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Ran across an interesting concept this weekend. What is your opnions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1773341" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>15-20 years ago, I raised dairy calves mostly Holsteins. When I first started calves both bulls and heifers were practically worthless. Then got to where they were worth $200-300 at 3 day old bulls and heifers were $300-500. I had one dairy that I bought all their calves and sold the heifers back to them at around breeding time. </p><p>Honestly, I just spun my wheels on the steers, and did better selling heifers. </p><p>These Jersey and Swiss etc calves and crosses aren't going to sell as good as Holstein and Holstein crosses would.</p><p>Saw 2 pretty decent looking 500 some odd pound Brown Swiss steers sell last week for 50 cents a pound. Can't make anything on that cause them dairy calves take a world of feed. </p><p>I don't understand the particulars of the deal they been offered but it don't sound to promising to me for the folks that would be raising the calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1773341, member: 24816"] 15-20 years ago, I raised dairy calves mostly Holsteins. When I first started calves both bulls and heifers were practically worthless. Then got to where they were worth $200-300 at 3 day old bulls and heifers were $300-500. I had one dairy that I bought all their calves and sold the heifers back to them at around breeding time. Honestly, I just spun my wheels on the steers, and did better selling heifers. These Jersey and Swiss etc calves and crosses aren’t going to sell as good as Holstein and Holstein crosses would. Saw 2 pretty decent looking 500 some odd pound Brown Swiss steers sell last week for 50 cents a pound. Can’t make anything on that cause them dairy calves take a world of feed. I don’t understand the particulars of the deal they been offered but it don’t sound to promising to me for the folks that would be raising the calves. [/QUOTE]
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