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Cost of boarding a calf & temperment of Jersys?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alice" data-source="post: 268331" data-attributes="member: 3873"><p>How old are these calves? $23 per bag milk replacer? Is that like two 25# bags, or is that the cost of the milk replacer you are looking at per 50# bags? I pay $50 for 50#s.</p><p></p><p>They're gonna pay $30 per calf...they've got to be babies, right? If the milk replacer you are thinking about is only $23 per bag, then it's not good milk replacer, I wouldn't think...unless you got a real deal somehwere, and if you did, I want in on it.</p><p></p><p>Now, if this milk replacer isn't 20% fat and 20% protein, then you are in for real trouble, I think. And, depending on where these calves come from, let's say like the auction, then even with 20/20 milk replacer you will still have a challenge. So, better figure in the cost of electrolytes, probios, antibiotics, spectam scour medicine, or whatever scour medicine you prefer, and a tube apparatus.</p><p></p><p>If I've made the wrong assumption, and these calves are older calves, like 6 weeks to 2 months old, and they are getting them for $30 per calf, I want in on that deal, too, 'cause I'd have them weaned and eating dry calf feed within a few weeks.</p><p></p><p>Alice</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice, post: 268331, member: 3873"] How old are these calves? $23 per bag milk replacer? Is that like two 25# bags, or is that the cost of the milk replacer you are looking at per 50# bags? I pay $50 for 50#s. They're gonna pay $30 per calf...they've got to be babies, right? If the milk replacer you are thinking about is only $23 per bag, then it's not good milk replacer, I wouldn't think...unless you got a real deal somehwere, and if you did, I want in on it. Now, if this milk replacer isn't 20% fat and 20% protein, then you are in for real trouble, I think. And, depending on where these calves come from, let's say like the auction, then even with 20/20 milk replacer you will still have a challenge. So, better figure in the cost of electrolytes, probios, antibiotics, spectam scour medicine, or whatever scour medicine you prefer, and a tube apparatus. If I've made the wrong assumption, and these calves are older calves, like 6 weeks to 2 months old, and they are getting them for $30 per calf, I want in on that deal, too, 'cause I'd have them weaned and eating dry calf feed within a few weeks. Alice [/QUOTE]
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