Steve Banks
Well-known member
I've own cattle for about 20 years, I consider myself well informed and very intense on my mangement style. I know that this is a subjective statement, so lets agree that, I know the basics and follow them to the letter.
Since 2002 my cattle numbers have averaged around 14 head ( brood cows ). I'm very disappointed that I have lost 16 calves in that lenght of time!! (Lost meaning didn't breed, aborted, still born, dead after a few days, mostily the latter 3 ). Is this acceptable?
These animals or vac., wormed, excellent minerals and feed (all the time), controlled breeding ( 60 days), usually a body score of 6-6.5, may drop to a 5.5 after calving, but quickily returns to a 6-6.5 due to the amount and quality of feed they get. These cattle are between first calf heifers and 9 years of age, the mean average is like 4 years!
Again I know there is a lot of unknowns/questions that you would like to have, but if you could/would try to give me some insight on this, it would be appreciated.
I thinking about getting out of the cow/calf and going to stockers.
Since 2002 my cattle numbers have averaged around 14 head ( brood cows ). I'm very disappointed that I have lost 16 calves in that lenght of time!! (Lost meaning didn't breed, aborted, still born, dead after a few days, mostily the latter 3 ). Is this acceptable?
These animals or vac., wormed, excellent minerals and feed (all the time), controlled breeding ( 60 days), usually a body score of 6-6.5, may drop to a 5.5 after calving, but quickily returns to a 6-6.5 due to the amount and quality of feed they get. These cattle are between first calf heifers and 9 years of age, the mean average is like 4 years!
Again I know there is a lot of unknowns/questions that you would like to have, but if you could/would try to give me some insight on this, it would be appreciated.
I thinking about getting out of the cow/calf and going to stockers.