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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1754337" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>J+ that would make a lot of sense and really help out. Unfortunately I can only estimate. The calves were weaned at different times and three of them actually came from the sale barn. I almost always have some calves in the backgrounding program that I do so some costs get spread out for many many months or years if you are talking about equipment like pens or trailers. Right now there is 47 in the program. There are almost allways a dozen or so. The largest part of the group was weaned 80 days. At the 1.85 lbs per day they gained 148 lbs.</p><p>Two rounds of shots, worming and implants and materials to give them is about $20. Feed at 10lbs a week for 12 weeks is $25. Where i have no idea is labor, equipment costs, fuel or an amount for pasture usage. Its a good question, I am just not setup to track it that close. A group all bought or all weaned at the same time would be much easier.</p><p></p><p>Kenny, Our local barns also all work on percentage. OKC Stockyards and OKC West are the only ones I know that do it by the head and there are no set rules. Each commission company acts independently but from the couple that I have used and what I have been told is they are all very close. OKC West has slightly lower commisions because the yard acts as there own commission firm. The actual fee per head to the commission company per my paycheck was $10.10 each.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1754337, member: 5381"] J+ that would make a lot of sense and really help out. Unfortunately I can only estimate. The calves were weaned at different times and three of them actually came from the sale barn. I almost always have some calves in the backgrounding program that I do so some costs get spread out for many many months or years if you are talking about equipment like pens or trailers. Right now there is 47 in the program. There are almost allways a dozen or so. The largest part of the group was weaned 80 days. At the 1.85 lbs per day they gained 148 lbs. Two rounds of shots, worming and implants and materials to give them is about $20. Feed at 10lbs a week for 12 weeks is $25. Where i have no idea is labor, equipment costs, fuel or an amount for pasture usage. Its a good question, I am just not setup to track it that close. A group all bought or all weaned at the same time would be much easier. Kenny, Our local barns also all work on percentage. OKC Stockyards and OKC West are the only ones I know that do it by the head and there are no set rules. Each commission company acts independently but from the couple that I have used and what I have been told is they are all very close. OKC West has slightly lower commisions because the yard acts as there own commission firm. The actual fee per head to the commission company per my paycheck was $10.10 each. [/QUOTE]
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