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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1395446" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>I plugged some bull cost and calf selling price numbers into a Texas A&M excel tab with this name. It basically said I needed an additional lb. of weaning wt. per calf to pay for an additional $100 of bull purchase price. This assumption could get a guy in a bidding war for those +100# WW terminal bull epds...</p><p></p><p>But there was no Pharo like additional cow and calf costs identified for that additional pound of weaning weight. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> So I think there is a couple questions that need to be addressed:</p><p></p><p>- Are your calf feed inputs good enough that you will actually see any increase in weaning weight? (I think mine are)</p><p>- What is the cost of gain? (this gets a bit harder, perhaps worst case would be cost of creep feed, 10 to 1 conversion on $200/ton creep would give a $1.00 cost of gain w/o any bull cost, so really need to do it with forage at current calf prices)</p><p></p><p>Am I missing anything here?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1395446, member: 1715"] I plugged some bull cost and calf selling price numbers into a Texas A&M excel tab with this name. It basically said I needed an additional lb. of weaning wt. per calf to pay for an additional $100 of bull purchase price. This assumption could get a guy in a bidding war for those +100# WW terminal bull epds... But there was no Pharo like additional cow and calf costs identified for that additional pound of weaning weight. :( So I think there is a couple questions that need to be addressed: - Are your calf feed inputs good enough that you will actually see any increase in weaning weight? (I think mine are) - What is the cost of gain? (this gets a bit harder, perhaps worst case would be cost of creep feed, 10 to 1 conversion on $200/ton creep would give a $1.00 cost of gain w/o any bull cost, so really need to do it with forage at current calf prices) Am I missing anything here? [/QUOTE]
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