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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 450535" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>A dry cow who hasn't raised a calf in two year should be good to eat. It might not be the tenderest meat you ever had but really good flavor. My personal preference would have been to kill her a month ago right off grass. I gave a dry cow right off grass to my kids last year. The butcher said it was one of the tenderest ones he had cut all year, steers included. The kids all said it was a great eating beef. The only reason I would consider giving her grain is M.Sarria said she was going to butcher the cow in November. The weather here is changing. This is going to put more enviromental pressure on the cow. Adding a little energy to her diet to keep her in good shape will help.</p><p>Selling her on this market and using the money to buy a calf is questionable at best. She would probably net around $400 for this cow. That transfers to a pretty small feeder steer that would need to be fed for almost a year to finish. This is a bad time of the year to buy small feeder steers around here. Nothing like 40 degrees and rain every day to convert a small feeder into a snotty nosed calf who in turn becomes a sick calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 450535, member: 498"] A dry cow who hasn't raised a calf in two year should be good to eat. It might not be the tenderest meat you ever had but really good flavor. My personal preference would have been to kill her a month ago right off grass. I gave a dry cow right off grass to my kids last year. The butcher said it was one of the tenderest ones he had cut all year, steers included. The kids all said it was a great eating beef. The only reason I would consider giving her grain is M.Sarria said she was going to butcher the cow in November. The weather here is changing. This is going to put more enviromental pressure on the cow. Adding a little energy to her diet to keep her in good shape will help. Selling her on this market and using the money to buy a calf is questionable at best. She would probably net around $400 for this cow. That transfers to a pretty small feeder steer that would need to be fed for almost a year to finish. This is a bad time of the year to buy small feeder steers around here. Nothing like 40 degrees and rain every day to convert a small feeder into a snotty nosed calf who in turn becomes a sick calf. [/QUOTE]
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