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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1845451" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I sold my bottle holsteins... started calves... 2 weaned, 4 ready to wean... $600 for the one holstein, 500 for the jer/hol/angus cross that showed the jersey build... hol heifer twin to bull calf.... small...180 and her bull twin 300.... holstein bull I got off the dairy for $150 brought 310 after 4 weeks...little jersey bull calf I didn't want to keep by himself for nearly 100..... Not worth my feeding them.... Kept the twin holstein heifers as they should be good to breed... Had maybe $1000 in them all (8 total calves including a small jersey bull calf) ; purchase price, gas to go get them, milk replacer, some grain....couple bales of real good 3rd cutting orchard grass... and got back almost $1900 check after commissions... PLUS, I still have the holstein heifer twins....</p><p>Holstein steers are bringing about 1.75 for 6 wts .... so that is about 1,000 for them... BUT, how much are they going to eat to get to that place and how many months???.... not worth it to me.... because small holsteins cannot just go to grass at 300 lbs as they have to have more protein and concentrates to grow properly... so they are going to COST to get them to the 6 wt size... </p><p>Understand that some big 100+ lb holstein bull calves brought nearly $6 lb last week... </p><p>Totally insane... If I get any calves off the dairy going forward, I am probably going to just sell them...they want me to come get them since they are several hours away from the sale and not worth their time (and gas) to take only 1 or 2 to sale, I am over an hour closer to the sale than they are... and could make it pay to go with only 1 or 2 since I go to the sale some anyway...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1845451, member: 25884"] I sold my bottle holsteins... started calves... 2 weaned, 4 ready to wean... $600 for the one holstein, 500 for the jer/hol/angus cross that showed the jersey build... hol heifer twin to bull calf.... small...180 and her bull twin 300.... holstein bull I got off the dairy for $150 brought 310 after 4 weeks...little jersey bull calf I didn't want to keep by himself for nearly 100..... Not worth my feeding them.... Kept the twin holstein heifers as they should be good to breed... Had maybe $1000 in them all (8 total calves including a small jersey bull calf) ; purchase price, gas to go get them, milk replacer, some grain....couple bales of real good 3rd cutting orchard grass... and got back almost $1900 check after commissions... PLUS, I still have the holstein heifer twins.... Holstein steers are bringing about 1.75 for 6 wts .... so that is about 1,000 for them... BUT, how much are they going to eat to get to that place and how many months???.... not worth it to me.... because small holsteins cannot just go to grass at 300 lbs as they have to have more protein and concentrates to grow properly... so they are going to COST to get them to the 6 wt size... Understand that some big 100+ lb holstein bull calves brought nearly $6 lb last week... Totally insane... If I get any calves off the dairy going forward, I am probably going to just sell them...they want me to come get them since they are several hours away from the sale and not worth their time (and gas) to take only 1 or 2 to sale, I am over an hour closer to the sale than they are... and could make it pay to go with only 1 or 2 since I go to the sale some anyway... [/QUOTE]
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