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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 924740" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>I wouldn't go to the trouble. I'd wean them to keep them from balling their heads off at the sale and lose weight but other than that I'd just sell them. I don't know where you are in Georgia but around here you will spend a lot of time and money for nothing if you pre-condition them. Buyers here will dock you for having fat calves because they want to group them themselves and ship them to backgrounders. While there is nothing wrong with your numbers you just don't have enough to get a premium for your efforts if you pre-condition them. If you could group them with some like cattle and get around 80 head together it would be a completely different story. I wouldn't waste my time or money on this cause every dime you spend extra is just coming off what you could have made. Of course, if you have plenty of food for them and its not going to cost you anything you could put as much weight on them as you can but this extra weight isn't going to amount to much money with the pricing system the way it is. JMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 924740, member: 4362"] I wouldn't go to the trouble. I'd wean them to keep them from balling their heads off at the sale and lose weight but other than that I'd just sell them. I don't know where you are in Georgia but around here you will spend a lot of time and money for nothing if you pre-condition them. Buyers here will dock you for having fat calves because they want to group them themselves and ship them to backgrounders. While there is nothing wrong with your numbers you just don't have enough to get a premium for your efforts if you pre-condition them. If you could group them with some like cattle and get around 80 head together it would be a completely different story. I wouldn't waste my time or money on this cause every dime you spend extra is just coming off what you could have made. Of course, if you have plenty of food for them and its not going to cost you anything you could put as much weight on them as you can but this extra weight isn't going to amount to much money with the pricing system the way it is. JMO [/QUOTE]
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