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Bottle calf! Some say I'm crazy...
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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1701997" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>We are fortunate in they are calling them broken mouth, short, solid, or just old... on the ones that really look old. I will stay away from ones that look really old going into the winter. We do feed some corn silage so the "old cows" get that and it really does help more than cubes. When we feed any grain, it isn't cubes but actual pellets or a sweet feed. So a broken mouth cow can do a little better. And I will take one with a calf anyday unless the udder is totally useless...But any cow under 600 I will take a chance on unless she looks like she will lay down permanently .... or she is nuts. You can't give me a nut case.</p><p>By calling them old the barn owner is leaving money on the table .... not selling for what they might be worth...so the seller is not getting the best price he could.... but owner might be benefitting on them by someone else buying them cheap and he is in partners/or some other type of deal???</p><p>I want to know if they are ss or sm or bm or whatever....</p><p></p><p>I don't have to worry as much about being at the max # here, since we are keeping and feeding calves a little longer, but have cut the cow herd a bit. With the silage, things are more flexible. Hay is shorter supply this year, but we may be selling more calves off earlier if the prices stay up too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1701997, member: 25884"] We are fortunate in they are calling them broken mouth, short, solid, or just old... on the ones that really look old. I will stay away from ones that look really old going into the winter. We do feed some corn silage so the "old cows" get that and it really does help more than cubes. When we feed any grain, it isn't cubes but actual pellets or a sweet feed. So a broken mouth cow can do a little better. And I will take one with a calf anyday unless the udder is totally useless...But any cow under 600 I will take a chance on unless she looks like she will lay down permanently .... or she is nuts. You can't give me a nut case. By calling them old the barn owner is leaving money on the table .... not selling for what they might be worth...so the seller is not getting the best price he could.... but owner might be benefitting on them by someone else buying them cheap and he is in partners/or some other type of deal??? I want to know if they are ss or sm or bm or whatever.... I don't have to worry as much about being at the max # here, since we are keeping and feeding calves a little longer, but have cut the cow herd a bit. With the silage, things are more flexible. Hay is shorter supply this year, but we may be selling more calves off earlier if the prices stay up too. [/QUOTE]
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