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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1539486" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>This is a decent cross if you are wanting to keep the heifers for possible replacements. In this area the popular crosses with the dairy farms is basically as SOB said... breed the top 1/3 of the herd to sexed dairy semen, then the rest to beef. It is getting more popular since the straight dairy heifers are worth very little now. However in this area they are using black... angus or black limi . The biggest problem is that the heifers will have udder and milking issues. They can often raise a 2nd calf due to higher milk production...or they can get mastitis from too much milk and the calf not using it all. The limi does tend to knock out some of the milkiness so that they do not get as much of the udder issues. The thing here, so many that buy these black calves do so to graft on a beef cow that has lost a calf, or want to raise a couple of black calves up to sell as feeders later on. The jersey cross makes some pretty good eating and will put on more meat than a straight jersey calf of course.</p><p>With replacement dairy heifers, springing, not worth 1,000 at this time, a supposed "surplus" of milk and milk prices at the lowest imaginable in the $14.50 to $16.00 per hundred wt., the dairy farmers are going out of business and those staying in are looking for any way they can to make the calves worth more. Holstein bull calves are bringing $10. to $50. and heifers are less. The black calves are in the $50 to $150 if someone needs one to go on a cow. This time of year there are fall calving beef herds so there is more of a possibility of needing a calf to graft on a cow. </p><p>Holstein feeder steers in the 4-600 wts are down, in the 40's and 50's again. That was where prices were 20 years ago... it is not a good situation right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1539486, member: 25884"] This is a decent cross if you are wanting to keep the heifers for possible replacements. In this area the popular crosses with the dairy farms is basically as SOB said... breed the top 1/3 of the herd to sexed dairy semen, then the rest to beef. It is getting more popular since the straight dairy heifers are worth very little now. However in this area they are using black... angus or black limi . The biggest problem is that the heifers will have udder and milking issues. They can often raise a 2nd calf due to higher milk production...or they can get mastitis from too much milk and the calf not using it all. The limi does tend to knock out some of the milkiness so that they do not get as much of the udder issues. The thing here, so many that buy these black calves do so to graft on a beef cow that has lost a calf, or want to raise a couple of black calves up to sell as feeders later on. The jersey cross makes some pretty good eating and will put on more meat than a straight jersey calf of course. With replacement dairy heifers, springing, not worth 1,000 at this time, a supposed "surplus" of milk and milk prices at the lowest imaginable in the $14.50 to $16.00 per hundred wt., the dairy farmers are going out of business and those staying in are looking for any way they can to make the calves worth more. Holstein bull calves are bringing $10. to $50. and heifers are less. The black calves are in the $50 to $150 if someone needs one to go on a cow. This time of year there are fall calving beef herds so there is more of a possibility of needing a calf to graft on a cow. Holstein feeder steers in the 4-600 wts are down, in the 40's and 50's again. That was where prices were 20 years ago... it is not a good situation right now. [/QUOTE]
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