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IM DONE WITH YOU BOYS

HAY MAKER

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Believe it or not winter is coming and Im culling hard, everything that aint young and bred..........In the trailer
good luck/joe

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Yep with cull bulls bringing $3000- you would be a fool to hold an old bull over unless he was something extremely special...
 
rancherfred said:
Oldtimer said:
Yep with cull bulls bringing $3000- you would be a fool to hold an old bull over unless he was something extremely special...

Except you have to replace him and it will cost a lot more than $3000.

I'd sell every yearling bull next spring for $3000 average at least that's what I am hopeing for.
 
Denny said:
rancherfred said:
Oldtimer said:
Yep with cull bulls bringing $3000- you would be a fool to hold an old bull over unless he was something extremely special...

Except you have to replace him and it will cost a lot more than $3000.

I'd sell every yearling bull next spring for $3000 average at least that's what I am hopeing for.

In our country we heard a lot of $5000+ sale averages. That is why I am setting on my healthy bulls for another year.
 
rancherfred said:
Denny said:
rancherfred said:
Except you have to replace him and it will cost a lot more than $3000.

I'd sell every yearling bull next spring for $3000 average at least that's what I am hopeing for.

In our country we heard a lot of $5000+ sale averages. That is why I am setting on my healthy bulls for another year.


My bulls will be selling April 23rd 2015 in Mobridge SD. I will have between 30 and 40 bulls with 3/4ths of them AI sired.
 
nortexsook said:
Denny said:
My bulls will be selling April 23rd 2015 in Mobridge SD. I will have between 30 and 40 bulls with 3/4ths of them AI sired.

Does that make them better?

Yep and there will be plenty of good bulls with good genetics available next spring for that price unless you've sold yourself into the hype of some of these outfits that have to get whorehouse prices to pay for the emotion, commotion, and promotion costs.... :roll:

And as you say Denny- many will probably come from some of those same A.I. sires (and often as good or better cows and/or sires).... Over the years I have found there are a lot of diamonds in the rough out there that just aren't involved in all the hype...
 
nortexsook said:
Denny said:
My bulls will be selling April 23rd 2015 in Mobridge SD. I will have between 30 and 40 bulls with 3/4ths of them AI sired.

Does that make them better?

Some are, some aren't and better than what and for what and in who's eyes the sellers or the buyers because what I look at in bulls and what someone else see's are two very different views of the same animal.
 
Just seemed like you were implying that AI sired calves were better than natural service sired calves. Just curious if that's what you meant or not?
 
nortexsook said:
Just seemed like you were implying that AI sired calves were better than natural service sired calves. Just curious if that's what you meant or not?

If you have real deep pockets maybe not, if you are a poverty stricken hick like me that couldn't buy a low cut dress for a humming bird then yes, they are better, much better.
Best/joe
 
I like to buy bulls from places that have cow families with their own herd prefix a at least a couple generations back and I don't mind a calf off a home raised bull they felt was good enough to compete with the AI sired calves.
 
We raise some black angus bulls. With our system, we find that the calves out of the home raised bulls perform as well or better than most of our AI bull calves. BUT, as we only feed our bull calves range cake and grass hay and sell them as two year olds, the home raised genetics get way better filled out and are not nearly as long legged.
 

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