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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 69170" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Every winter I plan to buy breds that are selling at kill price or slightly higher. Some of them just last until mid summer and I ship them and their calf back (generally the old ones). Some stay around a year or two if they do a decent job of raising a calf. I have one out in the pasture that I bought in '97 for 25 cents over kill price. At that time the 1250 pound cow cost me $352. She has weaned a 700 pound calf every year since. I almost shipped her last fall because she is showing her age. I thought real seriously about it but kept her. She had another bull calf last week.</p><p>I have a limit on how much I will spend on them. If I can buy them for one bid more than the kill buyers I will come out every time. The few that lose a calf I go backwards on but not as much as I do on a cow that I have fed all winter. I try to buy enough of them that the average will work out in my favor.</p><p>Milkmaid, the feedlots I have been to just give the calves born there to the workers. I know one man who packs them home for his boys to raise. As you said they are worth more than holsteins, although holsteins are selling pretty well right now.</p><p>Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 69170, member: 498"] Every winter I plan to buy breds that are selling at kill price or slightly higher. Some of them just last until mid summer and I ship them and their calf back (generally the old ones). Some stay around a year or two if they do a decent job of raising a calf. I have one out in the pasture that I bought in '97 for 25 cents over kill price. At that time the 1250 pound cow cost me $352. She has weaned a 700 pound calf every year since. I almost shipped her last fall because she is showing her age. I thought real seriously about it but kept her. She had another bull calf last week. I have a limit on how much I will spend on them. If I can buy them for one bid more than the kill buyers I will come out every time. The few that lose a calf I go backwards on but not as much as I do on a cow that I have fed all winter. I try to buy enough of them that the average will work out in my favor. Milkmaid, the feedlots I have been to just give the calves born there to the workers. I know one man who packs them home for his boys to raise. As you said they are worth more than holsteins, although holsteins are selling pretty well right now. Dave [/QUOTE]
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