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<blockquote data-quote="Son of Butch" data-source="post: 1222221" data-attributes="member: 14585"><p>Decent bulls can be bought for $6000 or less.</p><p><strong>A penny saved is a penny earned</strong></p><p>Even if you think $1200 calves [$864 calves after income tax] are here to stay for the next 5 yrs, it is no reason to pound money down a rat hole. It's human nature to love hearing 'easy money.' That's what bull sellers do, whispering a siren's sound of </p><p>"easiest money you'll ever make, just spend more money on a new bull." </p><p>No bull seller will like hearing it, but the more I go through the numbers the more convinced I am that anyone running less than a 26:1 cow to bull ratio and selling all of their weaned calves are pounding money down a rat hole if they paid more than $6,000 for any bull in their pasture with less than +6 ced and 61 ww with less than 60% genetic accuracy. AAA sire evaluation search lists only 100 meeting the criteria and darn hard to come by outside of A.I. studs. There are better places for the majority of commercial ranchers to invest their money; than in what amounts to an over priced low accuracy unproven bull.</p><p>For a bull to be worth more than $6000 he needs to be not only proven geneticly superior, but he needs to be contributing to the herd genetics through replacements.</p><p>"A penny saved is a penny earned" is the song of common sense. </p><p>"You've got to spend money to make money" is the song of someone trying to get their hand in your pocket.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Son of Butch, post: 1222221, member: 14585"] Decent bulls can be bought for $6000 or less. [b]A penny saved is a penny earned[/b] Even if you think $1200 calves [$864 calves after income tax] are here to stay for the next 5 yrs, it is no reason to pound money down a rat hole. It's human nature to love hearing 'easy money.' That's what bull sellers do, whispering a siren's sound of "easiest money you'll ever make, just spend more money on a new bull." No bull seller will like hearing it, but the more I go through the numbers the more convinced I am that anyone running less than a 26:1 cow to bull ratio and selling all of their weaned calves are pounding money down a rat hole if they paid more than $6,000 for any bull in their pasture with less than +6 ced and 61 ww with less than 60% genetic accuracy. AAA sire evaluation search lists only 100 meeting the criteria and darn hard to come by outside of A.I. studs. There are better places for the majority of commercial ranchers to invest their money; than in what amounts to an over priced low accuracy unproven bull. For a bull to be worth more than $6000 he needs to be not only proven geneticly superior, but he needs to be contributing to the herd genetics through replacements. "A penny saved is a penny earned" is the song of common sense. "You've got to spend money to make money" is the song of someone trying to get their hand in your pocket. [/QUOTE]
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