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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1840659" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>[USER=14161]@gcreekrch[/USER] ; Agree on the costs of weaning and vaccs etc... we are getting a bit more here for them... maybe not $.25, sometimes more... when they are advertised as weaned and vacc... there are times we don't wean and all that... they get trailer weaned.</p><p></p><p> And we may very well sell some that are trailer weaned, sooner rather than later, with the prices the way they are. Calves here at the local sale on Friday, 2/02.... all the way up to 7 wt calves, there were ranges of 2.50 to 3.25... and lighter weights were a little higher in some cases. Have some bigger calves coming off cows in another week... and they may go right on the trailer and to the sale........ and NO , they will NOT be falsely advertised as weaned... even though many of the cows are pushing 7 months bred, and many of them look like they have dried up now.......since they were in a group with different sized calves that we wanted to get back to a more uniform calving time frame and group. So we will be pulling calves off, since these cows will be in the 5 -7 month bred range... due mostly in April/May which is better than the Feb through August that these were, all over the place...Some are bought cows, some are ours... and we had all sorts of grass at this place so moved anyone out there we could get off the home farm and some were exposed to the bull when they had small calves on them....some had bigger calves.... hoping to back some up from summer to spring... and get back to a 60-75 day calving window...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1840659, member: 25884"] [USER=14161]@gcreekrch[/USER] ; Agree on the costs of weaning and vaccs etc... we are getting a bit more here for them... maybe not $.25, sometimes more... when they are advertised as weaned and vacc... there are times we don't wean and all that... they get trailer weaned. And we may very well sell some that are trailer weaned, sooner rather than later, with the prices the way they are. Calves here at the local sale on Friday, 2/02.... all the way up to 7 wt calves, there were ranges of 2.50 to 3.25... and lighter weights were a little higher in some cases. Have some bigger calves coming off cows in another week... and they may go right on the trailer and to the sale........ and NO , they will NOT be falsely advertised as weaned... even though many of the cows are pushing 7 months bred, and many of them look like they have dried up now.......since they were in a group with different sized calves that we wanted to get back to a more uniform calving time frame and group. So we will be pulling calves off, since these cows will be in the 5 -7 month bred range... due mostly in April/May which is better than the Feb through August that these were, all over the place...Some are bought cows, some are ours... and we had all sorts of grass at this place so moved anyone out there we could get off the home farm and some were exposed to the bull when they had small calves on them....some had bigger calves.... hoping to back some up from summer to spring... and get back to a 60-75 day calving window... [/QUOTE]
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