kickinbull
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If you want to purchase a bull possibly one of you neighbors has one for sale.
BC Acres":1i1sf1va said:You may very well be right, but I'm going to give it a shot. If it doesn't take, maybe I will buy a bull this fall and make my girls fall calvers. You live and you learn.
Son of Butch":1rs62ota said:IF you A.I. I'd definitely choose the Select Sires tech over the vet.
The Select guys I've known have been good and will point you in the right direction on sire choices. They also carry
Ka-Mar Heat Detector patches, so you can buy 5 or 10 instead of a box of 50 to aid you in observing standing heats.
By the by
At our local sale barn there is a vet on duty, if you buy a young slaughter bull you can run him right to the vet for bse
and semen test. If by chance he would fail you can put him back in the ring for slaughter without ever having to take
him home.... just saying...
BC Acres":2hc7uhk2 said:You guys have been a lot of help. I called my vet and he does AI rvice. I would have to take my cows to him. Haven't heard back from him yet, but I have heard from his secretary. I also called Select Sires and found the tech that services my area. He seems like a very nice guy and is very helpful. He told me to plan on $50-$60 per head depending on the bull I select. They would come out a second time too since I don't have a cover bull. The tech is only about 30 min from my house. I may give it a whirl and see how it goes.
Anyone have any experience with some of the bulls select sires offers? Right now I sell weaned calves at the barn so I want decent weaning weights and something that puts out good heifers in add I want to retain some. Thanks!
dun":1136araz said:Higher weaning weight potential can cost you money at selling time if the cow doesn;t have the milk to allow the calf to reach it's potential. Without adequate milk the calf will look like a poor doer and will bring less at the barn.
That's one of the traps of chasing higher weaning weights
dun":2i5mt6jb said:Uniformity, frame and muscle. Find out if any of the barns have a value added type of sale for weaned preconditioned vaccinated calves. If there is one, do whatever they require to make that sale. You might not in the first year or 2 get much more then you ahve in them. But after you have a reputation for the right type of cattle you will end up getting a little more then the run of the mill calves thatare in the sale.
+1 :nod:bse":21o95vbs said:If there's no heifers, I wouldn't use the high CED LBW bulls, there's really no need.