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<blockquote data-quote="CG1" data-source="post: 1597010" data-attributes="member: 38577"><p>I once built a herd from auction cattle, didn't end well. I had 10 total, 5 got pregnant, 3 calves died, 2 born healthy. One of my heifers even had an issue where she had no holes in her teats. I ended up having to raise that calf on a bottle. A few more experiments later I decided to buy 10 dairy mix heifer calves from the local dairies. They are all Angus X Holstein, paid $80 each for them. I picked 6 of them after wean and raised them up and bred them just last year. They all calved exactly 9-10 months after they were in with the bull. I still have 1 of the cows that I bought from the sale barn in my herd and she gives me a calf every 11 months, exactly to the day this year. </p><p></p><p>We don't send our cows to auction anymore but when we did I only sold the ones there that I couldn't sell privately. So for that reason I no longer go to buy from the auction. I would though buy an orphan heifer calf from the sale barn and raise it for breeding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CG1, post: 1597010, member: 38577"] I once built a herd from auction cattle, didn't end well. I had 10 total, 5 got pregnant, 3 calves died, 2 born healthy. One of my heifers even had an issue where she had no holes in her teats. I ended up having to raise that calf on a bottle. A few more experiments later I decided to buy 10 dairy mix heifer calves from the local dairies. They are all Angus X Holstein, paid $80 each for them. I picked 6 of them after wean and raised them up and bred them just last year. They all calved exactly 9-10 months after they were in with the bull. I still have 1 of the cows that I bought from the sale barn in my herd and she gives me a calf every 11 months, exactly to the day this year. We don't send our cows to auction anymore but when we did I only sold the ones there that I couldn't sell privately. So for that reason I no longer go to buy from the auction. I would though buy an orphan heifer calf from the sale barn and raise it for breeding. [/QUOTE]
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