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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 898487" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Sounds like you have the perfect setup. A friend of mine was considering the same but instead went to raising replacement dairy calves. Its been a while but what we did was try and turn 3 groups of cattle each year. We'd buy 3 weights with a dollar cap on them. Put them in a pen with good grass and good feed and watch them closely and medicate as needed. Used creep feeders to supplement but kept the feed cost to less than $0.72/day. Never had too much trouble other than once had a bad pinkeye problem that was just a royal pain in the butt to turn around. Here the gains during the summer are poor due to the heat and humidity so normally downsized during the summer months. Also learned not to get calves in the month of September. Bad dusty and lots of pneumonia. Maybe different where you are but that's just something I noticed. Good luck with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 898487, member: 4362"] Sounds like you have the perfect setup. A friend of mine was considering the same but instead went to raising replacement dairy calves. Its been a while but what we did was try and turn 3 groups of cattle each year. We'd buy 3 weights with a dollar cap on them. Put them in a pen with good grass and good feed and watch them closely and medicate as needed. Used creep feeders to supplement but kept the feed cost to less than $0.72/day. Never had too much trouble other than once had a bad pinkeye problem that was just a royal pain in the butt to turn around. Here the gains during the summer are poor due to the heat and humidity so normally downsized during the summer months. Also learned not to get calves in the month of September. Bad dusty and lots of pneumonia. Maybe different where you are but that's just something I noticed. Good luck with it. [/QUOTE]
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