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Sounds about right, it would probably bring in the low 800s here. Those are not very easy to sell. Your weighing the risk of getting one that might raise the calf for 535$ or very possibly losing the calf and mother and your 535$.
 
denvermartinfarms":2vn5zyfh said:
Sounds about right, it would probably bring in the low 800s here. Those are not very easy to sell. Your weighing the risk of getting one that might raise the calf for 535$ or very possibly losing the calf and mother and your 535$.
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I would have let that one go it would have either been someone else's loss or profit not mine.
 
I've bought about 30 of those small 650 to 800lb bred heifers in the last year or so that were bred to young by there brother or dad, paid 700 to 1100$.

Some made good cows, some lost there calves and I sold the open heifers for more than I paid for them bred. sometimes they didn't have enough milk so I split them and made good money. And then finally 3 days ago I had the first one of those die calving and lost both, went in the brush and I couldn't find her for a couple days, so my luck finally ran out. I was just glad it was a 900$ heifer and not a 2900$ cow.
 
If she was really close to 800lbs I would have tried her out. Yea, I tend to avoid those scenarios though. Yea, The reward is worth the risk sometimes but I just don't like fooling with heifers like that. I have better luck with buying young or thin calves and cleaning them up. Yesterday they had about 5 heifers like that come through the ring probably from same farm.
 
I know one guy that will give 1000 to 1250 for them if they weight 600-750. His son is a vet so he has him pelvic measure it and reach in them and feel the calf and if he thinks he can get it out he will keep the heifer other wise they get resold. He buys 4-6 a week usually but he just sold 25 calves off of them and they brought back 1232 after commission so I guess it's working. He just grows the mothers and breeds them back and sells them as second calvers. His last bunch weighed over 950 when he went to sell them and I'm not sure what they brought but I'm guessing it was pretty close to 2,000.
 
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I saw a registered angus weighed 695 come through bred 4 months yesterday. She was off of some replacement heifers. I was sitting by the guy selling her and he couldn't believe she was bred. Said she must have bred in the light fives when he had them with the bull yet. She brought 1300 to get aborted. I thought that was a good way to cheapen up your replacements.
 
Every time one of those comes through the ring I recite to myself, down by the creek, in the middle of the night, in a driving rain, with a dim flashlight that has a going dead battery, trying to pull the calf. By the time I get done reciting that the heifer has sold so I don't have to worry.
 
Dave":1dirr097 said:
Every time one of those comes through the ring I recite to myself, down by the creek, in the middle of the night, in a driving rain, with a dim flashlight that has a going dead battery, trying to pull the calf. By the time I get done reciting that the heifer has sold so I don't have to worry.
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Very good Dave :clap:.
 
Dave":1zvlz2s6 said:
Every time one of those comes through the ring I recite to myself, down by the creek, in the middle of the night, in a driving rain, with a dim flashlight that has a going dead battery, trying to pull the calf. By the time I get done reciting that the heifer has sold so I don't have to worry.
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:lol2:
 
Dave":12xgwbuh said:
Every time one of those comes through the ring I recite to myself, down by the creek, in the middle of the night, in a driving rain, with a dim flashlight that has a going dead battery, trying to pull the calf. By the time I get done reciting that the heifer has sold so I don't have to worry.
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words to live by--or sleep sound and warm by.
I need to remember that..
 

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