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Ran across an interesting concept this weekend. What is your opnions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1773396" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Lord no, they wouldn't want a Holstein anywhere near that place! ( They told my buddies they did have one red Holstein cow, but they breed it to a Guernsey, and this is its last year. Her daughters they kept they just say they are Guernsey) Nothing to even remotely appear as a commercial dairy. If they did, they couldn't sell you these shares in the cows, and charge $3.50 a quart, $6 a half gallon, and $10 a gallon to milk<em> your</em> cows, and bottle <em>your</em> milk! Same as the free-range, organic eggs...no Leghorns or any other breed that lays white eggs. The free -range turkeys they sell are bronze..no white ones. </p><p></p><p><My friends will do a little better than that on those dairy steer calves. The people have been keeping them a little longer, about 5 months or so, and getting them on grass when they had pasture. At the sweet spot, 400 lbs or so, they had a man that would come get them for $300 each. They told my buddies they would put them in contact with him. On their own half breed calves, if they use a Brangus bull, their calves will bring whatever any other black calves will sell for at 400-500lbs. If they use a Brahma, the steers won't bring as much, but if they keep those heifers til they are open, long yearlings, they will get $1200 or more for them. But that is about 30 months from the time they get their mommas to raise up and breed to get them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1773396, member: 40587"] Lord no, they wouldn't want a Holstein anywhere near that place! ( They told my buddies they did have one red Holstein cow, but they breed it to a Guernsey, and this is its last year. Her daughters they kept they just say they are Guernsey) Nothing to even remotely appear as a commercial dairy. If they did, they couldn't sell you these shares in the cows, and charge $3.50 a quart, $6 a half gallon, and $10 a gallon to milk[I] your[/I] cows, and bottle [I]your[/I] milk! Same as the free-range, organic eggs...no Leghorns or any other breed that lays white eggs. The free -range turkeys they sell are bronze..no white ones. <My friends will do a little better than that on those dairy steer calves. The people have been keeping them a little longer, about 5 months or so, and getting them on grass when they had pasture. At the sweet spot, 400 lbs or so, they had a man that would come get them for $300 each. They told my buddies they would put them in contact with him. On their own half breed calves, if they use a Brangus bull, their calves will bring whatever any other black calves will sell for at 400-500lbs. If they use a Brahma, the steers won't bring as much, but if they keep those heifers til they are open, long yearlings, they will get $1200 or more for them. But that is about 30 months from the time they get their mommas to raise up and breed to get them. [/QUOTE]
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