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<blockquote data-quote="txag" data-source="post: 252196" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>why would you cull the daughter of a <em>cow that weans a calf ever year on grass alone the weighs 650 - 700 lbs at 6 mo old</em> strictly because she's not black (your original post was only asking about color)?</p><p></p><p>being short on grass because of a drought is a pretty good reason to cull. if you had been pulling the bull out, her mama wouldn't have had a calf at all. i'm not telling you to cull her, i'm just pointing out the logic of culling this calf on the basis of your original question (color alone). if you're going to do that, then you'd also cull her dam who is off-color and (now the new culling criteria) calving in May. earlier you didn't mention what kind of calf her dam raised except to say <em>"Not one I particularly like but she always raises a real nice calf so she's stayed" </em>. there are lots of descriptions for "real nice". now that you've defined "real nice" by weaning weight, i go back to my original statement in that i surely wouldn't cull by color alone. i'd keep her before i'd keep the black daughter of a cow that weans a 400 lb calf. performance is much more important to me than color.</p><p></p><p>as to the comment about one at a time through the salebarn, your clarifying how you sell is exactly what i meant. unless you're filling an order for a uniform group & selling them that way, color isn't that big of a deal. a good red, yellow, grey calf can and will bring as much as a good black calf. now if they're dogs, then a black calf may bring more than a colored dog.</p><p></p><p>so again, to repeat myself, i like the calf & wouldn't cull her because of color alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="txag, post: 252196, member: 8"] why would you cull the daughter of a [i]cow that weans a calf ever year on grass alone the weighs 650 - 700 lbs at 6 mo old[/i] strictly because she's not black (your original post was only asking about color)? being short on grass because of a drought is a pretty good reason to cull. if you had been pulling the bull out, her mama wouldn't have had a calf at all. i'm not telling you to cull her, i'm just pointing out the logic of culling this calf on the basis of your original question (color alone). if you're going to do that, then you'd also cull her dam who is off-color and (now the new culling criteria) calving in May. earlier you didn't mention what kind of calf her dam raised except to say [i]"Not one I particularly like but she always raises a real nice calf so she's stayed" [/i]. there are lots of descriptions for "real nice". now that you've defined "real nice" by weaning weight, i go back to my original statement in that i surely wouldn't cull by color alone. i'd keep her before i'd keep the black daughter of a cow that weans a 400 lb calf. performance is much more important to me than color. as to the comment about one at a time through the salebarn, your clarifying how you sell is exactly what i meant. unless you're filling an order for a uniform group & selling them that way, color isn't that big of a deal. a good red, yellow, grey calf can and will bring as much as a good black calf. now if they're dogs, then a black calf may bring more than a colored dog. so again, to repeat myself, i like the calf & wouldn't cull her because of color alone. [/QUOTE]
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