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<blockquote data-quote="mwj" data-source="post: 60082" data-attributes="member: 491"><p>Bez We agree on a lot of things on this issue!!! I see those dairy cows go thru the barn all the time. The irony is a good thin dairy cow will bring as much or more as my fat nonbreeder :shock: The cow market in my part of the country is very robust, they buy cows with as much or more competition as fats. What about bulls you did not mention them? They will be kept to a fairly old age and are exposed to everything the cows are feed wise. The bad thing about dairy cow condition is genetics, they will milk off every bit of fat into the bucket. They must process huge amounts of feed and that is where my concern is. They are fed lots of concentrate and fat to keep up the milkfat and cheap protien is animal biproducts, they are fed daily over long periods and this may be where trouble starts.Most people have no idea the condition of the cull cattle that go thru the system and think that since they now have to walk things are ok. There has always been a market for culls and cripples and I supose since the profit can be very good, there always will be. You should start this as a seperate new thread on the beg. board so you can get more input, I think this is very interesting subject.</p><p> your friend</p><p> Mike</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mwj, post: 60082, member: 491"] Bez We agree on a lot of things on this issue!!! I see those dairy cows go thru the barn all the time. The irony is a good thin dairy cow will bring as much or more as my fat nonbreeder :shock: The cow market in my part of the country is very robust, they buy cows with as much or more competition as fats. What about bulls you did not mention them? They will be kept to a fairly old age and are exposed to everything the cows are feed wise. The bad thing about dairy cow condition is genetics, they will milk off every bit of fat into the bucket. They must process huge amounts of feed and that is where my concern is. They are fed lots of concentrate and fat to keep up the milkfat and cheap protien is animal biproducts, they are fed daily over long periods and this may be where trouble starts.Most people have no idea the condition of the cull cattle that go thru the system and think that since they now have to walk things are ok. There has always been a market for culls and cripples and I supose since the profit can be very good, there always will be. You should start this as a seperate new thread on the beg. board so you can get more input, I think this is very interesting subject. your friend Mike [/QUOTE]
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