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<blockquote data-quote="TheLazyM" data-source="post: 857257" data-attributes="member: 3117"><p>Mark as you noticed culls do in fact sell at the sale. To understand why this is you simply answer the question what is a cull? Simplest answer is a cull is a animal cut from a producers herd that didn't meet "their" standards not "the standard". What producer may not want in his herd doesn't have anything to do w/ what you want in yours. At the steakhouse you don't know if your eating cull or not.</p><p> I do not share the thoughts that feeding through drought isn't cost effective. There's more to the story than that. Here in N.Al I get $550-$650 a calf ranging 450-550 lbs @ 6 months old. I figure 6 5x5 bales of hay per every 5 head a month. I give $25-$35 a bale.last winter was the worst winter I've ever had my total cost for hay through the winter came to $54 a head a month.once I figured my corn,soyhull pellets and tubs/blocksit came to $67 a month. So I easily clear $200 a calf. My thoughts on this the cow is already breed and is going to generate a harvest next year. If you sell her you have to buy breed/breed back to have a harvest next year. No harvest = no $.</p><p>How I make this work for me I sell at 6 months. I breed for Jan-feb calving. I sell durning the hay season. I buy my hay then out the field. This keeps buying needed hay from breaking my pockets. Then I make my decision what animals to keep when going into feeding times by the hay I have. If I don't have enough and can't get what I need I thin out to what I can. If I have or can get the hay I'll hold all my animals.</p><p> The best cost effective system is to buy good hay. There's no way around it. Cheap hay just isn't cost effective. Go ahead and find you a producer learn his forage look at his analysis and pay the $5-10 more a bale. It'll pay out by the end of the feeding season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLazyM, post: 857257, member: 3117"] Mark as you noticed culls do in fact sell at the sale. To understand why this is you simply answer the question what is a cull? Simplest answer is a cull is a animal cut from a producers herd that didn't meet "their" standards not "the standard". What producer may not want in his herd doesn't have anything to do w/ what you want in yours. At the steakhouse you don't know if your eating cull or not. I do not share the thoughts that feeding through drought isn't cost effective. There's more to the story than that. Here in N.Al I get $550-$650 a calf ranging 450-550 lbs @ 6 months old. I figure 6 5x5 bales of hay per every 5 head a month. I give $25-$35 a bale.last winter was the worst winter I've ever had my total cost for hay through the winter came to $54 a head a month.once I figured my corn,soyhull pellets and tubs/blocksit came to $67 a month. So I easily clear $200 a calf. My thoughts on this the cow is already breed and is going to generate a harvest next year. If you sell her you have to buy breed/breed back to have a harvest next year. No harvest = no $. How I make this work for me I sell at 6 months. I breed for Jan-feb calving. I sell durning the hay season. I buy my hay then out the field. This keeps buying needed hay from breaking my pockets. Then I make my decision what animals to keep when going into feeding times by the hay I have. If I don't have enough and can't get what I need I thin out to what I can. If I have or can get the hay I'll hold all my animals. The best cost effective system is to buy good hay. There's no way around it. Cheap hay just isn't cost effective. Go ahead and find you a producer learn his forage look at his analysis and pay the $5-10 more a bale. It'll pay out by the end of the feeding season. [/QUOTE]
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