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<blockquote data-quote="darcelina4" data-source="post: 1646622" data-attributes="member: 27059"><p>I've bought lots of bottle calves at the salebarn. I've got some sick ones but I've got some really good ones too. I've not had a salebarn bityke calf die on me yet. I've lost some farm buy calves though. At the salebarn I prefer to buy calves split off old cows. I went a month ago to check out prices since I've been busy all summer and did not go. So early on a newborn heifer came in the ring. Solid black looked all beef. I got her for $75. I stayed another 4 hours waiting for the pairs. Their was a newborn red heifer on a 3 year old cripple cow with a knocked off hip that I thought they would split. Nope. They sold as a pair. All of the calves they did split went for $275 to $450. My heifer seemed like a steal. I got her home and tried to graft her onto my jersey. The jersey I raised. She calves Feb. 29th first calf. She raised hers plus 2 more until the end of August. We milked her a week. She adopted that new baby so easy. 2 days they were good. They lay cuddled together. So the next week I got her a farm buy heifer. A Charolais/corriente. 2 weeks later and she has accepted her and let's her nurse unassisted but she isn't cuddly with this one. My $75 heifer looks great. Filling out nice. But she has turned feral. The corriente loves me and the black looks at me like I'm going to eat her. She needs to get nice or I will eat her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darcelina4, post: 1646622, member: 27059"] I've bought lots of bottle calves at the salebarn. I've got some sick ones but I've got some really good ones too. I've not had a salebarn bityke calf die on me yet. I've lost some farm buy calves though. At the salebarn I prefer to buy calves split off old cows. I went a month ago to check out prices since I've been busy all summer and did not go. So early on a newborn heifer came in the ring. Solid black looked all beef. I got her for $75. I stayed another 4 hours waiting for the pairs. Their was a newborn red heifer on a 3 year old cripple cow with a knocked off hip that I thought they would split. Nope. They sold as a pair. All of the calves they did split went for $275 to $450. My heifer seemed like a steal. I got her home and tried to graft her onto my jersey. The jersey I raised. She calves Feb. 29th first calf. She raised hers plus 2 more until the end of August. We milked her a week. She adopted that new baby so easy. 2 days they were good. They lay cuddled together. So the next week I got her a farm buy heifer. A Charolais/corriente. 2 weeks later and she has accepted her and let's her nurse unassisted but she isn't cuddly with this one. My $75 heifer looks great. Filling out nice. But she has turned feral. The corriente loves me and the black looks at me like I'm going to eat her. She needs to get nice or I will eat her. [/QUOTE]
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