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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1389764" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Pulled the ad up from the reference above, and to me they have jersey heads if I ever saw any on a beef cross. Also, see the reference to them being on a TMR feed. They are being really "fed". If you are going to really feed them then you might do okay, but if you are going to have them roughing it I think they will lose condition. Again, don't know what your particular situation is. I really think you need to talk to someone that has bought his cattle in the past and what they think or even better, go see some. Don't know how many you are thinking about buying, but to me the price is high. We are buying straight angus bred heifers here for $1200 or less regularly. Have a friend who raises and sells about 50 every nov-dec. bred for spring calves to easy calving angus. They averaged under $1200 at the sale he consigns them to. They had nice growth, and were just decent working heifers. </p><p>Maybe cattle do differently where you are. We get alot of cold wet rainy sleety snowy type weather here instead of just snow and it is hard on the cattle. We have been having 50's down to 25; now are having snow maybe a couple of inches, temps in the 20's, then turning colder with temps the next couple of days not supposed to hit the mid 20's during the day and single digits at night, with some real strong winds for the next 2 days; then back up to the 40's and low 50's by thurs with rain inbetween. All our animals have cedar thickets to go to for wind breaks and some shelter from the worst of the cold and wet. Some places have some shelters too. They all have round bales of hay and they are put in different places so that they can lay on the loose stuff left after we put new ones down in a different place. It's pretty hilly here so they can find places in swales and such out of the wind too. So I can say I have NO experience with your type of operation. If you think they are good and a decent price for your area then I would get a group and try them. For us, not so much. If you wanted to make a trip east in the fall for straight angus heifers, I would be glad to hook you up with this guy. He's no slouch, has decent cattle and would be glad to sell a trailer load to one person I am sure. We are strictly cow/calf and raise some of our own heifers up and buy and sell a few as we see an opportunity to make a bit; he is also cow/calf but raises heifers up to sell as breds every year...part of his farm plan I guess. We have some rented land close to some of his and had 9 heifers get over on his this past year, ran with his bulls so will have some unplanned calves this spring. He told us specifically when they gathered up their cattle and got ours out that the bulls were all easy calving so we shouldn't have any problems. We have done a few favors back and forth over the years and I wouldn't hesitate to buy from him if we were in the market for heifers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1389764, member: 25884"] Pulled the ad up from the reference above, and to me they have jersey heads if I ever saw any on a beef cross. Also, see the reference to them being on a TMR feed. They are being really "fed". If you are going to really feed them then you might do okay, but if you are going to have them roughing it I think they will lose condition. Again, don't know what your particular situation is. I really think you need to talk to someone that has bought his cattle in the past and what they think or even better, go see some. Don't know how many you are thinking about buying, but to me the price is high. We are buying straight angus bred heifers here for $1200 or less regularly. Have a friend who raises and sells about 50 every nov-dec. bred for spring calves to easy calving angus. They averaged under $1200 at the sale he consigns them to. They had nice growth, and were just decent working heifers. Maybe cattle do differently where you are. We get alot of cold wet rainy sleety snowy type weather here instead of just snow and it is hard on the cattle. We have been having 50's down to 25; now are having snow maybe a couple of inches, temps in the 20's, then turning colder with temps the next couple of days not supposed to hit the mid 20's during the day and single digits at night, with some real strong winds for the next 2 days; then back up to the 40's and low 50's by thurs with rain inbetween. All our animals have cedar thickets to go to for wind breaks and some shelter from the worst of the cold and wet. Some places have some shelters too. They all have round bales of hay and they are put in different places so that they can lay on the loose stuff left after we put new ones down in a different place. It's pretty hilly here so they can find places in swales and such out of the wind too. So I can say I have NO experience with your type of operation. If you think they are good and a decent price for your area then I would get a group and try them. For us, not so much. If you wanted to make a trip east in the fall for straight angus heifers, I would be glad to hook you up with this guy. He's no slouch, has decent cattle and would be glad to sell a trailer load to one person I am sure. We are strictly cow/calf and raise some of our own heifers up and buy and sell a few as we see an opportunity to make a bit; he is also cow/calf but raises heifers up to sell as breds every year...part of his farm plan I guess. We have some rented land close to some of his and had 9 heifers get over on his this past year, ran with his bulls so will have some unplanned calves this spring. He told us specifically when they gathered up their cattle and got ours out that the bulls were all easy calving so we shouldn't have any problems. We have done a few favors back and forth over the years and I wouldn't hesitate to buy from him if we were in the market for heifers. [/QUOTE]
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