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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 541064" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>I never said that castrating a 200 lb nursing calf was stressful. MOST people generally accept that the same steers WOULD weigh 10 to 20 pounds MORE at weaning if they were intact due to the steroid hormones produced by the gonads. Many/most?? people implant to try to get most of that 20 pounds back. I do think that my numbers (and antedotal experience) tells me that IF you sell heavier calves certainly 550+++ calves that leaving them intact gets costly. Now many many folks (at least down here) calf in April and May and sell those 4 wt calves in October. I don't think castrating THOSE calves pays at all......at least it doesn't (most years) down here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 541064, member: 7645"] I never said that castrating a 200 lb nursing calf was stressful. MOST people generally accept that the same steers WOULD weigh 10 to 20 pounds MORE at weaning if they were intact due to the steroid hormones produced by the gonads. Many/most?? people implant to try to get most of that 20 pounds back. I do think that my numbers (and antedotal experience) tells me that IF you sell heavier calves certainly 550+++ calves that leaving them intact gets costly. Now many many folks (at least down here) calf in April and May and sell those 4 wt calves in October. I don't think castrating THOSE calves pays at all......at least it doesn't (most years) down here. [/QUOTE]
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