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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky" data-source="post: 1820910" data-attributes="member: 32659"><p>It generally cost me $150 per head in feed and meds to get a yearling through the winter. Typically feed it for 120 days ( good feed and very little if any hay). I can run 2 1/2 yearlings for each mother cow I can run. There is some death loss and some leg work involved but aren't we running cattle? Everyone brings up the death loss deal and the risk involved. If you wanna talk about risk look at running more cows instead of retaining yearlings. You got extra bulls, extra open cows, extra calving issues, extra time wathing them calve, the list goes on and on. $150 or $200 a head profit doesn't sound like much until you do it times X amount. There's a reason people run yearlings. </p><p></p><p> One thing I can't understand for the life of me is how every small to medium producer is jumping up and down about local butcher shops and how they could buy locally sourced beef but they don't wanna keep their calves past weaning size. What local butcher shop is going to buy 500# calves? I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say zero or zilchy zilchy. They will want 1,100 to 1,200 # calves. Who's going to raise these calves when everyone is scared to death of retaining yearlings?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky, post: 1820910, member: 32659"] It generally cost me $150 per head in feed and meds to get a yearling through the winter. Typically feed it for 120 days ( good feed and very little if any hay). I can run 2 1/2 yearlings for each mother cow I can run. There is some death loss and some leg work involved but aren't we running cattle? Everyone brings up the death loss deal and the risk involved. If you wanna talk about risk look at running more cows instead of retaining yearlings. You got extra bulls, extra open cows, extra calving issues, extra time wathing them calve, the list goes on and on. $150 or $200 a head profit doesn't sound like much until you do it times X amount. There's a reason people run yearlings. One thing I can't understand for the life of me is how every small to medium producer is jumping up and down about local butcher shops and how they could buy locally sourced beef but they don't wanna keep their calves past weaning size. What local butcher shop is going to buy 500# calves? I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say zero or zilchy zilchy. They will want 1,100 to 1,200 # calves. Who's going to raise these calves when everyone is scared to death of retaining yearlings? [/QUOTE]
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