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<blockquote data-quote="shortybreeder" data-source="post: 1198185" data-attributes="member: 21626"><p>If I were in the market for buying feeder calves to raise I would be picking up all of those chrome shorthorn calves... I had a bull calf last year out of Creole 135 and he was really fancy with all of his chrome and I knew he'd get beat up if I sold him at the salesbarn so I raised him myself and I don't regret it one bit... He was born July 12, weighed him February 1st at 600 pounds (adj 205 of 677), put him on a grain diet in the old barn (weighed his feed morning and night at ~2.5% body weight with free choice hay) and when we took him to county weigh-in on August 5th he weighed 1290... That's 690 pounds of gain in 185 days, or 3.73 pounds per day average gain... I will also confess there were a couple days I missed his morning feeding because I ran out of time before school... He got Grand Champion Rate of Gain in a county well known for producing high performance cattle. The year before the Champion Rate of Gain was also a chromed up shorthorn that averaged almost 4lbs/day. I believe the buyers just use the chrome as an excuse to save some money up front and increase profits down the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortybreeder, post: 1198185, member: 21626"] If I were in the market for buying feeder calves to raise I would be picking up all of those chrome shorthorn calves... I had a bull calf last year out of Creole 135 and he was really fancy with all of his chrome and I knew he'd get beat up if I sold him at the salesbarn so I raised him myself and I don't regret it one bit... He was born July 12, weighed him February 1st at 600 pounds (adj 205 of 677), put him on a grain diet in the old barn (weighed his feed morning and night at ~2.5% body weight with free choice hay) and when we took him to county weigh-in on August 5th he weighed 1290... That's 690 pounds of gain in 185 days, or 3.73 pounds per day average gain... I will also confess there were a couple days I missed his morning feeding because I ran out of time before school... He got Grand Champion Rate of Gain in a county well known for producing high performance cattle. The year before the Champion Rate of Gain was also a chromed up shorthorn that averaged almost 4lbs/day. I believe the buyers just use the chrome as an excuse to save some money up front and increase profits down the road. [/QUOTE]
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