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There is research out there supporting the claims that you can regulate mature size by controlling feed intake through heifer development while still getting healthy calves out of 2 year old heifers. So maybe instead of focusing on breeding the performance out of our cattle, we need to focus on...

If you qualify for SBA help then you most likely qualify for FSA help. Then you might as well go to FSA because their rates are going to beat any commercial SBA partner and they won't require nearly the explanation. I have developed a business plan for my livestock enterprise in the past though...

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll certainly look into them

Thanks Mark! I actually got the opportunity to buy her in March and her bull calf by JDMC Standout looks like a real stud so far, we're probably going to retain him as our next herd sire since he'll be an outcross to everything else we have and likely everything else I plan to buy. Here is her...

http://www.steerplanet.com/bb/the-big-show/breeding-suggestions-58699/ Unfortunately I can't get the other cow's picture to save in a small enough format,  but here's the only commercial cow we have left. She's been so productive I couldn't let her go and I'm working on breeding up her progeny...

Here are a couple cows I really like for an idea of the type I'm looking for. I'll also try to find the thread where I posted a pic of my best commercial cow because I can't find the pic on my phone right now.

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions, keep em coming! I'll have to sit down and try to map out all of these destinations and I'll for sure post an update once I've picked up my cows. I only have space for about 10 more cows, so ideally I'd like to pick up a couple here and there to get a...

I'm from MN, but I have enough airline miles to get me to any airport and I travel a fair bit for work. I'll be out around Richmond VA later this month, then Mississippi and NC later this summer. I plan to attend the Revival in Michigan, and down to Lauer's for their sale, PVF for their female...

What are some smaller or well less known shorthorn herds out there that are worth traveling to take a look at? I'm specifically looking for productive cows that aren't pampered, but still have a decent enough phenotype to produce County fair calves or "first time showman" calves. I have...

Genex seemed to run promotions on the MVE tanks each year in the spring, so depending on urgency it may be worth watching out for that. I think it was an April thing last time I noticed it though. I got the MVE Millennium 2000 XC 20 for around $500 I think and it hasn't let me down in the 5(?)...

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With grain being relatively cheap these days, I was wondering if anyone has a good recipe for a cheap creep feed that I could mix up relatively easily? I will only have about 7 calves this year and my feeder capacity is only 650lbs, so getting the feed mill to mix a batch up is sort of out of...

They're guaranteed to be fertile, it's on page 3 of the sale book. If they sell untested then that is a risk SAV takes on, not the buyer.

Probably because it isn't worth funding. Colostrum production has a lot more to do with genetics and nutrition prior to calving than it does with how old the grandam was at the time the cow was born. My main concern with stacking generations of replacements from 1st calf heifers would be the...

A red shorthorn bull is homo red if he's solid red. That's about the simplest genetic pattern in cattle breeding.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I think you're a touch off the mark on the bolded part. Truly rich people don't blow their money on this stuff, and people who gain actual wealth care very much about ROI. It's the wannabe rich people buying that fancy equipment and cool "shitt" to...

Interest rates must be much higher in Canada, because with the figures you gave, your neighbor would've had to have bought that equipment with $0 down and 10.7% interest... a typical loan on $1.7M (CAD) machinery in the States would be around $280 (CAD) interest per day, assuming they had enough...

Breed them on natural heats if you can reliably detect estrus, but if you're just guessing/inexperienced on when they're in heat then you're probably better off using timed. A combination of the 2 can work too if you have the ability to AI multiple different times over the course of a few days...

I just noticed on the Shorthorn Country sales page that this dispersion sale is scheduled for October.. I presume this is the Keith Lauer that I see mentioned in a lot of sale catalogs? Does anyone know anything about this sale, or can fill me in on what their cattle are primarily known for? I...

It matters because those of us looking for helpful information shouldn't have to sort through all this pointless garbage that is completely irrelevant to a cattle forum. It's not a big deal to go off topic, sometimes the conversations divert to something interesting and informative, but it would...