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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 656944" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>.</p><p>I went to a calving season last year, prices here are usually good late Oct to Feb, I went to this strategy as I can put more pounds on the calf's when the weather turns cooler. Drawback is you have to have enough pasture and hay to hold them as I did last year, I plant winter pasture also. I held the crop of calves until mid Jan and got an average of 1.06 a pound. In a bad hay year could get burned on selling light calves if you don't have hay stockpiled to hold them.</p><p>The thought process was to calf early enough before the real heat hits and milk production goes down and growth slows and to have the calfs old enough to put some real weight gain on them when the weather turns cooler without running wet cows in the winter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 656944, member: 694"] . I went to a calving season last year, prices here are usually good late Oct to Feb, I went to this strategy as I can put more pounds on the calf's when the weather turns cooler. Drawback is you have to have enough pasture and hay to hold them as I did last year, I plant winter pasture also. I held the crop of calves until mid Jan and got an average of 1.06 a pound. In a bad hay year could get burned on selling light calves if you don't have hay stockpiled to hold them. The thought process was to calf early enough before the real heat hits and milk production goes down and growth slows and to have the calfs old enough to put some real weight gain on them when the weather turns cooler without running wet cows in the winter. [/QUOTE]
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