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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1794991" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>Yeah, it would take a while to pay for herself for sure. Short term I'm just glad I don't have to wash bottles, and buy more calf milk. </p><p>I used to have 3-4 calves on a cow at a time and wean them of in around 3 months and start another round on the cows. With these I'll just let her raise them. </p><p>When I first started buying dairy calves years ago, they had just started to have some value, the first ones I paid $25 for the folks said not long before they had just been giving calves away.</p><p>At first I passed on some chances to get heifer calves cause I didn't understand the dairy business and thought they were worth less than bull calves, because that's what I had seen at the local stockyards. Finally, got in with a dairy getting all of their calves and selling most of the heifers back to them around breeding size. </p><p>Towards the last heifers got to $500 for 3 day old calf. Sometimes more than that on the market. </p><p>I paid $1400 back then for a Jersey heifer around a year old at a dairy auction. She was my best cow, and we were AI breeding our Jerseys to Jersey bulls, I had 3 generations counting her.</p><p>Had a Angus Holstein crosses that I raised and kept for nurse cows too.</p><p>Both the dairy farms that I got calves from stopped milking and I just quit cause it was hard to find a steady supply of good healthy calves on the market.</p><p>Used to be 200 or more calves at sone stockyards back then, now there's hardly any, other than an occasional beef calf.</p><p>When we were in Oklahoma a couple years ago we went to the local stockyards there one day, they had several Jersey calves selling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1794991, member: 24816"] Yeah, it would take a while to pay for herself for sure. Short term I’m just glad I don’t have to wash bottles, and buy more calf milk. I used to have 3-4 calves on a cow at a time and wean them of in around 3 months and start another round on the cows. With these I’ll just let her raise them. When I first started buying dairy calves years ago, they had just started to have some value, the first ones I paid $25 for the folks said not long before they had just been giving calves away. At first I passed on some chances to get heifer calves cause I didn’t understand the dairy business and thought they were worth less than bull calves, because that’s what I had seen at the local stockyards. Finally, got in with a dairy getting all of their calves and selling most of the heifers back to them around breeding size. Towards the last heifers got to $500 for 3 day old calf. Sometimes more than that on the market. I paid $1400 back then for a Jersey heifer around a year old at a dairy auction. She was my best cow, and we were AI breeding our Jerseys to Jersey bulls, I had 3 generations counting her. Had a Angus Holstein crosses that I raised and kept for nurse cows too. Both the dairy farms that I got calves from stopped milking and I just quit cause it was hard to find a steady supply of good healthy calves on the market. Used to be 200 or more calves at sone stockyards back then, now there’s hardly any, other than an occasional beef calf. When we were in Oklahoma a couple years ago we went to the local stockyards there one day, they had several Jersey calves selling. [/QUOTE]
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