Posted by samn40 on November 06, 2013 at 11:53:06 from (109.150.147.216):
In Reply to: Raising young calves posted by picassomcp on November 06, 2013 at 08:05:20:
I must say it is the same way over here in the UK. I used to raise about 80 Holstein heifer calves as replacements every year....I calved them at about 2 years old and kept about 25-30 of the best bred heifers as replacements for my own herd and sold the rest fresh calved. I made good money because I had good pedigree well bred stock, but the bull calves......one year our meal firm held an open day, I got talking to a few dairy farmers. they all wondered why I sold my bull calves for what ever I got (and counted it as a bonus)....that year I was getting about £20/head x 100 bull calves(this was a very bad price!) One guy also reared 100 bull calves from his herd, he sat quiet during the discussion. Afterwards he said quietly to me that I had made about £1000 more out of my calves that year than he had!! and I had no work! I can not speak for how it would work on your side of the Atlantic, but we have a lot of small farmers here that specialise in breeding pedigree beef cattle....small herds of 25-40 cattle. They get top prizes and prices for their reared bulls to run with suckler herds and they sell off a few of the heifers as breeders and keep the rest as replacements. they all seem to be making a nice comfortable living!!! Good luck with whatever you do, but do the maths first!.....Sam
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