bred heifers

[Travlr]

Just had a thought after looking at the braford heifers for $4K...

What is a heifer worth in comparison to the calf they produce? Is a heifer worth the same as their mature calf? Or some percentage more? Is she only worth more if she's bred?

Just a different way of assessing value, for me. I did land this way when buying pasture to feed cows but never really thought about it with the animals.

 

[branxchar&charx]

Girls are gorgeous.

 

[Brute 23]

$4000 seems like a lot, which it is, but if they are bred to decent BA bulls you could have $2K calves here shortly. They are right in that 2-3 calf range. 10-15 years from now they will still bring $1500 or more.

It's just a lot of cash to put up for 5 animals.

 

[Dave]

$4000 seems like a lot, which it is, but if they are bred to decent BA bulls you could have $2K calves here shortly. They are right in that 2-3 calf range. 10-15 years from now they will still bring $1500 or more.

It's just a lot of cash to put up for 5 animals.

I haven't seen anything close to that. Especially heifers. Maybe pairs with big calf. But I actually haven't seen many good bred heifers. Just to cut offs from a larger group. If anyone is raising bred heifers to sell they are either selling them private or on the video.

 

[Brute 23]

I haven't seen anything close to that. Especially heifers. Maybe pairs with big calf. But I actually haven't seen many good bred heifers. Just to cut offs from a larger group. If anyone is raising bred heifers to sell they are either selling them private or on the video.

That's an auction barn in the video. They might have advertised on FB or some thing if they knew they were coming but it wasn't a special sale or any thing that I am aware of.

 

[ClinchValley86]

If you plan on keeping and breeding them, then who would you be pricing them to?

People be asking. Seems each male sold now they ask about heifers.

Just about everyone i know is low on numbers compared to 5 years ago. I didn't sell down, but grew as they sold. Hopefully can take advantage while things are high w the girls. 3500 to 4000 breds sure would make it worth the effort.

 

[Dave]

I figure my break even on buying,breeding, and selling bred heifers is about $2,800. When I did that in the 2014 era I vaccinated for everything under the sun, PI tested, AI'ed with a drop dead calving ease bull, and used a calving ease bull for clean up. I raise enough to have a pot load to sell on the video. Which give you a much broader market I fed some grain daily during the winter by hand. So part of the video showed me walking through the heifers while they just stood and looked at me.

 

[ClinchValley86]

I figure my break even on buying,breeding, and selling bred heifers is about $2,800. When I did that in the 2014 era I vaccinated for everything under the sun, PI tested, AI'ed with a drop dead calving ease bull, and used a calving ease bull for clean up. I raise enough to have a pot load to sell on the video. Which give you a much broader market I fed some grain daily during the winter by hand. So part of the video showed me walking through the heifers while they just stood and looked at me.

I can have people with me in the herd and they could care less. I think that's one thing I have going for these.

I do plan to sell some oddball in the next week or two... a couple more heifers to breed might be a good plan. Try my eye out at that.

Definitely wont have a pot load. Maybe a couple 12 footers.

 

[MACVSOG]

nice looking hfrs. did the auctioneer happen to mention what flavor they were bred to?

 

[Brute 23]

nice looking hfrs. did the auctioneer happen to mention what flavor they were bred to?

No the video started kind of late but I doubt is was LH or Cor on them. Most will go LBW Angus and get the added value. Those Braford heifers spit Angus calves out like watermelon seeds.

 

[MACVSOG]

No the video started kind of late but I doubt is was LH or Cor on them. Most will go LBW Angus and get the added value. Those Braford heifers spit Angus calves out like watermelon

thanks for the reply. your response tells me you have seen my longhorn/corriente comments.
i do have bunches of them for fun. my primary interest is still black/red angus and hereford.

just different faces to look at at each place i go to. hope you are not in the flooding area of our
great state.

happy 4th!!

 

[Brute 23]

thanks for the reply. your response tells me you have seen my longhorn/corriente comments.
i do have bunches of them for fun. my primary interest is still black/red angus and hereford.

just different faces to look at at each place i go to. hope you are not in the flooding area of our
great state.

happy 4th!!

No I actually don't remember that. I have a memory like goldfish. I just don't believe in using Cor or LH for heifer bulls.