everybody needs to tweet president Trump every day this week. Google "faircattlemarkets" to learn more. And spread the word. We also went ahead and tagged sonny Perdue
Hard to find them. Most cow sales pull off the big calves and sale them separate.If you can find them, I'd say good middle age cows bred back with 350# calves on side should go for $1400 or so. You can check the USDA market report for Tennessee and see what bred cows are bringing then figure...
I don't see how some of you stay in business at the costs you're quoting on here. My limit on grass costs is $100 per pair plus bush hog yearly. I have one place where the rent consumes the full $100, but my landlord understand I won't be fertilizing or spraying. Most of my places I get for...
I was told Sometimes when they preg check at the sale it will cause this. Lasts a few days. I've only noticed it in thinner cows but not sure if that may have only been coincidence
I have been a die hard AM 650 wsm listener for about 20 years since the other stations all went "new country". But now even wsm has let me down. I now listen mainly to pandora , Daryl Singletary radio most of the time. There is a pretty good country station in Decatur, AL. If you can pick it up.
Problems with vigor? No. Growth? Yes.
Seems to me the smaller calves are up and going quicker. We seem to have more trouble with the big calves getting up and sucking soon enough in bad weather, but the smaller ones never wean off as heavy as the larger born calves.
There has to be balance...
Like several have said on here, we always go ahead and pull when seeing back feet. But it always seems to be so easy, makes me wonder if they actually needed pulled, and how many may come backwards that we never know about.
I like Charolais but with beef master cows I would think you will get some odd colored calves. Never done it so I don't know. For black calves, There are plenty of terminal angus out there and they are usually cheap. Most people won't buy an angus bull with 4 or more birthweight.