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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1156308" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Our situation is different. We keep heifers when prices are down on weaning prices so some years we keep nothing. We'll keep if we have extra grass left. Sometimes we dont sell anything until the new year and hold back every calf. We never keep so many animals that we max out our grazing. We always keep land open for emergencies. </p><p>We've never bought any commercial heifers or cows, back in the 90s when the kids showed sims, simbras and angus....but then its only a hand full. Everything else we raised. We do not feed special. We'll feed them creep when we wean them for a few weeks, but then they go out in a secure pasture, graze, eat hay and occasionally if its really cold we'll throw out cubes. So our heifers wont cost us as much as someone who is making payments on their land, or is leasing and having to buy feed and hay. We breed them at 14 months and get a calf at 2...We've thrown around what it cost to raise them and its around 1100, some years more some years less.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1156308, member: 22072"] Our situation is different. We keep heifers when prices are down on weaning prices so some years we keep nothing. We'll keep if we have extra grass left. Sometimes we dont sell anything until the new year and hold back every calf. We never keep so many animals that we max out our grazing. We always keep land open for emergencies. We've never bought any commercial heifers or cows, back in the 90s when the kids showed sims, simbras and angus....but then its only a hand full. Everything else we raised. We do not feed special. We'll feed them creep when we wean them for a few weeks, but then they go out in a secure pasture, graze, eat hay and occasionally if its really cold we'll throw out cubes. So our heifers wont cost us as much as someone who is making payments on their land, or is leasing and having to buy feed and hay. We breed them at 14 months and get a calf at 2...We've thrown around what it cost to raise them and its around 1100, some years more some years less..... [/QUOTE]
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