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<blockquote data-quote="sidney411" data-source="post: 51792" data-attributes="member: 430"><p>lb at auction price gross deductions net </p><p>385 $1.30 $500.50 $23.82 $476.68 </p><p></p><p>lb after p/c price gross deductions net difference</p><p>445 $1.27 $565.15 $11.30 $553.85 $77.10</p><p></p><p>Cost of preconditioning per calf </p><p>receiving ration </p><p>(7lb per day for 7 days = 49 lbs) 50 lb sack $4.95</p><p>growing ration </p><p>(14lb per day for 21 days = 294 lbs) 6, 50 lb sacks $29.70</p><p>vaccines, booster, and wormer $3.72</p><p>weight tickets $0.70</p><p>hay $1.80</p><p>Total $40.87</p><p> </p><p> difference per head $36.23</p><p> x 50 head $1811.50</p><p></p><p>If I sell 50 calves a year I make an average of $1811.50 more then if I would have sold at the auction barn. I've got the calves in the pens when I seperate them from momma, so it is little effort for me to give their shots. By the time they need their boosters all I have to do is call them into the pen with the feed and give them, it takes less then an hour for the whole process. I think the extra effort is worth the extra money, which in itself is enough to cover the taxes on the land and barn for the year.</p><p></p><p>Please let me know if I am missing something, or figuring something wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sidney411, post: 51792, member: 430"] lb at auction price gross deductions net 385 $1.30 $500.50 $23.82 $476.68 lb after p/c price gross deductions net difference 445 $1.27 $565.15 $11.30 $553.85 $77.10 Cost of preconditioning per calf receiving ration (7lb per day for 7 days = 49 lbs) 50 lb sack $4.95 growing ration (14lb per day for 21 days = 294 lbs) 6, 50 lb sacks $29.70 vaccines, booster, and wormer $3.72 weight tickets $0.70 hay $1.80 Total $40.87 difference per head $36.23 x 50 head $1811.50 If I sell 50 calves a year I make an average of $1811.50 more then if I would have sold at the auction barn. I've got the calves in the pens when I seperate them from momma, so it is little effort for me to give their shots. By the time they need their boosters all I have to do is call them into the pen with the feed and give them, it takes less then an hour for the whole process. I think the extra effort is worth the extra money, which in itself is enough to cover the taxes on the land and barn for the year. Please let me know if I am missing something, or figuring something wrong. [/QUOTE]
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