WestieGirl
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I know that my dad has done this before, only not with dairy calves he would buy some old canner cows that were breed, calve them out and then sell the day old or so calves to local farmers that needed a replacer baby for a good cow that had lost her's. And then we would ship the cow out to the auction barn after she had put some wieght on. You would be suprised at how far people would travel to get a calf and the price that they would be willing to pay...I know that some of the nice bull calves we could get somewhere between $350-500 depending on who was looking for them and what we had to offer, and heifer calves would always go for a little less. They only problem that we really didn't know what the cows were like that we were getting involved in...we could get some nice looking, young'ish cows only to realize that after they had chased us up the fence a couple times after they had calved that there is always a reason that bred cows are going through the ring!! ;-)