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Any profit on bottle calves??
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<blockquote data-quote="HOSS" data-source="post: 619559" data-attributes="member: 1863"><p>We have a jersey nurse cow. When she calves we buy a jersey bull calf at a dairy farm for 45.00. They let their bull calves suckle for 3 days on momma for the colostrum and a good start then they sell them. We put the bull calf with the nurse cow cause she has more than enough milk for two. If we get unfortunate (rarely) and have a cow that rejects her baby it goes on the nurse cow and jersey bull (now steer) gets weaned early. We have very little input cost in the jersey steer and he sells at the sale barn at 200 to 300 pounds. Along with the sale of the half beef / half jersey calf and the sale of the jersey steer it more than pays for keeping the jersey cow around. We did some bottle feeding with the kids but there is too much input cost to make it work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOSS, post: 619559, member: 1863"] We have a jersey nurse cow. When she calves we buy a jersey bull calf at a dairy farm for 45.00. They let their bull calves suckle for 3 days on momma for the colostrum and a good start then they sell them. We put the bull calf with the nurse cow cause she has more than enough milk for two. If we get unfortunate (rarely) and have a cow that rejects her baby it goes on the nurse cow and jersey bull (now steer) gets weaned early. We have very little input cost in the jersey steer and he sells at the sale barn at 200 to 300 pounds. Along with the sale of the half beef / half jersey calf and the sale of the jersey steer it more than pays for keeping the jersey cow around. We did some bottle feeding with the kids but there is too much input cost to make it work. [/QUOTE]
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