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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky" data-source="post: 1754403" data-attributes="member: 32659"><p>You are only feeding these calves 10#'s a week? Are they on really good grass? I feed mine 6-8 pounds a day from November-April.</p><p></p><p> The #1 thing I see about being setup to background calves is that you aren't at the mercy of the market. Right now you may be better off selling right at weaning time but that might not be the case come November. I hear people say all the time how the market was down but they had to get the calves off the cows. When your setup to background you have time to watch the market and sell at a better time. 90% of the time you will at least recoup your feed cost. We all know our labor is free on the ranch <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky, post: 1754403, member: 32659"] You are only feeding these calves 10#'s a week? Are they on really good grass? I feed mine 6-8 pounds a day from November-April. The #1 thing I see about being setup to background calves is that you aren't at the mercy of the market. Right now you may be better off selling right at weaning time but that might not be the case come November. I hear people say all the time how the market was down but they had to get the calves off the cows. When your setup to background you have time to watch the market and sell at a better time. 90% of the time you will at least recoup your feed cost. We all know our labor is free on the ranch 🤣 [/QUOTE]
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