E643 127 Days on the List, 82 Hours on the Road: The Cull Cow Math Nobody Runs
The Bullvine Daily Brief by The Bullvine
Episode notes
UBC tracked 1,171 cull cows across 20 herds. The average cow sat 127 days on the culling list before anyone loaded her, losing condition the whole time.
When responsibility travels with the milk check, nobody owns the window where the real damage happens. The Bullvine Podcast breaks down landmark data revealing cows spend an average of 82 hours in the marketing system, multiplying the odds of udder engorgement 14.7-fold before slaughter. Learn how waiting "one more week" bleeds herd value, why sales rings mask lameness, and how to fix the gap.
What You'll Learn
• Why the sales ring lies about lameness by suppressing gait flaws on soft sawdust
• How 85% of producers face capacity bottlenecks that prevent drying off market cows
• What trailer door geometry and loading chute design do to carcass bruising rates
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