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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 687387" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>djinwa, I suspect the dairies you've contacted simply don't want the hassle of breeding a cow specially for a buyer who might not turn up for the calf nine months later. You need to go the other way round - find a dairy with beef cross calves being born and ask to buy a calf.</p><p>Even with already breeding to beef I wouldn't do this for anyone outside of family - just too many things can go wrong.</p><p>Even with knowing the matings, I don't know in advance which of my cows will have saleable calves (good-sized, healthy, appropriate markings, meet the market requirements). Apart from dairy heifers, so far I've seen a total of 2 calves out of 140 cows that I could have sold. You might have liked some of the little Angus-cross heifers out of heifers, but I couldn't have sold them on the open market here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 687387, member: 9267"] djinwa, I suspect the dairies you've contacted simply don't want the hassle of breeding a cow specially for a buyer who might not turn up for the calf nine months later. You need to go the other way round - find a dairy with beef cross calves being born and ask to buy a calf. Even with already breeding to beef I wouldn't do this for anyone outside of family - just too many things can go wrong. Even with knowing the matings, I don't know in advance which of my cows will have saleable calves (good-sized, healthy, appropriate markings, meet the market requirements). Apart from dairy heifers, so far I've seen a total of 2 calves out of 140 cows that I could have sold. You might have liked some of the little Angus-cross heifers out of heifers, but I couldn't have sold them on the open market here. [/QUOTE]
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