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The industry does not need more breeds. It needs more breeders.

Here's the best quote I've read on this site in a long time. 

I've got two farms I keep cattle at, about 3.5 hrs apart.  I was busy one year and couldn't make it up to the one place to cut calves so hired the vet to do it.  That year we had one do exactly as you're discribing.  I treated that sucker every other day for weeks.  He looked like crap and lost...

You can find Angus cows on three out of four corners of every intersection.  They are similar to realtors and gas stations- everywhere.

Maybe you're asking too much for them.  Personally, I am ok with selling some calves below what I think they're worth sometimes.  Obviously you can't make a habit of it, but when people get a "good deal" and the cattle work for them they come back, and they tell their friends.  Establishing a...

why on earth would anyone consider implanting breeding heifers if there's even a hint it might decrease their lifetime fertility?  To save a couple bucks on development costs?!

Update: I bought a Hesston 540.  It is in mint condition (less than 1000 bales through it) and was on a New Holland lot so they wanted to get rid of it pretty badly.  Cost $3500 (basically the cost of two years worth of custom work).  I made 115 bales with it this year and for the money I'm very...

I got suckered into buying a class ring.  It ranks up there as one of the dumbest purchases I've ever made.

I have a Stonghold and would buy another.  Tough as nails and works well. A Silencer is the cadillac but comes with a hefty price tag.

If it moves air well it doesn't matter if it does or does not say Sullivan on it.

http://www.naab-css.org/db/studcode.html here's a good reference for anyone trying to look up code numbers.  The numbers before the breed code represent the stud code.  Ex-1-Genex, 14- Accelerated, 29-ABS, etc.  By the way, 1SP5 is Creole and I think that has some $ value.

We routinely put CIDRs in cows when we put embryos in and pull them two weeks later.  If the cow has a subpar CL it helps elevate her progesterone levels and increase the likelihood of her maintaining the pregnancy.  I know some ET guys say there's no need to do it, but it seems to work here...

Absolutely they can come in from days 7-13.  The Select Synch + CIDR & TAI protocol goes out to day 10 (72 hrs post prostaglandin) because at that point you give GnRH and time breed.  It's a hybrid protocol that involves heat detection and a cleanup time breeding on non-responders.  Works well. ...

I went over to that site out of curiousity.  I don't get it.  What's the point?  Can someone explain?

if you're 120 days away and only at 700 lbs then structure is the least of your issues.  It's time to ramp up the feed, and an implant of any sort will help.  Keep him comfortable and go to 3X/day feeding if possible. You've got some work ahead of you.  good luck

sounds like you're saying "use common sense".  I'll second that motion.

or test them...the clean ones need not be terminal.

for example, I AI the "best" carrier cows and put eggs in the "just good cows".  Besides that, it's one strike against them.  If they screw up in any other way- breed late, look at me crosswise, raise a subpar calf, etc.- they are gone.  I'm down to only two left now.

He's a registered bull with many registered progeny.  His EPDs would give you a good idea of his ability to sire growth.  You can look them up on the American Simmental Association's website.