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cowboyup

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I like the looks of your bulls justin, but personally I like the milk up around 26. around here my cows work on raising a calf for 6 months so I want them to raise a 600 to 650 pound calf and they can't do that without milk.
 

Justin

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Hereford76- i'm not sure yet, but i'm thinking of using these bulls on the 3 year olds, which would be about 60-70 hd. i turn bulls out for 60 days. i may shorten up the breeding season a bit this year :?

cowboyup- for me 26 is to much milk. its all in the mating of course, but i don't see any reason that the daughters of these bull shouldn't be able to wean a 600+ pound calf. and like FH said, a cow producing the kind of milk you like to see, is not going to do it for little or nothin'.IMHO :)
 

Hereford76

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Justin said:
cowboyup- for me 26 is to much milk. its all in the mating of course, but i don't see any reason that the daughters of these bull shouldn't be able to wean a 600+ pound calf. and like FH said, a cow producing the kind of milk you like to see, is not going to do it for little or nothin'.IMHO :)

maybe i'm wrong but cowboy up to me has a valid point for those milk traits - if those cows only work 6 months and wean 600+ calf yes it won't be or nothing but if he can shut it off at six months and pick back up what he took out of the cows in their down time and maybe fit his grazing deal that would make some sense too if those girls have any do-ability to them at all.
 

Justin

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good point Hereford76. i guess what i meant is that i don't feel a cow with that much milk would work very well in my situation. i don't have enough grass or hay to support that kind of cow. not that i don't have a few like that, just not very many. i would rather have a cow with modest milk and puts more into keeping herself is good shape all year long without alot of feed, than one that produces a ton of milk but lacks fleshing ability. everyones situation is different, so this may be only relative to mine.
 

cowboyup

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I know my range is different than others but it is high desert basically here in the mountains and isn't near as good as a lot of country I have been in. I start calving the 20th of march and wean the middle of september. Right now I have my cows on 18 pounds of oat alfalfa hay and the grass that the hoppers left and they are mud fat. the pasture that they are picking on I usually summer the cows in but the grass wouldn't grow last summer and I had to move the cows off the first of july, so not exactly great country. Nothing I hate worse than seeing is a big old fat cow with a little calf at her side cuz she isn't giving him enough.
 

Justin

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Northern Rancher said:
How Did the Mo'Co's look?

sorry i missed this NR. to be honest i didn't look at the Moco calves very close. i had my mind made up on Juneau and spent most of my time looking at those. i did notice in the catolog that the Moco sons had more milk than i was interested in. my dad bought a nice BC Maverick son out of a Moco daugher, thats about all i know.
 

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