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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm2" data-source="post: 407872" data-attributes="member: 2095"><p>The buyers like to buy cheap 'compensatory gains'. They will go ga ga (by the pound) over 450 lb framy, rangy calves that have been held back by drought, poor forage, and/or untreated worms. Most of those same calves would weigh 600 pounds IF raised under better conditions and management. Pounds sell and MOST of the time, a good fleshy well cared for 600 pound calf WILL bring more overall than their liteweight kin from the pine forest next door. For the times when the lean calves actually do bring MORE all you can really do is grit your teeth and hope that pneumonia or shipping fever strikes that load of thin calves before that buyer has a chance to get them resold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm2, post: 407872, member: 2095"] The buyers like to buy cheap 'compensatory gains'. They will go ga ga (by the pound) over 450 lb framy, rangy calves that have been held back by drought, poor forage, and/or untreated worms. Most of those same calves would weigh 600 pounds IF raised under better conditions and management. Pounds sell and MOST of the time, a good fleshy well cared for 600 pound calf WILL bring more overall than their liteweight kin from the pine forest next door. For the times when the lean calves actually do bring MORE all you can really do is grit your teeth and hope that pneumonia or shipping fever strikes that load of thin calves before that buyer has a chance to get them resold. [/QUOTE]
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