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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 93471" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>If you waited til 1 week before selling - they would be really stressed out and lose any gain they had from being a bull vs steer gain. </p><p>Saying they make the same amount of money selling bulls, is sometimes a copout for good management.</p><p>Really depends (again) on your market. Some feedlots like to feed out bulls. If you have some in your area, than the price of bull calves could be decent.</p><p>Also depends on when you are selling them. Right off cows, preconditioned, backgrounded, finished.</p><p>I castrate all our male calves as soon as I decide they are not bull quality. Some of them are at birth, some at 2-4 months old, some at 6 months old. They are sold or put on a feedlot at about 8-9 months old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 93471, member: 968"] If you waited til 1 week before selling - they would be really stressed out and lose any gain they had from being a bull vs steer gain. Saying they make the same amount of money selling bulls, is sometimes a copout for good management. Really depends (again) on your market. Some feedlots like to feed out bulls. If you have some in your area, than the price of bull calves could be decent. Also depends on when you are selling them. Right off cows, preconditioned, backgrounded, finished. I castrate all our male calves as soon as I decide they are not bull quality. Some of them are at birth, some at 2-4 months old, some at 6 months old. They are sold or put on a feedlot at about 8-9 months old. [/QUOTE]
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