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Only Dairy Calves bought still bottle fed?
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<blockquote data-quote="spinandslide" data-source="post: 803256" data-attributes="member: 5559"><p>I agree with chippie.</p><p></p><p>around here, you can buy, as has been stated, baby beef calves at the sale..orphan, twins or splits.</p><p></p><p>I bought a split off of a friend, who bought it at the sale to graft onto a cow he had...cow was wild as anything and wouldnt take the calf, he got fed up with bottle feeding it and I bought it from him. it wasnt to bad. she is now expecting her first calf..and even though she almost died as a youngster, she has turned into a very large, mature, good looking animal.</p><p></p><p>thing that annoys me..is you hear of a local guy who has an orphan that doesnt want to graft or bottlefeed it. you offer to buy it, at a fair price..then they back out or try to get you to pay top of the line prices for the little moneypit..had this happened to me. guy moaned and groaned about having to feed an orphan or having to haul it to the sale and potentially take a loss..I told him Id buy it from him for $150.."average" for our salebarn. Then he backtracks and starts saying he's seen the baby beefs go as high as $300..told him good luck and to take it to the sale. I wont shell out that kinda money for a baby beef calf...IMO, the risk is to high of them getting ill to spend that kind of money on them.</p><p></p><p>Guy ended up only getting a $150 or $175 bid at the salebarn too..idgit..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spinandslide, post: 803256, member: 5559"] I agree with chippie. around here, you can buy, as has been stated, baby beef calves at the sale..orphan, twins or splits. I bought a split off of a friend, who bought it at the sale to graft onto a cow he had...cow was wild as anything and wouldnt take the calf, he got fed up with bottle feeding it and I bought it from him. it wasnt to bad. she is now expecting her first calf..and even though she almost died as a youngster, she has turned into a very large, mature, good looking animal. thing that annoys me..is you hear of a local guy who has an orphan that doesnt want to graft or bottlefeed it. you offer to buy it, at a fair price..then they back out or try to get you to pay top of the line prices for the little moneypit..had this happened to me. guy moaned and groaned about having to feed an orphan or having to haul it to the sale and potentially take a loss..I told him Id buy it from him for $150.."average" for our salebarn. Then he backtracks and starts saying he's seen the baby beefs go as high as $300..told him good luck and to take it to the sale. I wont shell out that kinda money for a baby beef calf...IMO, the risk is to high of them getting ill to spend that kind of money on them. Guy ended up only getting a $150 or $175 bid at the salebarn too..idgit.. [/QUOTE]
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