I always amazes me how we each think our own way of doing things is the "only" way. I will throw out some ideas, and you guys can pound on me for awhile.
The best money I have ever made in the cow business was with Pinzgauer/Charolais cross cows. They weighed on average 1700, with a good percentage bumping 2000. We knew they were big, and didn't try telling everyone that they were 1000 pounders. Guess that was part of the difference. We called them how they were. I hear everyone talking about medium frame cows, that weigh under 1200 pounds. I have hauled enough cows, and sat in the salebarn enough, to know that most 1200 pound cows are really 1500 plus. Then I hear that the calves weaned at 60% of the cow. Is that actual, or in your dream? Again, I haul enough, and visit the barn enough, to call BS!! Most are weaning around 600 pound calves, at the best, which if the cow was actually 1200 pounds is 50%. I DON'T really care! Just be honest.
Back to the Pinzgauer cross. They were registered, so we knew what each cow did. I am sure I have calved more 150 pound calves, then 80 or less, and I am also sure that I helped alot less of the big calves then the smaller ones. Calved in January and February, with 1 leaky old horse barn for shelter. Had a few calves come in the house, when it dropped to 20 below, but very seldom had anything locked in the barn. It wouldn't have done any good anyway. Our weaning weight was around 700, or should say the 205 day weight was. For the most part the calves went straight into the feedlot. Yes the bulls we sold were fed grain, and were pushed hard. We sent quite a few back to breed as a yearling, weighing 1700 plus. I don't remember any falling apart, but they may have, and we never heard about it.
Sorry for the ramble, but just because you calve in May, or think you have 1000 pound cows, or feed Loomix, or Vigrotone, or what ever else, isn't the only way of making money. A person has to do what works for them.
I didn't mean to pick on you 2, but you are both up in everyones face about your products, so I figured you were fair game.
The best money I have ever made in the cow business was with Pinzgauer/Charolais cross cows. They weighed on average 1700, with a good percentage bumping 2000. We knew they were big, and didn't try telling everyone that they were 1000 pounders. Guess that was part of the difference. We called them how they were. I hear everyone talking about medium frame cows, that weigh under 1200 pounds. I have hauled enough cows, and sat in the salebarn enough, to know that most 1200 pound cows are really 1500 plus. Then I hear that the calves weaned at 60% of the cow. Is that actual, or in your dream? Again, I haul enough, and visit the barn enough, to call BS!! Most are weaning around 600 pound calves, at the best, which if the cow was actually 1200 pounds is 50%. I DON'T really care! Just be honest.
Back to the Pinzgauer cross. They were registered, so we knew what each cow did. I am sure I have calved more 150 pound calves, then 80 or less, and I am also sure that I helped alot less of the big calves then the smaller ones. Calved in January and February, with 1 leaky old horse barn for shelter. Had a few calves come in the house, when it dropped to 20 below, but very seldom had anything locked in the barn. It wouldn't have done any good anyway. Our weaning weight was around 700, or should say the 205 day weight was. For the most part the calves went straight into the feedlot. Yes the bulls we sold were fed grain, and were pushed hard. We sent quite a few back to breed as a yearling, weighing 1700 plus. I don't remember any falling apart, but they may have, and we never heard about it.
Sorry for the ramble, but just because you calve in May, or think you have 1000 pound cows, or feed Loomix, or Vigrotone, or what ever else, isn't the only way of making money. A person has to do what works for them.
I didn't mean to pick on you 2, but you are both up in everyones face about your products, so I figured you were fair game.
