Waylon they faired the winter great and are all calving now; we did not palpate them but they are calving like crazy one died in the winter from unknown cause!! We sold the calfs at 300 weight but Dehorned them as babys!!!You would not beleave the check!!!
The bulls were Black and all the heifers were brangus!! There were 3 spotted the rest were solid!! Make me think about buying corrinte cows and putting a Black Limosine Bull!! Dehorn sale a 350 weight!! Run 3 corrinte cows to one beef cow!!! Do the math on todays market!! One steer calf at 550 wieght at an average of 85 cents!!!! One black or solid corrinte cross calf dehorned at 350 weight .average $1.05 TIMES 3!!
I have 10 Corrinte cows that I am trying they never came out of the woods all winter not a drop of hay!!!
Why the welfare cows waited to be feed!! All the corrinte cows have solid babys and some of them are spotted!!!If someone would have told me this 3 years ago I would have said they were crazy!!!! The cow bussiness is getting tuff with the price of hay and feed then no good market!!I am in the cow bussiness to make money if I don't make money then I've got to go back to work that would suck!! So I am always thinking ahead!!
Some people have never done the math on hay!!! I buy all my hay do not bail!! It takes for me 2 5x5 rolls per cow for winter!!!
If I hold a 100 acre field for hay bailed 3 times a year that will prduce 450 rolls of hay I pay someone to bail it at $20 a roll then fertilize at $10 that is $30 a roll!!I still pay $13,500 for hay!!!
I buy my hay at $50 a roll delivered to my hay traps!! $50 times 450 is $22,500
I use my 100 acre hay pasture to graze cattle!! 3 acres per cow that will put 30 more head to the herd!! At 550 wieght on there calfs at a $1 a pound is $550 per calf times 30 = $16,500
$22,500 subtract $16,500 =$6000 Thats what it cost me to feed hay to 230 head of cows!!! Instead of $13,500 and me doing all the work!! All I need is one 65 horse power tractor to put the hay out!!! Thats why I hog hunt all the time!!!!
