Okay, I get that you are just pulling them and shipping. We have done that many times, and we wean and hold 30-60 days othertimes. We leave the cows with the calves in the barn lot and sort at 4-5 a.m. and run the calves on the trailer and off they go. Don't usually pull them real small, mostly it is time to wean anyway and so sometimes we wean and hold, sometimes trailer wean and sell. But we don't take them away from the cows until the "minute" they get on the trailer so they are not overly upset, and the mommas aren't either. Yep, the cows will holler at the barn later, but they seem to get over it much faster when the calves are no where in the area. We will leave the cows in the small field next to the barn for about 2-3 days, just too make sure no one is going crazy looking for their calf.... then move them out to pasture where they will calve again.
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@Dave , they would be worth 1.50's + here. But who knows with the weather warming up and spring/grass fever... they might go up. That is why it is not profitable for us to keep calves past the 450-500 wt range... when they are bringing 1.60-2.00 lb.... if you pull them off, the cows get a longer break and back into better shape and we can run a couple more cows in the group, so ultimately a little more income overall. I wish they would pay good for 5-7 wts.... be alot easier to just leave calves until they are heavier, pull, sell, and the cow calves again in 2 months.... harder on her though. We just don't get that kind of growth here either, due to heat and humidity, and flies.... even the red poll cattle that graze in the hotter part of the day will go find some relief from the flies.... and we don't have near the flies that I have seen some places. But I attribute that to the DE in the mineral.
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