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<blockquote data-quote="TheBullLady" data-source="post: 667613" data-attributes="member: 173"><p>1) Simmentals and Simbrahs</p><p></p><p>2) I've raised one bull calf in the past five years for resale... bull markets are tough to get into, and unless you consign to a registered sale, hard to sell from your pasture. It's equally as hard to get an exceptional one! You have to be really critical of your own cattle to make wise decisions concerning what is good enough for breeding stock, and you also need to know your market and what your customers are looking for.</p><p></p><p>We generally feed out one a year... don't have the time to spend to do a bunch of them. Also sell a few as show steers to local kids, but the kids have sure changed in the past few years! Very few want to work that hard it seems.</p><p></p><p>3) Depends on a lot of things.. how many head we have, what the pasture looks like, what prices are, etc. etc. If we can make a good profit selling the heifers, we will. If we have some good ones and the market is low, and plenty of pasture, we'll retain some.. but only the best ones. Last year we retained two heifers.. one out of a cow I'm going to ship this year (old) and the other out of a former show heifer. The year before we held back 11.. which is the most we've kept for years. But the cow herd is getting older, and we've been shipping some of the old ones, so we have room for some replacements now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBullLady, post: 667613, member: 173"] 1) Simmentals and Simbrahs 2) I've raised one bull calf in the past five years for resale... bull markets are tough to get into, and unless you consign to a registered sale, hard to sell from your pasture. It's equally as hard to get an exceptional one! You have to be really critical of your own cattle to make wise decisions concerning what is good enough for breeding stock, and you also need to know your market and what your customers are looking for. We generally feed out one a year... don't have the time to spend to do a bunch of them. Also sell a few as show steers to local kids, but the kids have sure changed in the past few years! Very few want to work that hard it seems. 3) Depends on a lot of things.. how many head we have, what the pasture looks like, what prices are, etc. etc. If we can make a good profit selling the heifers, we will. If we have some good ones and the market is low, and plenty of pasture, we'll retain some.. but only the best ones. Last year we retained two heifers.. one out of a cow I'm going to ship this year (old) and the other out of a former show heifer. The year before we held back 11.. which is the most we've kept for years. But the cow herd is getting older, and we've been shipping some of the old ones, so we have room for some replacements now. [/QUOTE]
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