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<blockquote data-quote="plumber_greg" data-source="post: 1176702" data-attributes="member: 9115"><p>Weaned calves yesterday. Friend came by, asked what I thought they would weigh? Told him now about 450 to 500, would wean in the 6 range on the steers. He said, "I thought you were weaning them now?"</p><p>Got us to talking, when do you weigh your calves for their weaning weight? I consider my weaning weight the weight they are AFTER they have been worked, preconditioned for 30-60 days, hauled 40 miles on a trailer and then stand around all night waiting to be sold the next day.</p><p></p><p>To calmly bring a cow and a calf up from the pasture and weigh the calf really tells me nothing. I want to know the weight the calves are when they are sold. A calf still on the cow, weighed and then sent to the sale barn seneranio , will lose 75 or more pounds before it sells. Doesn't make those 600lb weaning weights mean much does it?</p><p></p><p>Had another friend tell me one time that preconditioning doesn't pay. He sorted out his calves, weighed them on the farm, then kept track of every penny he spent preconditioning them for 45 days. THEN they went to the sale barn to be weighed the next day, and he said they only gained 30 lbs, no way was he doing that again, he lost money. That was a few years ago and he still weans on the trailer.</p><p></p><p>When do you guys with the big weaning weights weigh them and adjust for the 205 day weight? Do you base your decisions on a weight of a full calf, just off the pasture? Or does the thing that matters most is the pay weight, and you make culling decisions off that?</p><p></p><p>Remember your calving ease bulls calves grow more and faster the longer you keep them. Just look at the difference at 250lb on those calves and what they weigh a month later. Thanks for reading gs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="plumber_greg, post: 1176702, member: 9115"] Weaned calves yesterday. Friend came by, asked what I thought they would weigh? Told him now about 450 to 500, would wean in the 6 range on the steers. He said, "I thought you were weaning them now?" Got us to talking, when do you weigh your calves for their weaning weight? I consider my weaning weight the weight they are AFTER they have been worked, preconditioned for 30-60 days, hauled 40 miles on a trailer and then stand around all night waiting to be sold the next day. To calmly bring a cow and a calf up from the pasture and weigh the calf really tells me nothing. I want to know the weight the calves are when they are sold. A calf still on the cow, weighed and then sent to the sale barn seneranio , will lose 75 or more pounds before it sells. Doesn't make those 600lb weaning weights mean much does it? Had another friend tell me one time that preconditioning doesn't pay. He sorted out his calves, weighed them on the farm, then kept track of every penny he spent preconditioning them for 45 days. THEN they went to the sale barn to be weighed the next day, and he said they only gained 30 lbs, no way was he doing that again, he lost money. That was a few years ago and he still weans on the trailer. When do you guys with the big weaning weights weigh them and adjust for the 205 day weight? Do you base your decisions on a weight of a full calf, just off the pasture? Or does the thing that matters most is the pay weight, and you make culling decisions off that? Remember your calving ease bulls calves grow more and faster the longer you keep them. Just look at the difference at 250lb on those calves and what they weigh a month later. Thanks for reading gs [/QUOTE]
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