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<blockquote data-quote="jersey lilly" data-source="post: 252526" data-attributes="member: 2258"><p>Ya'll are gonna laff ....."Where did you get your cows to start with??" </p><p></p><p>Well About 15 or so years ago, We fed cows thru the winter for hubby's great uncle. He was in his 80s. He paid us with one bred heifer. That spring, we wired a house for another uncle, he paid us with one bred heifer, I don't remember exactly how we ended up with the third heifer. 1 hereford, 2 long horn hereford crosses. But anyway, we started out with three bred heifers ( bred to a black brangus bull). Kept nearly all heifer calves from then until about 5 years ago. Then we started saving only the good black hiefers. 2 years ago, we bought a herd from a man who was gettin outta the cow business. 34 cows, 32 calves, 2 bulls.(the other two cows had their calves after we moved them home) We now are to our limit. 120 head of mama's. I've bought more thru private treaty than thru any of the replacement sales. Most times they go for way more than I'm willin to pay for a cow. But I have bought a few over the years.</p><p></p><p>Alabama, we are at about 70% black now, so it won't be 14 years more till we are all black. If this one is kept, and bred, she may stay a few years, and she may not. Just depends on what kinda calf she has and raises and at what point we decide to send her down the road. yes if I kept that 1 heifer for 14 years I see where your comin from LOL but She won't stay that long. When it gets to the point that we have enuff replacement heifers, all the others of color will go on a trailer to the salebarn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jersey lilly, post: 252526, member: 2258"] Ya'll are gonna laff ....."Where did you get your cows to start with??" Well About 15 or so years ago, We fed cows thru the winter for hubby's great uncle. He was in his 80s. He paid us with one bred heifer. That spring, we wired a house for another uncle, he paid us with one bred heifer, I don't remember exactly how we ended up with the third heifer. 1 hereford, 2 long horn hereford crosses. But anyway, we started out with three bred heifers ( bred to a black brangus bull). Kept nearly all heifer calves from then until about 5 years ago. Then we started saving only the good black hiefers. 2 years ago, we bought a herd from a man who was gettin outta the cow business. 34 cows, 32 calves, 2 bulls.(the other two cows had their calves after we moved them home) We now are to our limit. 120 head of mama's. I've bought more thru private treaty than thru any of the replacement sales. Most times they go for way more than I'm willin to pay for a cow. But I have bought a few over the years. Alabama, we are at about 70% black now, so it won't be 14 years more till we are all black. If this one is kept, and bred, she may stay a few years, and she may not. Just depends on what kinda calf she has and raises and at what point we decide to send her down the road. yes if I kept that 1 heifer for 14 years I see where your comin from LOL but She won't stay that long. When it gets to the point that we have enuff replacement heifers, all the others of color will go on a trailer to the salebarn. [/QUOTE]
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