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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1810486" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>My Dad bought me a day old Holstein bull calf to raise when I was 8 years old in 1959. I have owned cattle pretty much continually since them. At one point or another I have tried most every scenario there is. Presently I have been buying older bred cows. Calving them out and selling them at a later day. That later date is not 2 or 3 months. I want calves born in February and March. The cows leave in mid August before the kill cow market drops. Shipping the cows weans the calves. The calves get sold 45-60 days later before we have to start winter feeding. This has worked good for me but not one I would recommenced for a beginner. A lot of the success or failure in this program is in the buying. That takes some time to develop the eye for. What I did for years after that first bottle calf was to buy light yearlings in the late winter (before grass fever hits the market). Graze them over the spring and summer. Then finish them to slaughter in the fall. Sold halves and quarters of beef. This can be profitable and is one of the quickest turn around for your money. The idea of buying heifers, feed until old enough to breed, calf them out, and feed the calves for 18 months to sell as beef, I have never figured out how this pencils. There is a lot time between your first expense and the first money coming in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1810486, member: 498"] My Dad bought me a day old Holstein bull calf to raise when I was 8 years old in 1959. I have owned cattle pretty much continually since them. At one point or another I have tried most every scenario there is. Presently I have been buying older bred cows. Calving them out and selling them at a later day. That later date is not 2 or 3 months. I want calves born in February and March. The cows leave in mid August before the kill cow market drops. Shipping the cows weans the calves. The calves get sold 45-60 days later before we have to start winter feeding. This has worked good for me but not one I would recommenced for a beginner. A lot of the success or failure in this program is in the buying. That takes some time to develop the eye for. What I did for years after that first bottle calf was to buy light yearlings in the late winter (before grass fever hits the market). Graze them over the spring and summer. Then finish them to slaughter in the fall. Sold halves and quarters of beef. This can be profitable and is one of the quickest turn around for your money. The idea of buying heifers, feed until old enough to breed, calf them out, and feed the calves for 18 months to sell as beef, I have never figured out how this pencils. There is a lot time between your first expense and the first money coming in. [/QUOTE]
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