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<blockquote data-quote="ANAZAZI" data-source="post: 1205979" data-attributes="member: 7541"><p>I also cull young cows hard; not because they are in any way useless, but simply because I have older cows doing it better. If I am to keep a cow it should at least equal the older cows, and not all of the young ones can do that.</p><p>By culling some of the "worst" first and second calvers the quality of that age group goes up.</p><p><span style="color: #0000BF">If I do my job as a cattleman right the younger age groups should be better than the older age groups, at least after I have culled them, but then again the older age groups are also getting better and better as they are culled again and again through the years.</span></p><p>From the older more proven cows comes the heifers and bulls I keep for replacement.</p><p></p><p>By selling all of my fourth to sixth calvers to others I would be wasting all of my herd progress.</p><p></p><p>Where does the "progress" come from then? One can always reason that the progress comes from other farms through their bulls. Let us just hope that the breeders of these bulls do not think like you then, for what would it mean if they too waste their best cows at six to eight years old? :bang: :bang:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ANAZAZI, post: 1205979, member: 7541"] I also cull young cows hard; not because they are in any way useless, but simply because I have older cows doing it better. If I am to keep a cow it should at least equal the older cows, and not all of the young ones can do that. By culling some of the "worst" first and second calvers the quality of that age group goes up. [color=#0000BF]If I do my job as a cattleman right the younger age groups should be better than the older age groups, at least after I have culled them, but then again the older age groups are also getting better and better as they are culled again and again through the years.[/color] From the older more proven cows comes the heifers and bulls I keep for replacement. By selling all of my fourth to sixth calvers to others I would be wasting all of my herd progress. Where does the "progress" come from then? One can always reason that the progress comes from other farms through their bulls. Let us just hope that the breeders of these bulls do not think like you then, for what would it mean if they too waste their best cows at six to eight years old? :bang: :bang: [/QUOTE]
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