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<blockquote data-quote="Tim/South" data-source="post: 967515" data-attributes="member: 17986"><p>I bought calves for several years rather than raising them. I went back to raising my own.</p><p>Calves were cheaper then than now. My theory was that any feed or hay went directly to pounds on the calf. Not second hand through the Momma.</p><p>I was also guaranteed a live birth and could select gender.</p><p>I was buying light calves and having to creep feed them. Weaning age calves were out of my price range to show any profit.</p><p> What I learned is that a Momma cow can raise a calf better than I can. She can grow off a calf better than I can.</p><p>I know a man who sells his calves in the Fall. He then buys weaner calves and winters them on wheat, hay and some corn. He says because he raises his own corn and hay that he make a nice profit.</p><p>He says if he had to buy either the hay or the corn then it would probably not be wort it.</p><p>There are a world of people out there making a living running stocker cattle. A person would have to know what they were doing.</p><p>I do not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tim/South, post: 967515, member: 17986"] I bought calves for several years rather than raising them. I went back to raising my own. Calves were cheaper then than now. My theory was that any feed or hay went directly to pounds on the calf. Not second hand through the Momma. I was also guaranteed a live birth and could select gender. I was buying light calves and having to creep feed them. Weaning age calves were out of my price range to show any profit. What I learned is that a Momma cow can raise a calf better than I can. She can grow off a calf better than I can. I know a man who sells his calves in the Fall. He then buys weaner calves and winters them on wheat, hay and some corn. He says because he raises his own corn and hay that he make a nice profit. He says if he had to buy either the hay or the corn then it would probably not be wort it. There are a world of people out there making a living running stocker cattle. A person would have to know what they were doing. I do not. [/QUOTE]
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