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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 816685" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I will second that statement. Anyyone "just starting out" (like me) doesn't really know much about cattle in the first place and ends up with a hodge podge of different types even in the same breed. So first you have to learn about your cattle and which way you want them to go and how you want and need them to look. Then you have to start the long process of getting there.</p><p></p><p>And as far as buying them the way you want, I guess I just don't see that as very likely unless you just won the lottery. Folks just don't usually sell their best cows which are probably the ones you want. And if they do its one at a time and very expensive.</p><p></p><p>I am pretty well resigned to the fact that I will have to build a herd the way I want it. And yes it will take time. But the key word in this business, it seems to me, is CULL, CULL, CULL. </p><p></p><p>It can be hard to do at first but I am sort of getting to like to cull. It feels good to come back from a trip to the sale barn selling ones you really didn't like very much to see your herd percentage wise more full of ones that you DO like. jmho.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 816685, member: 7509"] I will second that statement. Anyyone "just starting out" (like me) doesn't really know much about cattle in the first place and ends up with a hodge podge of different types even in the same breed. So first you have to learn about your cattle and which way you want them to go and how you want and need them to look. Then you have to start the long process of getting there. And as far as buying them the way you want, I guess I just don't see that as very likely unless you just won the lottery. Folks just don't usually sell their best cows which are probably the ones you want. And if they do its one at a time and very expensive. I am pretty well resigned to the fact that I will have to build a herd the way I want it. And yes it will take time. But the key word in this business, it seems to me, is CULL, CULL, CULL. It can be hard to do at first but I am sort of getting to like to cull. It feels good to come back from a trip to the sale barn selling ones you really didn't like very much to see your herd percentage wise more full of ones that you DO like. jmho. Jim [/QUOTE]
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