Posted on 11/6/2018
Good bull and heifer development is always intentional. It's time-consuming, expensive and, in the end, it's hard to know when to let go of an animal and when to keep it. Raising replacement cattle is both art and science, but Brad Barrett says it's also got to be a passion.
This Normangee, Texas, cattleman has built a business seedstock producers turn to for help through that last, important phase of development. His system and feeding protocol focuses on getting heifers and bulls ready to return home for breeding, or to sell in one of the state's big livestock auctions.
"We say we are a full-service cattle operation, that there's no job...