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<blockquote data-quote="Bez+" data-source="post: 667719" data-attributes="member: 6797"><p>Straight and commercial Horned Herfs</p><p></p><p>I have only ever kept one bull for myself - sold about two to three on an average year - but they better be dammed good or they get cut. All the rest go to slaughter - no matter the breeding.</p><p></p><p>Papers does not make a good animal - wish more people would realize that.</p><p></p><p>Last few years year we kept no heifers - not a one made my cut - as we downsized and I got older I got pickier - we have two keepers this year according to my wife.</p><p></p><p>Sold about a dozen heifers to a neighbour a few years ago who liked them - I told him outright I did not like them and would take them back at the same price up to one year from purchase. He kept them all. One turned out real nice - sorry I let her go - the rest are solid average working cows. All were commercial - I sold all the purebreds for slaughter.</p><p></p><p>Once upon a time when we were raising cattle in the triple digit numbers I might keep 15 or 20 heifers - at the most. I never advertised bulls - folks wanted them they could come and look - otherwise we cut them at weaning.</p><p></p><p>I buy in genetics from the bull - keep them for four years and sell them - or kill them and will look around for heifers / cows to bring in but only if I need them - and only after I see their parents and their off spring and they pass MY vets examination. We seldom brought in or bring in cows or heifers though - the culls we had were almost always covered by the young stock we kept. </p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p></p><p>Bez</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bez+, post: 667719, member: 6797"] Straight and commercial Horned Herfs I have only ever kept one bull for myself - sold about two to three on an average year - but they better be dammed good or they get cut. All the rest go to slaughter - no matter the breeding. Papers does not make a good animal - wish more people would realize that. Last few years year we kept no heifers - not a one made my cut - as we downsized and I got older I got pickier - we have two keepers this year according to my wife. Sold about a dozen heifers to a neighbour a few years ago who liked them - I told him outright I did not like them and would take them back at the same price up to one year from purchase. He kept them all. One turned out real nice - sorry I let her go - the rest are solid average working cows. All were commercial - I sold all the purebreds for slaughter. Once upon a time when we were raising cattle in the triple digit numbers I might keep 15 or 20 heifers - at the most. I never advertised bulls - folks wanted them they could come and look - otherwise we cut them at weaning. I buy in genetics from the bull - keep them for four years and sell them - or kill them and will look around for heifers / cows to bring in but only if I need them - and only after I see their parents and their off spring and they pass MY vets examination. We seldom brought in or bring in cows or heifers though - the culls we had were almost always covered by the young stock we kept. Cheers Bez [/QUOTE]
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