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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 13852"><p>They can be very profitable or they can lose a lot of money as well. If you can develop a system which minimizes the death loss and you can keep them untill they are very large they will bring excellent money and will make more money than any other types of cattle. 35% of the beef in the US is dairy beef and the largest individual feedlot feeds only holstein cattle, so somebody has to be making money from them. If the bottle calves can be bought cheap enough fom the dairyman then this is the best avenue, because they have been exposed to the least amount of disease and are more likely to be healthy. If you get them past the first month you are out of the woods and they will grow asgood or better than anything else. The problem is learning a marketing system. I buy them at about 350 lbs. and run them on wheat and grass untill they weigh about 1000 lbs. then we feed barley for about a month and a half and direct market them. A fat Holstein will bring within 5-7 dollars of a premium steer when they are fat and you can make good money doiing this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 13852"] They can be very profitable or they can lose a lot of money as well. If you can develop a system which minimizes the death loss and you can keep them untill they are very large they will bring excellent money and will make more money than any other types of cattle. 35% of the beef in the US is dairy beef and the largest individual feedlot feeds only holstein cattle, so somebody has to be making money from them. If the bottle calves can be bought cheap enough fom the dairyman then this is the best avenue, because they have been exposed to the least amount of disease and are more likely to be healthy. If you get them past the first month you are out of the woods and they will grow asgood or better than anything else. The problem is learning a marketing system. I buy them at about 350 lbs. and run them on wheat and grass untill they weigh about 1000 lbs. then we feed barley for about a month and a half and direct market them. A fat Holstein will bring within 5-7 dollars of a premium steer when they are fat and you can make good money doiing this. [/QUOTE]
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