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<blockquote data-quote="jersey lilly" data-source="post: 252296" data-attributes="member: 2258"><p>txag "performance is much more important to me than color."</p><p></p><p>As it is here. I wouldnt keep a cow that weaned a 400 lb 6 mo old calf no matter what color she was. She'd be one of the first one's to go. </p><p></p><p>I guess, with my original post, with so much I didnt say. We are keeping about 20 black brangus heifers for replacements, every year. Would you keep this one in that bunch, or send her on down the road? is what I was gettin at. Her dam will eventually be culled. Just a matter of time (what it basically boils down to is how long it takes us to get the replacement heifers from the other cows that are black to fill the places of the colored cows we are still carryin over every year. We've already culled based on "no calf" "poor calf" etc thru the years. So all the cows here are productive and makin us a profit. When we cull now, first one's that are on the list to look at for culling are the older cows. Then based on what kinda calf they raise, and what color the cow is. Example....if I've got a 14 year old black cow that's raisin a good calf, and a 14 year old red or whiteface cow that's raisin a good calf. The one I'm gonna cull first isn't gonna be the black one. It'll be the one's that are red or whiteface or yellow if she falls into the age of cows I'm lookin at to replace. Course there's sometimes a black cow that might not be holdin up condition as well as I'd like....so she might be the one that gets a ride to town instead of say this yellow cow that is this calf's mama. </p><p></p><p>Does this make more sense? LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jersey lilly, post: 252296, member: 2258"] txag "performance is much more important to me than color." As it is here. I wouldnt keep a cow that weaned a 400 lb 6 mo old calf no matter what color she was. She'd be one of the first one's to go. I guess, with my original post, with so much I didnt say. We are keeping about 20 black brangus heifers for replacements, every year. Would you keep this one in that bunch, or send her on down the road? is what I was gettin at. Her dam will eventually be culled. Just a matter of time (what it basically boils down to is how long it takes us to get the replacement heifers from the other cows that are black to fill the places of the colored cows we are still carryin over every year. We've already culled based on "no calf" "poor calf" etc thru the years. So all the cows here are productive and makin us a profit. When we cull now, first one's that are on the list to look at for culling are the older cows. Then based on what kinda calf they raise, and what color the cow is. Example....if I've got a 14 year old black cow that's raisin a good calf, and a 14 year old red or whiteface cow that's raisin a good calf. The one I'm gonna cull first isn't gonna be the black one. It'll be the one's that are red or whiteface or yellow if she falls into the age of cows I'm lookin at to replace. Course there's sometimes a black cow that might not be holdin up condition as well as I'd like....so she might be the one that gets a ride to town instead of say this yellow cow that is this calf's mama. Does this make more sense? LOL [/QUOTE]
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