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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 821670" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>In Wisconsin you can buy decent beef cattle (not dairy) mixed hay (15% protein, 50% TDN, 92 RFV - Dry basis from my fall 2010 hay test) for $60-70 per 1500 lb 5x6 ft round bale. This is a moist climate. This is not true everywhere I am sure. </p><p></p><p>As far as labor goes, how long does it take and how many hours per head to put a 1500 lb round bale in a hay feed ring once a week or so along with put a barrel of mineralyx out once a month or so??? I don't think labor is a significant cost for that additional 45 days (assumes you already have the facility and land cost included earlier - just adding 45 days)</p><p></p><p>In the upper midwest I think it will probably pay to wean them for 45 days and vac especially with a premium on the price. Personally I would also feel better about selling fenceline weaned, vaccinated, bunk broke calves then ripping them off the cow and onto a truck, if I sold calves which I do not.</p><p></p><p>More importantly I think a good, quality-oriented buyer will appreciate calves like this on the other end of the sale. Buyers of calves destined for Wal-Mart probably don't care. Many other buyers might.</p><p></p><p>But this is jmho.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p><p></p><p>edit: I think fenceline weaning leads to less stress and less loss of gain which also contributes to profitability of holding them another 45 days. Changes in the market between weaning and 45 days later are obviously out of our immediate control. I don't have any concrete numbers but would think prices would typically be higher in January than in November when everyone else is selling calves off of the cow??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 821670, member: 7509"] In Wisconsin you can buy decent beef cattle (not dairy) mixed hay (15% protein, 50% TDN, 92 RFV - Dry basis from my fall 2010 hay test) for $60-70 per 1500 lb 5x6 ft round bale. This is a moist climate. This is not true everywhere I am sure. As far as labor goes, how long does it take and how many hours per head to put a 1500 lb round bale in a hay feed ring once a week or so along with put a barrel of mineralyx out once a month or so??? I don't think labor is a significant cost for that additional 45 days (assumes you already have the facility and land cost included earlier - just adding 45 days) In the upper midwest I think it will probably pay to wean them for 45 days and vac especially with a premium on the price. Personally I would also feel better about selling fenceline weaned, vaccinated, bunk broke calves then ripping them off the cow and onto a truck, if I sold calves which I do not. More importantly I think a good, quality-oriented buyer will appreciate calves like this on the other end of the sale. Buyers of calves destined for Wal-Mart probably don't care. Many other buyers might. But this is jmho. Jim edit: I think fenceline weaning leads to less stress and less loss of gain which also contributes to profitability of holding them another 45 days. Changes in the market between weaning and 45 days later are obviously out of our immediate control. I don't have any concrete numbers but would think prices would typically be higher in January than in November when everyone else is selling calves off of the cow?? [/QUOTE]
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