Too many people buy into the myth of profiting on cheap corn by feeding it out. They don't do their math right. Corn looks like the important element in feeding because you use such a large volume. If you put pencil to paper your corn is actually not your big expense. I've mostly fed Holstein bulls bought at a week old and marketed as corn fed red veal at 700 lbs. I remember working the numbers in the 90's and realizing I could feed 8.00 corn then on a zero roughage diet. Feeder cost,protein cost and death loss are the more important costs.
For rough figures I used to expect to feed one bag each of milk replacer and sweetened calf starter,along with 2200 lbs of corn and 450-500 lbs of protein supplement. When I ran the numbers I was always working against the price of supplement and milk powder and death loss. Corn and that "expensive" calf starter were really much smaller expenses than they were assumed to be.
I never fed a lot of heavy cattle but I do know that buying feeders as with bottle calves is not the place to cheap out either. My experience has shown consistently that the right calf bought right is a good calf. Lower quality calves at bargain prices are better left at the salesbarn. They will be expensive calves before you are done with them.
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