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<blockquote data-quote="Logan52" data-source="post: 1637039" data-attributes="member: 32879"><p>2015 was the hay-day for nurse cow operations here in central Kentucky. Calves were easy to obtain and still relatively affordable. Buyers would run bids high on almost calf weighing 400 pounds or so. A three quartered Jersey could easily raise 4 calves to this weight if given good care. Do the math with calves around $2 a pound. It was time consuming but worked for some willing to do it right.</p><p>The price of baby calves went up in response. As the market for feeders and stockers dropped the buyers became more discriminating against dairy cross calves. All of a sudden, this was not as good an enterprise as it had been. Nurse cows got cheap and baby calf prices (especially dairy cross) came down as a result.</p><p>All this to say the time is not ideal for a nurse cow operation. If feed and dairy cow prices stay low, who knows? it might work again in the future.</p><p>I dabbled in this but the aggravation and scouring calves made me glad to get out, Also, the Jerseys would really get pushed around by my beef cows when they were together. Pushed away from the feed, they could get thinner than I liked to see them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Logan52, post: 1637039, member: 32879"] 2015 was the hay-day for nurse cow operations here in central Kentucky. Calves were easy to obtain and still relatively affordable. Buyers would run bids high on almost calf weighing 400 pounds or so. A three quartered Jersey could easily raise 4 calves to this weight if given good care. Do the math with calves around $2 a pound. It was time consuming but worked for some willing to do it right. The price of baby calves went up in response. As the market for feeders and stockers dropped the buyers became more discriminating against dairy cross calves. All of a sudden, this was not as good an enterprise as it had been. Nurse cows got cheap and baby calf prices (especially dairy cross) came down as a result. All this to say the time is not ideal for a nurse cow operation. If feed and dairy cow prices stay low, who knows? it might work again in the future. I dabbled in this but the aggravation and scouring calves made me glad to get out, Also, the Jerseys would really get pushed around by my beef cows when they were together. Pushed away from the feed, they could get thinner than I liked to see them. [/QUOTE]
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