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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 653474" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>What you all have said has made sense. And yes we know livestock = dead stock. I was just tired and looking at the glass half empty last night. But i still maintain that keeping or buying hiefers in this market does not pay. There is no way to make that cost back. At this time though. If calf prices rise, which hopefully they will since both countries herds have shrunk considerably, it might become more profitable to retain or buy hiefers.</p><p>We have not lost that many or had a bad season this year. We lost one that did not turn proper, head back, we lost the one the other night and had two abortions this year due to hay mold. Not really bad works out to 6.5% death loss so far, three left to calve.</p><p>We were lucky though. We caught the hay quality before we had lost to much cow conditioning due to poor hay. I think that feeding heavy barley in the last trimester might be the reason the hiefer bull has thrown such large calves. Catch 22 on that one though. Cold long hard winter, crap hay, had to add barley to regain some condition. Otherwise we would have had more calving troubles and weak calves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 653474, member: 6198"] What you all have said has made sense. And yes we know livestock = dead stock. I was just tired and looking at the glass half empty last night. But i still maintain that keeping or buying hiefers in this market does not pay. There is no way to make that cost back. At this time though. If calf prices rise, which hopefully they will since both countries herds have shrunk considerably, it might become more profitable to retain or buy hiefers. We have not lost that many or had a bad season this year. We lost one that did not turn proper, head back, we lost the one the other night and had two abortions this year due to hay mold. Not really bad works out to 6.5% death loss so far, three left to calve. We were lucky though. We caught the hay quality before we had lost to much cow conditioning due to poor hay. I think that feeding heavy barley in the last trimester might be the reason the hiefer bull has thrown such large calves. Catch 22 on that one though. Cold long hard winter, crap hay, had to add barley to regain some condition. Otherwise we would have had more calving troubles and weak calves. [/QUOTE]
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