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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1742731" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>You get six hundred pound weaning weights by targeting your cows. I specifically looked for older cows being culled from herds that had 600 pound calves at their side. I was helping the vets at the sales barns when they were preg checking and knew which cows came in with calves, what the calves looked like and weighed, and if the cows were carrying a calf. A little inside information and help from the auctioneers worked for me very well. By the time they raised the next calf I could choose which to put my own bulls on and which to cull. My average cow lasted between two and three years but I'd resell them for what I paid and the heifers went into my replacement heifer program, grouped for uniformity. If a cow didn't raise a 600 pound calf she was gone. Being careful in buying I didn't cull many for underweight calves. One thing about older cows is that they could take a bull that threw larger calves though I still chose bulls that threw average weights or less. So the cow was the harder part of building high weaning weights but that's were the success is IMO.</p><p></p><p>And I didn't supplement feed at all other than calling my cows in every evening with enough sweet feed to get them to come in. A mineral block always available and changed out depending on when the grass came on, and that's it. Good mixed grass, clover, and alfalfa pasture and hay from the same fields. Rotational grazing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1742731, member: 42463"] You get six hundred pound weaning weights by targeting your cows. I specifically looked for older cows being culled from herds that had 600 pound calves at their side. I was helping the vets at the sales barns when they were preg checking and knew which cows came in with calves, what the calves looked like and weighed, and if the cows were carrying a calf. A little inside information and help from the auctioneers worked for me very well. By the time they raised the next calf I could choose which to put my own bulls on and which to cull. My average cow lasted between two and three years but I'd resell them for what I paid and the heifers went into my replacement heifer program, grouped for uniformity. If a cow didn't raise a 600 pound calf she was gone. Being careful in buying I didn't cull many for underweight calves. One thing about older cows is that they could take a bull that threw larger calves though I still chose bulls that threw average weights or less. So the cow was the harder part of building high weaning weights but that's were the success is IMO. And I didn't supplement feed at all other than calling my cows in every evening with enough sweet feed to get them to come in. A mineral block always available and changed out depending on when the grass came on, and that's it. Good mixed grass, clover, and alfalfa pasture and hay from the same fields. Rotational grazing. [/QUOTE]
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