Beef Cow Herd Culling Strategies

9 Things To Consider Before Culling A Cow - Beef Magazine

Making informed culling decisions helps maintain a high level of herd performance. Even favorite cows should be subject to a systematic culling process. 'Ole ...

Marketing Cull Cows | The Cattle Site

Cull cows could stay with the main cow herd in expectations that cow prices will improve. In this strategy, cull cows are placed on a wintering diet of roughage ...

Drought Management Strategies for Beef Cattle - UGA Extension

Cows that you plan to cull after calves are weaned can be culled now. This will reduce the amount of feed needed. The normal culling rate is approximately 15 to ...

Toward an optimal culling strategy for beef cattle herds

Culling strategy may be an important factor influencing the productivity of a cattle herd. Determining the influence that a particular strategy ...

Drought Strategies for Beef Cattle Culling - ANR Catalog

feeding and culling. Removing animals from the herd is the most direct method of reducing forage consumption on drought-stricken rangeland. Strategic culling ...

Optimal Beef Cow Culling Strategies in the U.S.: A Dynamic Linear ...

The results suggest that producers should cull all cows that are older than age 10 and cows that fail to calve once they reach the age of 7. The ...

A Strategy for Culling Cows - Successful Farming

“By culling deeply, we've been able to move the bottom end of the herd up a couple of notches in quality and uniformity,” says Nancy Peterson.

Culling your beef cow herd - MSU Extension

CHAPS (Cow Herd Appraisal Performance Software) data from North Dakota State University Extension show an average beef cow cull rate of 13.2 ...

Strategic Culling Methods | Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter - U.OSU

Strategic Culling Methods · Guidelines for Culling include · Open/loss of calves · Factors that contribute to a reduction in calf crop ...

Managing Cattle During Drought

Develop and prioritize your culling strategy. Cull cows you would normally keep. See this as an opportunity to improve your herd. Determine how many cows you ...

Alternative Retention and Marketing Strategies for Cull Beef Cows

aspects after the decision to cull has been made. The majority of cow-calf producers traditionally cull cows from the herd after weaning in the fall and ...

Maximizing Cull Cow Revenues | Panhandle Agriculture

The rationale behind culling based solely on age is to remove cows from the herd before age-related issues begin to impact the cow's ability to ...

Burke Teichert: How to cull the right cow without keeping records

If you cull the right cows, your herd will rapidly be rid of most of ... His column on strategic planning for the ranch appears monthly in BEEF ...

Chapter 48: Cull and Open Beef Cows - SDSU Extension

The age of the cow is another reason to cull an animal from the herd. The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF, 2010) publishes adjustment factors for calf weaning ...

Dairy Cow Culling Strategies: Making Economical Culling Decisions

Culling strategies are further influenced by short-term fluctuations in cow numbers as well as by planned herd expansion. Changes in herd size affect the ...

Dynamics and Strategies for Culling in a Dairy Herd

Culling dairy cows from the lactating herd and replacing them with heifers are essential to maximize herd profitability.

Strategies for time of culling in control of paratuberculosis in dairy ...

In the short run (7 yr with typical reproduction and 10 yr with poor reproduction), it was most profitable to cull test-positive cows when their milk yield ...

Drought Raises Questions About When, How to Cull Cattle Herds

Culling is a routine practice used to manage the stocking rate on the ranch and maintain a productive, healthy and problem-free herd.

A field study of culling and mortality in beef cows from western Canada

Veterinarians examined dead animals on-farm using a standard postmortem protocol. The incidence of culling in cows and replacements heifers was 14.3 per 100 cow ...

Getting the Most Out of Your Cull Cows - Feedlot Magazine

An Update on Herd Rebuilding ... - Feeding cull cows to move them from yellow to white fat. Feed trial data suggest that it takes between 70 and ...