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<blockquote data-quote="Bez+" data-source="post: 650305" data-attributes="member: 6797"><p>If one follows some of my past posts - we tend to give a lot of them away.</p><p></p><p>And we raise HH</p><p></p><p>Not too many folks looking to bottle feed a calf nowadays - especially with the cost of milk replacer.</p><p></p><p>Better be a real stellar calf to interest me in thinking I would give anyone more than a hundred bucks for it - papers mean nothing - funny how folks think it means the price goes up - most are not worth breeeding anyways and should be eaten.</p><p></p><p>The risk of taking on a bottle sucker includes death - lots of potential issues with sickness and scours and so on. Anyone who has raised suckers has lost at least one somewhere along the line or has hardly ever raised them. The cost of feed and the biggest one - the TIME.</p><p></p><p>Hope you find someone to take it at one of those big prices I am seeing on this thread - must be a better market down south.</p><p></p><p>Make a kid happy and send it down the road to them for a "project". Worst case scenario it costs you a hundred bucks in lost revenue - but you save in feed and time and break even in the end - plus you make some kid happy and some parent PO'd at the cost of feeding it. ;-]</p><p></p><p>Best to you</p><p></p><p>Bez+</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bez+, post: 650305, member: 6797"] If one follows some of my past posts - we tend to give a lot of them away. And we raise HH Not too many folks looking to bottle feed a calf nowadays - especially with the cost of milk replacer. Better be a real stellar calf to interest me in thinking I would give anyone more than a hundred bucks for it - papers mean nothing - funny how folks think it means the price goes up - most are not worth breeeding anyways and should be eaten. The risk of taking on a bottle sucker includes death - lots of potential issues with sickness and scours and so on. Anyone who has raised suckers has lost at least one somewhere along the line or has hardly ever raised them. The cost of feed and the biggest one - the TIME. Hope you find someone to take it at one of those big prices I am seeing on this thread - must be a better market down south. Make a kid happy and send it down the road to them for a "project". Worst case scenario it costs you a hundred bucks in lost revenue - but you save in feed and time and break even in the end - plus you make some kid happy and some parent PO'd at the cost of feeding it. ;-] Best to you Bez+ [/QUOTE]
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