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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1531186" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I'm going to spend a little time at the sale tomorrow. We are looking to ship 15-30 next week. Got a couple of open cows, and both heifers and steers to sell. Anywhere from 4's to 6's. Some January calves that were bought cows, so a variety, some heifers we kept but are looking at turning them into buying back breds now. </p><p>Why keep a decent but not super duper, heifer at 550 lbs, worth about $6-700 and feed for another 2 years to sell a calf off her when we can buy some breds for $8-1,000 and have a calf to sell in the spring? Some won't be great calves, but at $1.00 lb as a low for these heifers, that's $550 value. Another 18 months before you even get a calf on the ground is another $5-600 in her, then another 7 months to wean the calf so another $300. If I buy some breds at $900 and sell calves off them in 7 months, I am a year ahead of the timeline. Granted, there is no guarantee the calves will be good, and there will be some salvage value to the cow if I don't like her or the calf. </p><p> It is a bit of a trade off, but I think we would do better to not be feeding a growing weaned heifer through the winter with greater nutritional needs. Granted we will keep the heifers we really like and feed, but it may be a smaller group than originally thought. Got some old cows on pasture with calves, 6 I think, and we might just take them too. They look as good as they are going to and cull cows are in the 40-60's. We have quite a bit of stockpiled grass, and are just starting to get fall calves on the ground. Have about 15 so far with about 70 more to go. Rather put the feed into them. Well, will see how the market is tomorrow. They were off last week due to the hurricane Flo and water and flooding, so maybe by next week things will have settled down a bit. We will have more to go later in the fall but they are on grass so no reason to pull too many off now; unless prices are real high, then we will pull more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1531186, member: 25884"] I'm going to spend a little time at the sale tomorrow. We are looking to ship 15-30 next week. Got a couple of open cows, and both heifers and steers to sell. Anywhere from 4's to 6's. Some January calves that were bought cows, so a variety, some heifers we kept but are looking at turning them into buying back breds now. Why keep a decent but not super duper, heifer at 550 lbs, worth about $6-700 and feed for another 2 years to sell a calf off her when we can buy some breds for $8-1,000 and have a calf to sell in the spring? Some won't be great calves, but at $1.00 lb as a low for these heifers, that's $550 value. Another 18 months before you even get a calf on the ground is another $5-600 in her, then another 7 months to wean the calf so another $300. If I buy some breds at $900 and sell calves off them in 7 months, I am a year ahead of the timeline. Granted, there is no guarantee the calves will be good, and there will be some salvage value to the cow if I don't like her or the calf. It is a bit of a trade off, but I think we would do better to not be feeding a growing weaned heifer through the winter with greater nutritional needs. Granted we will keep the heifers we really like and feed, but it may be a smaller group than originally thought. Got some old cows on pasture with calves, 6 I think, and we might just take them too. They look as good as they are going to and cull cows are in the 40-60's. We have quite a bit of stockpiled grass, and are just starting to get fall calves on the ground. Have about 15 so far with about 70 more to go. Rather put the feed into them. Well, will see how the market is tomorrow. They were off last week due to the hurricane Flo and water and flooding, so maybe by next week things will have settled down a bit. We will have more to go later in the fall but they are on grass so no reason to pull too many off now; unless prices are real high, then we will pull more. [/QUOTE]
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