Angus Cowman":1jpzkn50 said:
so is feeding that calf for that 240 days worth $129.40 for your time and labor and if you are selling by hanging weight at $2.00 per lb I cannot even see that you can break even
The cut and wrapped meat and me selling at $1.25 per lb come out around $2.75 pr lb for the customer
kill is $20 and processing is $.40 pr lb hanging weight
That's why we have the purchaser pay the butcher fees. Last year with everything included the actual cost per lb of delivered meat was around $2.9x for each person, including everything from steaks to burger. All of the meat is vacuum packaged, also. We grain ours for about a month after weaning, about 3-4lbs/day or so, then they're turned loose with the weaned heifers for about 4 months on stockpiled fescue. Then they go in the lot and are fed for about 90 days, I don't have the cost figures for this year's group yet but I'm keeping pretty close tabs on them so far.
For simplicity's sake, let's use a 1000lb animal. If you sell him at $1.25/lb on the hoof, that's $1250. If he hangs 60%, that's 600lbs x $2/lb to the tune of $1200. If by chance he hangs 65%, then it's $1300. Six one way, half a dozen the other.