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Holsteins or Jerseys? Pros and Cons?
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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 510296" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>What is your goal and what type facilities do you have? </p><p></p><p>If you are looking to buy calves and sell them at 6 months, and that's it, go with beef splits. Go to the salebarn and find cow/calf pairs that are split because the cows are old and no one is bidding. Buy that calf when it is split. It is best to get them about 2 weeks old if you can. You may have a hard time getting them to take a bottle the first couple of times at that age, but you'll get a lot more profit selling beef calves at 6 months old versus dairy steers. </p><p></p><p>If you are looking for heifers to make nurse cows out of, I prefer jerseys. Other than that, I prefer holsteins. </p><p></p><p>Lately, I just graft splits onto a nurse cow. Splits that are two weeks old generally are already healthy and you can pretty much rest assured they received colostrums from the cow when they are beef animals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 510296, member: 3162"] What is your goal and what type facilities do you have? If you are looking to buy calves and sell them at 6 months, and that's it, go with beef splits. Go to the salebarn and find cow/calf pairs that are split because the cows are old and no one is bidding. Buy that calf when it is split. It is best to get them about 2 weeks old if you can. You may have a hard time getting them to take a bottle the first couple of times at that age, but you'll get a lot more profit selling beef calves at 6 months old versus dairy steers. If you are looking for heifers to make nurse cows out of, I prefer jerseys. Other than that, I prefer holsteins. Lately, I just graft splits onto a nurse cow. Splits that are two weeks old generally are already healthy and you can pretty much rest assured they received colostrums from the cow when they are beef animals. [/QUOTE]
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