Price of newborn calves sold separate from mamas

[Farmgirl]

Any idea what newborn beef bull calves are selling for at SE Texas sale barns?

Thanks,
Farmgirl

 

[backhoeboogie]

Usually about $1.50 a pound. Mostly it depends on the sale barn and who's there. When they bring the cow through and no one bids on them as a pair, the ring man might offer a split. Look at the navel for signs of age on the calf. I like them one to two weeks old. I picked up a really nice heifer calf for $80 this year. Didn't want her and wasn't looking at the time. But for $80 I took her. When we got home I put her on the nurse cow and pulled one of the steers off of the cow. Sold that 5 week old steer at Cleburne for way more than he should have brought. That is how it is at auctions. If there's a dozen folks bidding, prices go high.

 

[milesvb]

While it's not a sale barn price, the few orphans/twins we've had were exchanged for a $100 bill from one of two individuals we know that seem to like raising bottle calves or grafting to a nurse cow.