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<blockquote data-quote="Willow Springs" data-source="post: 1183429" data-attributes="member: 9002"><p>I think you need to pick a direction in terms of the "type" of program you want (which it sounds like you have), make sure that is the direction you want to go (sometimes it takes a few years to decide, but it sounds like you want to avoid this due to your age) and then find the programs that match your eye in terms of traits (a good udder to some is not good enough to others) and management. Then you can maybe take a bit of a shortcut by purchasing females from the herd(s), or at the very least have a source for bulls that won't lose you a generation because they were not what you expected after his daughters got to be five years old. Even then they won't all work out as everyone has a different environment (nature & man-made), but a person has to start somewhere and you either start with what is closest to what you want, or buy generic cheaper cows and spend a lot of time just getting them near where you could have started.</p><p></p><p>I wish I would have done this; would've saved me a lot of time and money. But too often the young people get caught up with the flash & splash of the show ring (I grew up with it), fancy semen catalogues and breed magazine ads. which all have increasingly little to do with trouble free, quality animals for beef production (especially structure & maternal traits).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willow Springs, post: 1183429, member: 9002"] I think you need to pick a direction in terms of the "type" of program you want (which it sounds like you have), make sure that is the direction you want to go (sometimes it takes a few years to decide, but it sounds like you want to avoid this due to your age) and then find the programs that match your eye in terms of traits (a good udder to some is not good enough to others) and management. Then you can maybe take a bit of a shortcut by purchasing females from the herd(s), or at the very least have a source for bulls that won't lose you a generation because they were not what you expected after his daughters got to be five years old. Even then they won't all work out as everyone has a different environment (nature & man-made), but a person has to start somewhere and you either start with what is closest to what you want, or buy generic cheaper cows and spend a lot of time just getting them near where you could have started. I wish I would have done this; would've saved me a lot of time and money. But too often the young people get caught up with the flash & splash of the show ring (I grew up with it), fancy semen catalogues and breed magazine ads. which all have increasingly little to do with trouble free, quality animals for beef production (especially structure & maternal traits). [/QUOTE]
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