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<blockquote data-quote="Peace" data-source="post: 1741198" data-attributes="member: 41443"><p>Unless things have changed, those heifer calves are gold to dairys. They don't usually leave the calf on the cow, in most of the bigger dairys they take the calf from the cow before the calf ever nurses and feed them colostrum they've saved from other cows. They then teach the calf to drink from a pail and feed those calves "junk" milk, that's milk they can't sell because they've medicated the cow or day 2 and 3 after calving.</p><p></p><p>To me, you've struck a gold mine if you can get a cow to raise 3 calves, actually, if you can discipline yourself, you could get them to raise 5 or 6 a year for you. Put a plan in place to take advantage of the 305 day cycle, she calves, you add 2 to her while she is fresh. Take away those 3 after 5 months, give her 3 new ones for 5 months then dry her off and and repeat....that's 6 a year in my book. There is a youtube channel, farm and hammer, that did a video within the last month basically stating it's his most profitable beef venture. He's using angus holstein cross and and a holstein to pull it off...your results and ideas may vary...but it might be a real money maker for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peace, post: 1741198, member: 41443"] Unless things have changed, those heifer calves are gold to dairys. They don't usually leave the calf on the cow, in most of the bigger dairys they take the calf from the cow before the calf ever nurses and feed them colostrum they've saved from other cows. They then teach the calf to drink from a pail and feed those calves "junk" milk, that's milk they can't sell because they've medicated the cow or day 2 and 3 after calving. To me, you've struck a gold mine if you can get a cow to raise 3 calves, actually, if you can discipline yourself, you could get them to raise 5 or 6 a year for you. Put a plan in place to take advantage of the 305 day cycle, she calves, you add 2 to her while she is fresh. Take away those 3 after 5 months, give her 3 new ones for 5 months then dry her off and and repeat....that's 6 a year in my book. There is a youtube channel, farm and hammer, that did a video within the last month basically stating it's his most profitable beef venture. He's using angus holstein cross and and a holstein to pull it off...your results and ideas may vary...but it might be a real money maker for you. [/QUOTE]
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