I bought 23 on Tuesday.....My Supreme Mixer is going and I am back into feeding....I have a good source of frozen corn grader waste and my friend and I are back in the feeding business..Small scale (We'll do 300 or so), but I am in....
I paid about $94/cwt for 500-600 pound calves, mostly groups of 3-5...Those 19 at this wt were maybe the best saleyard calves I have ever bought..Funny how you can get aggressive if feed is priced right...
The other 4 were my Average droppers, LOL...450 lbs at $70.00/cwt....They were traveled and maybe weak looking...They looked tons better with hay in them. I will leave them on mineral and hay for a couple of weeks before processing them....
The 19 I dropped off at a Working owhorse trainers. He will feed them hay for 30-45 days. That will get them to 650 or so pounds and I'll take them back. The 4 will get stronger and then in 3 weeks go with 15 other lighter calves to the Cowhorse fellows...
I have been pretty busy getting the place we bought, equipment we bought and cattle lined out. It has to be low labor with my traveling and my partner having a full time job......But I think it will work.
The Tractor we bought is a John Deere 4230 with a EZE Load Bucket...The tilt on the bucket is not so good, we are having the guy from the dealership pressure test it at different points to find restriction. The Hose fittings on the Supreme for the discharge conveyor keep popppin out.. New fittings by the dealer as they knew it was a marginal fit. Then the Digital scale readout went out, they will have to send that in....That and getting feedbunks setup and water setup and training my partner, LOL.....It is funny, he is starting to listen to me on the little things aftr a couple have resulted in three hours work on his part cause he didn't take 5 minutes to do the little thing.....
Anyways, I have been busy and away...
BTW, Direct Beef sales are good....5 customers this week, mostly 10-20 pound packs, but it is a great start,
I will get pictures soon,
PPRM
I paid about $94/cwt for 500-600 pound calves, mostly groups of 3-5...Those 19 at this wt were maybe the best saleyard calves I have ever bought..Funny how you can get aggressive if feed is priced right...
The other 4 were my Average droppers, LOL...450 lbs at $70.00/cwt....They were traveled and maybe weak looking...They looked tons better with hay in them. I will leave them on mineral and hay for a couple of weeks before processing them....
The 19 I dropped off at a Working owhorse trainers. He will feed them hay for 30-45 days. That will get them to 650 or so pounds and I'll take them back. The 4 will get stronger and then in 3 weeks go with 15 other lighter calves to the Cowhorse fellows...
I have been pretty busy getting the place we bought, equipment we bought and cattle lined out. It has to be low labor with my traveling and my partner having a full time job......But I think it will work.
The Tractor we bought is a John Deere 4230 with a EZE Load Bucket...The tilt on the bucket is not so good, we are having the guy from the dealership pressure test it at different points to find restriction. The Hose fittings on the Supreme for the discharge conveyor keep popppin out.. New fittings by the dealer as they knew it was a marginal fit. Then the Digital scale readout went out, they will have to send that in....That and getting feedbunks setup and water setup and training my partner, LOL.....It is funny, he is starting to listen to me on the little things aftr a couple have resulted in three hours work on his part cause he didn't take 5 minutes to do the little thing.....
Anyways, I have been busy and away...
BTW, Direct Beef sales are good....5 customers this week, mostly 10-20 pound packs, but it is a great start,
I will get pictures soon,
PPRM