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First calf spring 2011
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 853609" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>bobby calves for Waihou: average calf is $1.10/kg carcase and 17 - 20 dollars. One was just under the threshhold, and they've given me $1.78 for it, 20 cents a kilo. Another was 28 kg and made $40, more than I was getting in the saleyards in 2009 for white face calves - but I can't see how that's my calf. I loaded a 50 kg plus Jersey cross onto the trailer and didn't notice it?? I think we've only had a couple of calves born at or over 40kg this season and they're all three in the calf shed, though I haven't got the scales out this year.</p><p></p><p>Did you get much snow? Melting here already, but the forecast is for more over the next three days or so. I got most of the calves into the shed yesterday, so there's only two newborns out there and probably a third by now.</p><p></p><p>I've had two calves rejected so far for still having wet navels. One was four days old, the other I'd loaded for the bobby truck accidentally, and was only two days. They don't dry up as fast when they're out in the mud and rain, apparently. I noticed a couple of calves that were fully four days old I put into the shed yesterday, and still wet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 853609, member: 9267"] bobby calves for Waihou: average calf is $1.10/kg carcase and 17 - 20 dollars. One was just under the threshhold, and they've given me $1.78 for it, 20 cents a kilo. Another was 28 kg and made $40, more than I was getting in the saleyards in 2009 for white face calves - but I can't see how that's my calf. I loaded a 50 kg plus Jersey cross onto the trailer and didn't notice it?? I think we've only had a couple of calves born at or over 40kg this season and they're all three in the calf shed, though I haven't got the scales out this year. Did you get much snow? Melting here already, but the forecast is for more over the next three days or so. I got most of the calves into the shed yesterday, so there's only two newborns out there and probably a third by now. I've had two calves rejected so far for still having wet navels. One was four days old, the other I'd loaded for the bobby truck accidentally, and was only two days. They don't dry up as fast when they're out in the mud and rain, apparently. I noticed a couple of calves that were fully four days old I put into the shed yesterday, and still wet. [/QUOTE]
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