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<blockquote data-quote="Engler" data-source="post: 405629" data-attributes="member: 4110"><p>It's all relative to your cost of gain.</p><p></p><p>If a 500# is worth $1.30 a pound he's worth $650. </p><p></p><p>If we feed him for 90 days if we've got feed and sell him at 700# and he brings $1.15 a pound then he's worth $805.</p><p></p><p>Can you put on a pound of gain on for $0.31 with feed, labor, drugs, death loss, interest on your money that you would have had 3 months sooner, ect for that? If so, yes it works. If not, then no, sell them off the cow.</p><p></p><p>As to the question of do the feed lot like them, it's like every other question in agriculture-it depends. Little cattle have more profit potential per head because you can get those cheap gains at light weights. With big cattle you can turn your lot more often. The feeder is interested in how many $$ per head space per year, not per calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Engler, post: 405629, member: 4110"] It's all relative to your cost of gain. If a 500# is worth $1.30 a pound he's worth $650. If we feed him for 90 days if we've got feed and sell him at 700# and he brings $1.15 a pound then he's worth $805. Can you put on a pound of gain on for $0.31 with feed, labor, drugs, death loss, interest on your money that you would have had 3 months sooner, ect for that? If so, yes it works. If not, then no, sell them off the cow. As to the question of do the feed lot like them, it's like every other question in agriculture-it depends. Little cattle have more profit potential per head because you can get those cheap gains at light weights. With big cattle you can turn your lot more often. The feeder is interested in how many $$ per head space per year, not per calf. [/QUOTE]
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