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<blockquote data-quote="TLCfromARK" data-source="post: 27311" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>We sell most of our calves at a sale barn, a few go to friends/family for freezer beef and a few heifers go for replacements to people who have bought from us before or are starting out. </p><p></p><p> Most of us have a limited amount of grazing and if you keep too many replacement heifers you have to "cull" your herd of cows. While some of these are true "culls", a little slow to breed back, doesn't milk as well as you'd like, teats are getting bigger every year, etc. most are sold just because something has to go to make room for younger stock. It could be because of color, size, getting a little older, not quite as gentle as another or even because your wife/grandkids likes one over the other. As my old Dad likes to say,"You can't keep them all". </p><p></p><p> Bottom line, you can find good cattle at a sale barn ( as more than one poster has said " One man's culls is another man's keeper") but if you make a mistake and buy something that doesn't work out for what ever reason, send them back down the road.</p><p> ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TLCfromARK, post: 27311, member: 198"] We sell most of our calves at a sale barn, a few go to friends/family for freezer beef and a few heifers go for replacements to people who have bought from us before or are starting out. Most of us have a limited amount of grazing and if you keep too many replacement heifers you have to "cull" your herd of cows. While some of these are true "culls", a little slow to breed back, doesn't milk as well as you'd like, teats are getting bigger every year, etc. most are sold just because something has to go to make room for younger stock. It could be because of color, size, getting a little older, not quite as gentle as another or even because your wife/grandkids likes one over the other. As my old Dad likes to say,"You can't keep them all". Bottom line, you can find good cattle at a sale barn ( as more than one poster has said " One man's culls is another man's keeper") but if you make a mistake and buy something that doesn't work out for what ever reason, send them back down the road. ;-) [/QUOTE]
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