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Growing out calves to start up?
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<blockquote data-quote="denvermartinfarms" data-source="post: 1239466" data-attributes="member: 16167"><p>I will go ahead and say your numbers are a little off, I like to buy bull calves at 400lbs to 700lbs and never let them get over 850lbs, most I buy 400 to 500lbs and sell either between 500 and 550lbs or 600 and 650lbs. </p><p></p><p>Your idea on the 200 and 300lb calves is not bad, but there will be some more sickness, they are harder to get on feed and won't gain as well as bigger calves for a while. You also don't want to let anything get to 900lbs unless you have a direct buyer lined up ahead of time giving you some incentive for that size. </p><p></p><p>If you want to be in the cow calf business I would start there, you can buy decent cows for 1800$ and 2000$ pretty easy, won't all be young #1 blacks, but won't be junk either. That's probably a better direction for you than buying 1200$ calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="denvermartinfarms, post: 1239466, member: 16167"] I will go ahead and say your numbers are a little off, I like to buy bull calves at 400lbs to 700lbs and never let them get over 850lbs, most I buy 400 to 500lbs and sell either between 500 and 550lbs or 600 and 650lbs. Your idea on the 200 and 300lb calves is not bad, but there will be some more sickness, they are harder to get on feed and won't gain as well as bigger calves for a while. You also don't want to let anything get to 900lbs unless you have a direct buyer lined up ahead of time giving you some incentive for that size. If you want to be in the cow calf business I would start there, you can buy decent cows for 1800$ and 2000$ pretty easy, won't all be young #1 blacks, but won't be junk either. That's probably a better direction for you than buying 1200$ calves. [/QUOTE]
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