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<blockquote data-quote="hillbillycwo" data-source="post: 731225" data-attributes="member: 13747"><p>I like the theory behind the preconditioned stock but I am doing the cow calf end exclusively right now. Buying cow calf pairs at the market in October you are basically getting one free in my area as there are lots of them on the market as farmers cull down for the coming winter. I buy the older versions with good weights 1300-1400 pounds for around 500 dollars or so they have 200-300 pound calves on them and are bred back to calve in the spring. I wean that calve at about 500 pounds in January ands then sell it. Momma calves and that calf goes in September time frame. I keep some of those old cows and if her calf is not so good she goes to the market as a slaughter cow for around 36 hwt. Works pretty good. Gives lots of flexibility come time for payments. I have gotten some really good heifers that way too from those old cows. Plus I find as a bonus they really help keep the herd calm. Learned the hard way though to keep them seperated for a few weeks to observe for disease.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillbillycwo, post: 731225, member: 13747"] I like the theory behind the preconditioned stock but I am doing the cow calf end exclusively right now. Buying cow calf pairs at the market in October you are basically getting one free in my area as there are lots of them on the market as farmers cull down for the coming winter. I buy the older versions with good weights 1300-1400 pounds for around 500 dollars or so they have 200-300 pound calves on them and are bred back to calve in the spring. I wean that calve at about 500 pounds in January ands then sell it. Momma calves and that calf goes in September time frame. I keep some of those old cows and if her calf is not so good she goes to the market as a slaughter cow for around 36 hwt. Works pretty good. Gives lots of flexibility come time for payments. I have gotten some really good heifers that way too from those old cows. Plus I find as a bonus they really help keep the herd calm. Learned the hard way though to keep them seperated for a few weeks to observe for disease. [/QUOTE]
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