Stocker Steve
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Aaron Based on current heifer feeder values said:You wild thang. My limit was U$S 800 and I still bought a bunch in December. But like Forest, I kept my Apple stock.
Aaron Based on current heifer feeder values said:You wild thang. My limit was U$S 800 and I still bought a bunch in December. But like Forest, I kept my Apple stock.
Stocker Steve said:Aaron Based on current heifer feeder values said:You wild thang. My limit was U$S 800 and I still bought a bunch in December. But like Forest, I kept my Apple stock.
And they were top end heifers? I am not talking the bottom 3rd of peoples herds that they pass off as 'breds' because they threw a mongrel stag with them.
Stocker Steve said:w1982 Your neck of the woods said:Any special train wreck, or just a general lack of optimism?
Dead calf...plus's a possibility you lose the heifer too.
1982 Dead calf...plus's a possibility you lose the heifer too. [/quote said:I get the possibility of the train wreak heifer discount, but it seems to vary by area. Many of the small operators here will not buy a heifer. I think the western BTOs may have someone sleeping in the calving barn.
1982vett said:Yeah....seems their is always a cowboy willing to buy the young batshit crazy cow too....and not necessary at a discount.
MO-Ruminants said:How would Bud have reckoned the value of bred heifers against bred cows (the salebarn type, 1 bid over kill price)
Stocker Steve said:Second calvers are hard to sell here. Seems to be different in the west.
Had a Swede on CT a while back who bred all his heifers, then short weaned and finished the ones he did not want. ND did some similar work in the past. I asked them why they dropped it - - said it was too difficult to get numbers. The 30 month rule could also be an issue now.
Dave Guy I went to college with did that breed them all said:We cull hard before and after calving. :cowboy: So we have a couple of that kind per year as freezer beef. Helps to keep development cost down if you can upsell the culls.
Stocker Steve said:Dave Guy I went to college with did that breed them all said:We cull hard before and after calving. :cowboy: So we have a couple of that kind per year as freezer beef. Helps to keep development cost down if you can upsell the culls.
He was breeding 200 heifers and keeping around 40 of them. That makes for too many for freezer beef. On a smaller scale the 30 month rules doesn't effect that producer. A 32-36 month old one calf cow who has been fed should actually make some real good beef.