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What is the diff between a 400 lb calf and a 600 lb?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ojp6" data-source="post: 1405093" data-attributes="member: 23608"><p>There are a lot of backrounders that would disagree with you. Especially on put together calves out of the southeast. Putting together 100 calves from several different owners and vaccinating them along with weaning them for 60+ days and getting them bunk broke can improve the death loss on a set of cattle by several percent vs just shipping those calves. </p><p></p><p>Anybody who has bought very many unweaned calves out of the southeast and shipped them has had a train wreck on a load with 15+% death loss at some point in there career. Buying backgrounded calves reduces the odds of that a lot. </p><p></p><p>In this current market a decent sized group of backgrounded calves are worth at least 8-10 cents more than the unweaned calves of the same weight, some are worth more than that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ojp6, post: 1405093, member: 23608"] There are a lot of backrounders that would disagree with you. Especially on put together calves out of the southeast. Putting together 100 calves from several different owners and vaccinating them along with weaning them for 60+ days and getting them bunk broke can improve the death loss on a set of cattle by several percent vs just shipping those calves. Anybody who has bought very many unweaned calves out of the southeast and shipped them has had a train wreck on a load with 15+% death loss at some point in there career. Buying backgrounded calves reduces the odds of that a lot. In this current market a decent sized group of backgrounded calves are worth at least 8-10 cents more than the unweaned calves of the same weight, some are worth more than that. [/QUOTE]
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