How To Avoid Culling Your Cattle Herd

Use your individual records kept on each cow to identify cows that have consistently weaned calves that rank in the bottom 10-25% of your herd. Go back to the ...

How To Avoid Culling Your Cattle Herd - Redd Summit Advisors

Ranchers can utilize Ag-insurance to avoid having to cull their herd to protect their profit margin.

Culling Considerations for Beef Cow-Calf Herd - Livestock

Producers should make culling decisions based on what is best for their farm's profitability, and what is best for animal well-being.

Cull early and often to keep your cowherd productive - Beef Magazine

Culling cows and bulls eliminates undesirable animals from the herd and makes room for more productive animals to be added into a beef program.

Beef Cull Cow Management and Marketing Alternatives

Culling a cow from the herd because of poor health or physical defects is recommended because the risk of retaining her likely outweighs any benefit. Such ...

Culling the Commercial Cow Herd: BIF Fact Sheet | MU Extension

Cull open cows or cows not raising a calf to weaning unless economic conditions warrant retaining a pregnant cow that has not weaned a calf. Any ...

Culling - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Heifers that do not breed back after their first calf are particularly ... by Reason for Culling and Herd Size. Percent Operations. 100. 80. 909. 60. 40. 20.

Guidelines for Culling Cows - Noble Research Institute

Evaluate the structural soundness of each cow based on her ability to raise a calf. Anything that limits her ability should be noted. Look for bad feet or toes, ...

Culling and Replacement Rate in the Beef Cow Herd

Therefore, any cow that does not get pregnant or wean a calf should be a primary candidate for culling from the cow herd. Annual production of a calf provides ...

How to reduce your dairy farm cull rate - Better Dairy Cow

clean and dry teats before milking; implement a bedding routine to keep stall beds clean and dry; use adequate amounts of bedding to keep cows ...

Dynamics and Strategies for Culling in a Dairy Herd

Well managed herds identify their voluntary cull cows early into lactation. These cows are then placed on a “Do Not Breed” List to eliminate the extra expense ...

Are You Culling the Right Cows? | Bovine Veterinarian

Keep Stalls Full. While culling cows is an essential part of keeping the herd profitable, culling too many animals can cause added headaches ...

Culling the Beef Cow Herd - Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service

way to keep Johne's out of the herd is to have cattle tested for the disease ... to cull a cow, contact your local Extension agent. Printed by ...

CULLING THE COW HERD

If she can produce, a commercial cattle producer should probably keep her in the herd. A cow with few teeth isn't necessarily an automatic cull if she's in ...

Cull or keep? How to make the best culling decisions - Beef Magazine

This should include pregnancy testing and closely evaluating every cow. Culling selections are an important part of moving your herd ...

4 Tips for Keeping Your Herd Productive Over Winter | Makin' Hay

You should begin developing your plans for wintering your herd and identifying lower-performing cull cattle before cold weather arrives. Denise Schwab, Iowa ...

Cull Cow Management Considerations for Spring & Fall

Open cows are typical targets for fall culling, but if you're able to breed them and keep them in the herd over winter, you might be able to spring-cull them as ...

Culling your beef cow herd - MSU Extension

Just as wise selection of bulls or replacement heifers are primary ways to improve your beef cow-calf herd, selecting the cows to cull each ...

Cull Rates: How is Your Farm Doing?

Benefits of reducing involuntary culling · Reduced number of heifers needed to maintain herd size – the fewer cows that are involuntary culls the ...

To Keep or to Cull - Department of Animal & Food Sciences

Culling is the best strategy a farmer has to controlling herd size. Being aware of your current and target herd size dictates if, when, and how many cows to ...