these days of high land values, high pasture costs, and high FEED costs.
There are plenty of terrific replacement heifers on the market TODAY (February 2, 2009) - if you will take the bit in your teeth and will just jump in and get your feet wet!
DOC HARRIS
Let's see! JHH said she breeds back regularly and she's raised a decent looking calf that was about 60% of her own weight at 6 months of age, even though she doesn't appear to be helped all that much by the bull she was bred to.
Call me "barn-blind" if you want, but I see "moneymaker" when I look at her.
And I'd certainly give any heifers she had at least a chance at staying around, assuming they were by a bull whose daughters I would want to keep. I'm not at all sure many of those replacement heifers for sale "on the market" will outperform them.
George
I have to go with George on this one. That is one productive cow, she has milker written all over her, which is fine, but often those high milking cows don't breed back, with her you have won the lottery if she continues to do the job. If you get a heifer out of her, I would definetly give the daughter a try, she may not live up to her mother's performance but she just might too. Those little high producing cows efficient cows are money makers.