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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1091837" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>don't know about today...</p><p>Raised a bunch of 'em, back in the late '80s - bought straight off the farms - from my dairy clients, not at the salebarn. Lucked up and had minimal sickness or death loss. Made enough money on the steers to pay for raising a bunch of their heifer mates, which I sold at a pretty good clip as bred/springing heifers; was a win-win deal all the way around. </p><p>Got back into 'em again, for a short time in the mid '90s; lost a bunch to scours, and they brought about as much when we sold 'em as 400-450# calves as we paid for them as 2-3 day old babies. </p><p>Don't care if I never have another Holstein on the place, or a bottle calf of any sort, for that matter. </p><p></p><p>IF you get healthy calves, and don't experience ANY sickness or DEATH LOSS, you can probably do OK with them - but sometimes it turns into a trainwreck. Somebody on CT, just recently, bought a truckload of 85 baby dairy calves out of FL and had lost all but 11 inside of a week or so - haven't revisited that thread recently to see if ANY survived.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1091837, member: 12607"] don't know about today... Raised a bunch of 'em, back in the late '80s - bought straight off the farms - from my dairy clients, not at the salebarn. Lucked up and had minimal sickness or death loss. Made enough money on the steers to pay for raising a bunch of their heifer mates, which I sold at a pretty good clip as bred/springing heifers; was a win-win deal all the way around. Got back into 'em again, for a short time in the mid '90s; lost a bunch to scours, and they brought about as much when we sold 'em as 400-450# calves as we paid for them as 2-3 day old babies. Don't care if I never have another Holstein on the place, or a bottle calf of any sort, for that matter. IF you get healthy calves, and don't experience ANY sickness or DEATH LOSS, you can probably do OK with them - but sometimes it turns into a trainwreck. Somebody on CT, just recently, bought a truckload of 85 baby dairy calves out of FL and had lost all but 11 inside of a week or so - haven't revisited that thread recently to see if ANY survived. [/QUOTE]
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