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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 24547" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>One part of your response reaaly struck a chord with me. "treated no different than my keepers". My old mentor was a dairyman, he used an ANgus or Hereford bull on his heifers. All the cross calves I hauled to the salebran for him, except for the half that I kept myself. Holstein bull calves sold for around 2-3 dollars, cross calf ehifers around 25-50, bulls 75-100. Holstein heifers were never sold unless it had to be pulled or were twins. None freemartins were alwasy kept for table beef. Every calf born was treated exactly the same. Scour boluses as soon as they were brought up, 3 full days (6 feedings) of cholstrum, no calf shipped until it was at least 7 days old. Tjose were his standards and he maintaned them. Obviously the $2 calves were barely a break even while the others were profit makeers. I never hauled a known sickly calf to the sale barn. After a couple of months, folks would line up at the unloading gate and write down the numbers of the calves I was dropping off. Wasn't long and Holstein bulls were around 25-35 bucks and the cross calves had almost doubled. A reputation for quality, healthy calves was pretty well shown to me to be the best business decision one could make.</p><p>A great dairyman/businessman and one of the finest people I've ever known. He's been dead for many years and I still miss talking to him, but everyday he has some impact on how we do things and help that we provide to others.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 24547, member: 34"] One part of your response reaaly struck a chord with me. "treated no different than my keepers". My old mentor was a dairyman, he used an ANgus or Hereford bull on his heifers. All the cross calves I hauled to the salebran for him, except for the half that I kept myself. Holstein bull calves sold for around 2-3 dollars, cross calf ehifers around 25-50, bulls 75-100. Holstein heifers were never sold unless it had to be pulled or were twins. None freemartins were alwasy kept for table beef. Every calf born was treated exactly the same. Scour boluses as soon as they were brought up, 3 full days (6 feedings) of cholstrum, no calf shipped until it was at least 7 days old. Tjose were his standards and he maintaned them. Obviously the $2 calves were barely a break even while the others were profit makeers. I never hauled a known sickly calf to the sale barn. After a couple of months, folks would line up at the unloading gate and write down the numbers of the calves I was dropping off. Wasn't long and Holstein bulls were around 25-35 bucks and the cross calves had almost doubled. A reputation for quality, healthy calves was pretty well shown to me to be the best business decision one could make. A great dairyman/businessman and one of the finest people I've ever known. He's been dead for many years and I still miss talking to him, but everyday he has some impact on how we do things and help that we provide to others. dun [/QUOTE]
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