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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 105228" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I started hearing the term heiferette about 6 or 7 years ago. Used to, I could buy thin, open heifers that had raised one calf for 30-40 cents per pound and breed them and sell them for a huge profit as springers. They would only bring slaughter price and because they were thin, the slaughter price was cheap. Then, the feedlots started feeding them out and instead of them bringing 30 cents, they were bringing 50 cents and then as the fed beef market went up, they also went up to 80 or 90 and even up to 1.10 per pound at one time. The Heiferette market deserves alot of credit for our good cattle market right now, because those heifers were going to the feedlot instead of back to the farm. For about 5 or 6 years the bred heifers were worth less than the open heifers. The last couple of years the bred heifers have caught up, but a good 850 lb thin heifer that has raised a calf will still bring 80-90 cents per pound, which isnt too bad. It is my understanding that a heiferette is anything that mouths out 3 years and down but has had a calf. There was a short term scare with bse and they slowed down buying them to feed, but they are doing it as strongly now as before</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 105228, member: 1150"] I started hearing the term heiferette about 6 or 7 years ago. Used to, I could buy thin, open heifers that had raised one calf for 30-40 cents per pound and breed them and sell them for a huge profit as springers. They would only bring slaughter price and because they were thin, the slaughter price was cheap. Then, the feedlots started feeding them out and instead of them bringing 30 cents, they were bringing 50 cents and then as the fed beef market went up, they also went up to 80 or 90 and even up to 1.10 per pound at one time. The Heiferette market deserves alot of credit for our good cattle market right now, because those heifers were going to the feedlot instead of back to the farm. For about 5 or 6 years the bred heifers were worth less than the open heifers. The last couple of years the bred heifers have caught up, but a good 850 lb thin heifer that has raised a calf will still bring 80-90 cents per pound, which isnt too bad. It is my understanding that a heiferette is anything that mouths out 3 years and down but has had a calf. There was a short term scare with bse and they slowed down buying them to feed, but they are doing it as strongly now as before [/QUOTE]
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