Posted by JD Seller on March 05, 2017 at 11:12:49 from (208.126.196.24):
The feed/fat Holstein market dropped like a rock around here after Tyson quit buying Holstein cattle. Monday's market showed this is spades. Beef breeds $1.22-1.28 per pound. Holsteins fat cattle $.82-.87 per pound. WOW The funny thing is bottle calves are still bringing $100-175 per head for 100 LBS calves. There are several LARGE Holstein feeders around me and they are HURTING bad!!!
Then you have fellows that just hit bad luck. Good friend has been feeding Holstein calves out for years. Smaller operator usually 50-80 head total. He bought a group of fifty 300-400 lbs. calves last year they are just now finishing. The death loss started after few weeks and never stopped. The vets from two different practices tried and could never figure out what was going on. He had multiple calves posted with not results. Long story short we will be hauling the finished calves to market in the morning. One load, 13 calves is all that made it to market weight!!!! Figure the lost out on that pen!!! 74% death loss. Many of the calves made it up until 900-1000 lbs. too. All we could come up with is we think the calves never got much if any colostrum. So the whole group had few defenses to any type of bugs or stress.
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