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after they leave your ranch. Repeat buyers should become the norm.
• In addition to simplifying breeding management and marketing, it also allows for improved operational efficiency and increased profitability. By placing all the cows in one herd, you make all aspects of management simpler. It also greatly facilitates good grazing management, which will add far more to profit than genetics.
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I know several producers doing this. One is even a very large producer. They tend to buy the late-calving cows from herds in similar locations. Often the purchased cows are a little younger and will tend to breed earlier in the next year or two.
They purchase bulls that favor growth and carcass traits along with adequate calving ease. Most of these operators are calving on the range.
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Quite often, the bulls are composite or hybrid bulls associated with a breed or organization that makes EPDs available. Since no heifer calves are retained, culling is somewhat easier. Cow culling is limited to open cows, dry cows and cows that are beginning to fail— bad udders, poor body condition, eye problems, lameness, etc.
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On the other hand, herds using maternal matings to make good mother cows cannot be as profitable as terminal mating herds unless they are able to sell bred cows at a nice premium over cull cow price. If you are going to raise your own replacements and not sell a good number of bred cows, you will not be as profitable as you would in a strictly terminal mating situation.
Making maternal matings does not mean that you ignore growth and carcass, but they are not nearly as important as other traits. In cow herds, stocking rate, fertility and survivability
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