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<blockquote data-quote="showing71" data-source="post: 667867" data-attributes="member: 11621"><p>1. Red Angus, Angus, Tarentaise, and crosses of the three.</p><p></p><p>2. All the cross bred bull calves are banded at birth, so they are all sent to the feedlot or are sold as beef privately. All purebreds are left intact (unless they have too high of BWs) until weaning. At weaning, we band the bulls who aren't looking the best and they go to the feedlot with the steers after a couple of weeks of backgrounding. The bulls then get weeded out further a couple months later, and some more are banded. By the time they are ready for sale, we have approx. 30% of the bulls that were born that make the cut to be sold or kept for breeding (30-40 head usually). The number of bulls for each breed depends the individual bulls, (we don't keep 10 angus just because they're angus) they have to be the best of the best to keep their parts. The bulls that don't get placed as yearlings are kept for herd bulls for a year, and then usually sold as 2 yr. olds. We have kept bulls throughout the years that we just can't let go because they would work well with our breeding program.</p><p></p><p>3. The percentage of heifers kept varies from year to year based on the number of cows going to town or being sold. After weaning, about 30% go to the feedlot or are fed out by us and sold privately. Then, like the bulls, after being on feed for a couple of months, we walk through them and pick the heifers apart and decide on who stays and who goes. But we usually end up keeping about 50% of the heifers (about 40 head is the goal). There's no bias against one breed or cross breed over the other when choosing who stays, it is just based on the heifer individually. What the moms have done in the past also come into play on deciding who gets kept. As far as selling, we will sell some heifers of any breed, but not the best of the best. We also won't sell if several cows hit the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="showing71, post: 667867, member: 11621"] 1. Red Angus, Angus, Tarentaise, and crosses of the three. 2. All the cross bred bull calves are banded at birth, so they are all sent to the feedlot or are sold as beef privately. All purebreds are left intact (unless they have too high of BWs) until weaning. At weaning, we band the bulls who aren't looking the best and they go to the feedlot with the steers after a couple of weeks of backgrounding. The bulls then get weeded out further a couple months later, and some more are banded. By the time they are ready for sale, we have approx. 30% of the bulls that were born that make the cut to be sold or kept for breeding (30-40 head usually). The number of bulls for each breed depends the individual bulls, (we don't keep 10 angus just because they're angus) they have to be the best of the best to keep their parts. The bulls that don't get placed as yearlings are kept for herd bulls for a year, and then usually sold as 2 yr. olds. We have kept bulls throughout the years that we just can't let go because they would work well with our breeding program. 3. The percentage of heifers kept varies from year to year based on the number of cows going to town or being sold. After weaning, about 30% go to the feedlot or are fed out by us and sold privately. Then, like the bulls, after being on feed for a couple of months, we walk through them and pick the heifers apart and decide on who stays and who goes. But we usually end up keeping about 50% of the heifers (about 40 head is the goal). There's no bias against one breed or cross breed over the other when choosing who stays, it is just based on the heifer individually. What the moms have done in the past also come into play on deciding who gets kept. As far as selling, we will sell some heifers of any breed, but not the best of the best. We also won't sell if several cows hit the road. [/QUOTE]
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