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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 382753" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>It's part of the dairy business... beef folks have their own areas of expertise; cow/calf, backgrounding, feedlot, slaughter. Dairy folks have their milking parlors and calf ranches. A lot of dairies, esp the larger ones, don't even raise their own calves. Some dairies have contracts to sell all their heifer calves to certain calf raisers, and then they buy their own calves back as springers, other dairies sell all their heifer calves and then buy replacements (springers) as needed at the dairy sales.</p><p></p><p>All some folks do is own/manage/work at heifer ranches where they take calves from day-old to springer. I do it too, just on a smaller scale. Eliminates the responsibility of calving them out, milking them, etc. Eliminates a lot of the risk too; springers this week went up to $2530, and if I were calving out an animal that's worth that kind of money I'd be a nervous wreck. LOL. I'll gladly let someone else deal with that. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 382753, member: 852"] It's part of the dairy business... beef folks have their own areas of expertise; cow/calf, backgrounding, feedlot, slaughter. Dairy folks have their milking parlors and calf ranches. A lot of dairies, esp the larger ones, don't even raise their own calves. Some dairies have contracts to sell all their heifer calves to certain calf raisers, and then they buy their own calves back as springers, other dairies sell all their heifer calves and then buy replacements (springers) as needed at the dairy sales. All some folks do is own/manage/work at heifer ranches where they take calves from day-old to springer. I do it too, just on a smaller scale. Eliminates the responsibility of calving them out, milking them, etc. Eliminates a lot of the risk too; springers this week went up to $2530, and if I were calving out an animal that's worth that kind of money I'd be a nervous wreck. LOL. I'll gladly let someone else deal with that. :P [/QUOTE]
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