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However, entering into the cattle business right now would be very expensive. Even poor quality breeding stock are selling for lots of $$$, and land prices and rents are sky high. Personally, I have been exposed to cattle since my birth 65 years ago, and have experienced quite a few things in those years.
The recent surge in cattle prices has had us shipping our own weaned steer calves because we cannot justify keeping them... if the market crashes, I do not want to be regretting not selling these 450-550 wt feeders at the current $3.00-3.40 we are getting... when a 6-7 wt steer is bringing in the 2.50-2.75 range... not alot more money for the ...
Cattle prices will not pay for it. Even selling custom beef will not pay for it today. Good registered cattle are not cheap. $2,000 a head is probably a low average..... $2,000 to 20,000 is what a good to exceptional bull costs. I am not trying to discourage you. I started with some 1/2 dairy 1/2 beef animals... and have bred up from there.
East Texas. Pass on this one. It’s dangerous behavior especially for a small farmer. Someone will get hurt. I have a neighbor who expects his cows to be calm, gentle, raise their calf and not go through fences. Any cow that challenges him, calf or no calf, is hauled to the next auction. I raise Katahdin hair sheep.
It is amazing the difference in prices in different areas. The big 100 lb type holstein bull calves are back up to the 1.50-2.00 per lb range here... but the smaller ones are still often less than $100.... I think that they are creeping back up since holstein steers are way up.... Most farmers here also breed their "lower" half of the herd to beef.
Okay, so I am a Dairy farmer at heart, grew up on a Farm. When I was young, we had steers, then pigs, then finally my dad got into Dairy farming. Anyways, I showed beef cattle for 4-h a few years and loved them. So now i want to start raising some beef cattle. Im married, have a young family, currently work on a farm.
Cattle ranchers are not so lucky. Per Dallas Morning News: 'Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller told The Dallas Morning News that the fire had killed up to “tens of thousands of head of cattle.”' Beef and cattle prices are going to soar with this fire.
The other was from my sister's Highland steers, raised and finished on grass. This was 18 month old beeves, so shouldn't have been tough at all. I can honestly say that it was the worst meat I've ever tasted in my life. I've had possum, coon, sheep, groundhog, squirrel, pig, deer and corn fed beef. I've even eaten store bought, CAFO raised beef.
Newborns: 2 quarts per feeding for 100-115 lb calf; 1.5 quarts for newborns smaller than 100 lbs. Always read the label for mixing directions/amount of water needed to add. Feed milk replacer twice a day everyday, keeping around 12 hours in between feedings. Increase water/decrease milk replacer as calves get older.
cattle thru the season (if your location gets regular rain). Don't mow in drought times. Tall, dried up grasses are not very nutritional, or what cattle will CHOOSE to mostly eat, they want new, younger green stuff. Again, I believe that a Dexter calf will reach processing weight, 700# or so, in a much shorter time than 2 years, or even 18 months.