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What criteria do y'all use for buying heifers?

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I'm buying some heifers soon, and I was wondering what everyone looks for in theirs. I already know what to look for, I just thought it would be interesting to see what criteria y'all use.


I look for eye appeal, age/size ratio, hooks to pins, doctility, their sires and/or dams if at all possible, legs, topline, hind quarters, and if they are clean and feminine in the front end. I don't want any "trash" on her.

What does everyone else look for?
 
1st thing is they have to be black angus.

or whatever you prefer

I would find a herd of cows in your area that have the kind of cattle you want. I would then pick from some of those trying to keep all pretty uniform in size and structure.I would'nt buy the biggest or the smallest but pick out of the middle sort off the runts and the giants then pick out 10 or so you really like and sort down from there.
 
ACS.................We're gonna hafta rename you......you're not showing many Angus these days.....................Will you answer if we start calling you "SHORTIE"???? :P :P :P :P :wink:
 
:p go ahead... every other animal I own is Angus based, and its going to stay that way, but I have a gut instinct tha shorthorn is gonna be the next big thing, so I gotta get my hands in there... and I need something to cross an angus bull with that has lots of hair cause these dont have much. lol.

Later
 
I agree with Denny- before I buy a bull or heifers I look at the cows they are out of and figure out if that is the type of cow that fits me...

One thing I found with some purebred bull raisers- is many times they have uneven lots of heifers- because they breed 5-10 head to one bull, another 5-10 to another bull, trying to come up with bull prospects their buyers want...The best set of heifers I ever bought were all AI 1/2 sister daughters out of 1/2 sister heifers....
 
1st thing you do is forget about the Limo cross! How fast can you run???? :wink: Shorthorns are nice, but you have to be careful what and where you buy. Brother-in-law bought some from around your neck of the woods, ended up with cows with real bad udders. Say, if you find a blue roan heifer in your travels, PM me. I want one.
 
The limo cross is a blue roan... mione mine, all mine!! lol. She is real quiet, so is her limo dam, and her shorty sire.

Im getting her from Star P Farms, and they have real good, sound udders. They said if I want to bring her back if it turns out there are udder problems, thry'll trade me for one of equal or greater value.

If I find another blue roan, I'll tell ya... I'll start asking around.
 
Picking heifers is just like picking your self a girlfriend. Go have a close look at their Mama. If Momma is an easy- keeper, odds are the daughter will be too. Don't take anything with a bad disposition.
Try to pick from a well culled herd , not from a group of recently assembled cows.
 
Only one! Actually thinking I'd like a bred heifer. We're selling all our calves and it seems kind of pointless to feed one heifer calf.
 
Greybeard, not sure if I quite follow your well culled herd analogy???
The human race has pretty much eliminated natural selection....the culls have no where to go, and with all of the slim pickings, the culls are the only ones left.

Although recycling has really been catching on the last couple decades, so I guess a guy always has hope (pure sarcasm)
 

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