Sniper338
Well-known member
Went to the auction yesterday. Went just to see what cattle like im wanting (black angus/brangus) were going for. They were consistantly higher. Steers are selling for more than heifers, which suprised me, but the feed lots/butchers were buying them up it looked like.
I played with numbers after that, looks like buying young calves raising them out on grass, then selling when they get to 650-800 lbs aint worth doing, there isnt a big profit in it, which i had thought may be profitable to do every year.
Bred cow calf pairs are still high enough itd take 3 years to break even (3 calves). Which these cows were all 6 to 8 years old.. so add 3 years to break even, you end up with 9-11 year old cows once you get your investment back. That seems to me like a fairly old cow to end up with, and not many calves left in her...?
I figured open heifers would take 2-3 years to break even on considering AI cost too.
Best senario i could find was bred heifers. Brake even in two years (2 calves). Then they still got years to go calving..
Take it all with a grain of salt, thats just playing with average numbers for right now. The market changes. Its all hypothetical. I figure playing the math helps make decisions to gamble on though.
Looks like im going to end up with registered black brangus. I got a buddy thats going to sell me some this year. Damn good looking cattle. So ill end up growing the herd from there. Probably get 3 or 4 heifers/bred heifers from him. He said 7 months before hes going to sell them.. So im looking at october. They are just starting to drop now.
Plan is to just end up using AI on them and breed up more good brangus for a few years. Then when i have enough cows, AI with lbw hereford genes and throw super baldies.
Whats yalls opinions on this basic plan?
I played with numbers after that, looks like buying young calves raising them out on grass, then selling when they get to 650-800 lbs aint worth doing, there isnt a big profit in it, which i had thought may be profitable to do every year.
Bred cow calf pairs are still high enough itd take 3 years to break even (3 calves). Which these cows were all 6 to 8 years old.. so add 3 years to break even, you end up with 9-11 year old cows once you get your investment back. That seems to me like a fairly old cow to end up with, and not many calves left in her...?
I figured open heifers would take 2-3 years to break even on considering AI cost too.
Best senario i could find was bred heifers. Brake even in two years (2 calves). Then they still got years to go calving..
Take it all with a grain of salt, thats just playing with average numbers for right now. The market changes. Its all hypothetical. I figure playing the math helps make decisions to gamble on though.
Looks like im going to end up with registered black brangus. I got a buddy thats going to sell me some this year. Damn good looking cattle. So ill end up growing the herd from there. Probably get 3 or 4 heifers/bred heifers from him. He said 7 months before hes going to sell them.. So im looking at october. They are just starting to drop now.
Plan is to just end up using AI on them and breed up more good brangus for a few years. Then when i have enough cows, AI with lbw hereford genes and throw super baldies.
Whats yalls opinions on this basic plan?