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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 14174"><p>> If you want to raise dairy replacements buy bigger calves. Heifers that are big enough to have been pregged to find that they are open and breedable. Most sale barns will do this at 600 to 700 pounds. Those will cost you more to start with but are safer. The problem with your original idea of keeping the cross bred calves is that selling a dairy heifer that has already calfed out will cause the buyers to dock the price of the heifer. I think they feel the heifer comes from a dairy that had problems with her. At least that is how it works around here. If I were keeping the calves out of holstein heifers I would breed them to a calving ease holstein bull because the heifers are worth so much. You don't need DHIA records to sell holstein springers right now. Good loking springers with no story are $2,000 at the sale barn here. All of the growth in the size dairies has caused an increase in the cull rate to the level where lots of them can no longer raise enough of their own heifers thus they are forced to buy replacements. Good Luck Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 14174"] > If you want to raise dairy replacements buy bigger calves. Heifers that are big enough to have been pregged to find that they are open and breedable. Most sale barns will do this at 600 to 700 pounds. Those will cost you more to start with but are safer. The problem with your original idea of keeping the cross bred calves is that selling a dairy heifer that has already calfed out will cause the buyers to dock the price of the heifer. I think they feel the heifer comes from a dairy that had problems with her. At least that is how it works around here. If I were keeping the calves out of holstein heifers I would breed them to a calving ease holstein bull because the heifers are worth so much. You don't need DHIA records to sell holstein springers right now. Good loking springers with no story are $2,000 at the sale barn here. All of the growth in the size dairies has caused an increase in the cull rate to the level where lots of them can no longer raise enough of their own heifers thus they are forced to buy replacements. Good Luck Dave [/QUOTE]
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