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<blockquote data-quote="BFE" data-source="post: 1736469" data-attributes="member: 28532"><p>I'm conditioning some calves now. Feeding baleage, shelled corn, and free choice protein blocks. I weighed them the day I started this program, will weigh again next week, and weigh at the sale in April. I'll figure all my corn cost at $7+ since that is local cash price now, when i started it was less than $6. It will be interesting to see what my cost of gain is. I've never weighed in before, just out, so it should give me a good idea of what I can do for the money.</p><p>I'm going to get some more bulk storage to handle enough soyhull pellets to make it worth the backhaul from the crusher. $7 corn translates to $250/ton, SH pellets are currently $215. I'm hoping the pellets will be a more versatile feed for me. I would like to use them for creep feed as well, since I'm moving to more fall calving due to the bull snafu of '20. I also hope it would be a better feed for developing heifers and bulls from my registered cows. I want breeding stock that's not been pushed too hard but has plenty of nutrition, and I'm hoping the pellets will give me the kind of supplementation to do that properly and be cost effective.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BFE, post: 1736469, member: 28532"] I'm conditioning some calves now. Feeding baleage, shelled corn, and free choice protein blocks. I weighed them the day I started this program, will weigh again next week, and weigh at the sale in April. I'll figure all my corn cost at $7+ since that is local cash price now, when i started it was less than $6. It will be interesting to see what my cost of gain is. I've never weighed in before, just out, so it should give me a good idea of what I can do for the money. I'm going to get some more bulk storage to handle enough soyhull pellets to make it worth the backhaul from the crusher. $7 corn translates to $250/ton, SH pellets are currently $215. I'm hoping the pellets will be a more versatile feed for me. I would like to use them for creep feed as well, since I'm moving to more fall calving due to the bull snafu of '20. I also hope it would be a better feed for developing heifers and bulls from my registered cows. I want breeding stock that's not been pushed too hard but has plenty of nutrition, and I'm hoping the pellets will give me the kind of supplementation to do that properly and be cost effective. [/QUOTE]
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