For me, I like cows and calves. Its a question of what is the most limiting resource in your opertation. To me, labor is more limiting that capital. With cows, I've got a lot of money tied up in long term capital assets (cows). But, other than calving time, they take very little labor. I calve two groups, one spring and one fall. Then I may or may not background my calves.
With feeders, I see a lot of labor demands. Daily feeding, lots of watching for sick ones. It only takes one snotty nose to turn into a train wreck in a week. Then there is the market risk. If I was doing feeders I'd sure not do them in the summer. Historically, the market spread trends negative spring to fall.
I normally sell my fall calved calves at 8-10 months of age, right off the cow. Spring calves I try to carry through the winter on silage, sell the steers and keep the heifers for replacements. Then breed the heifers to calve first in the spring at around 20 months of age. Try to carry them forward to fall for calving again. My spring herd is mostly heifers and old cows that missed the fall season but managed to rebreed '1 more time' into spring.
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