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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 1042444" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I take them straight off the cow to the sales barn. I get prices just as good as the weaned calves, but without the the labor, the extra feed cost, medicine cost, death loss, etc. There may be other areas of the country where weaning pays, but not here. You do not say how you are selling your calves. If they are going to be sold by the pound and weaned tonight and not weighed until this weekend, they will lose alot of weight. When you wean, calves lose weight for awhile, then gain slowly, then start gaining faster. So, if you wean, they need a few weeks to get back where you started from. It can be less time when the calves are not getting much milk or more time when they are getting alot of milk. Fenceline weaning is less stressful, but they still lose weight, temporarily. Normally, buyers want calves to be weaned at least 60 days and have two rounds of shots to consider them as premium weaned calves. When there is a surplus of calves, weaning has a better chance of paying off. When the supply is tight, the demand causes the unweaned to bring as much as the weaned</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 1042444, member: 1150"] I take them straight off the cow to the sales barn. I get prices just as good as the weaned calves, but without the the labor, the extra feed cost, medicine cost, death loss, etc. There may be other areas of the country where weaning pays, but not here. You do not say how you are selling your calves. If they are going to be sold by the pound and weaned tonight and not weighed until this weekend, they will lose alot of weight. When you wean, calves lose weight for awhile, then gain slowly, then start gaining faster. So, if you wean, they need a few weeks to get back where you started from. It can be less time when the calves are not getting much milk or more time when they are getting alot of milk. Fenceline weaning is less stressful, but they still lose weight, temporarily. Normally, buyers want calves to be weaned at least 60 days and have two rounds of shots to consider them as premium weaned calves. When there is a surplus of calves, weaning has a better chance of paying off. When the supply is tight, the demand causes the unweaned to bring as much as the weaned [/QUOTE]
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