Congrats young man! Continue on the path you are on. Markets will be changing in staggering #'s within a year. Buy cheap now & sell at a greater profit. Congrats👍👍
i hope you're right i just bought 5 Jersey calves at 20 bucks a piece in topenish Wa, 1 day old so i hope by the time i sell prices have gone up. first time raising live stock. just moved out of La to central Wa wish me luck guys!!!
Hard to fatten Holsteins on grass. Best way we've found is on a self feeder with cornstalks for roughage we average about 14 months from newborn calf to 1500 lb slaughter weight.
good job of loading the calves.dont feel spoiled.feel blessed to have the land.im just starting out.im 67 years old.building a breading heard is not an option for me.i wont live long enough for that.i have a very short time left .I must find a lender to lone me 14 million dollors for 30 sections of land,i can put 1 dollor down.land here in texas out of site.5k to 10k per acre average.good luck with the next group of calves.
Don't try to Breed, as you said you don't have the time. But that has never been the way to build a herd anyway, not the fast way. You don't want any females at all. The grow to slow, mothers giving milk are having there weight sucked right off of them for the calves, they sacrifice themselves. Sacrifice is loss. You want ever cow growing rapidly. Also, you dont need 14 million for land. Someone else has already paid that expense. You need permission to graze at a % of the herd at auction. Free rent til you get paid, every year. Then you buy dairy bull feeder calves at 25-40 a piece, which is easy. You wean for 5-6 weeks on milk replacer or goats milk. A trick is to go to a medium sized dairy and ask do they have any milkers on antibodies, if they do they still have to milk them but they cant sell the milk so they dump it. This is fantastic milk with a bit of extra medical value for your feeder calves. Once they hit 6 weeks you turn them out into pasture, if you found someone with enough land to lease to you then finish them off. The money from your first herd will allow you to decide if you wish to keep the model, or go ahead and buy those pretty black angus bottle calves, rinse and repeat, use profits to buy more calves than before. If tight on room find another lease and double it up. You can make a substantial herd, on the cheap, in short order. Ignore losses to death and sickness, at those rates just consider it cheap veil. Hope that helps.
I just recently found your channel and I've been binge watching your videos in no certain order, I just wanted to say I'm proud of what your doing and what you've accomplished. I hope your successes multiply more and more with every thing you do
I’d just like to say thank you for your videos . They have been very helpful and informative and because of your videos you have inspired me to start raising calves last week I just got two bottle calves.
u migth want to check the hydroponic green pasture. it multiplies the weigth of food of grain. almost by 7. i use corn. down here at the south mexico during the dry season. it only takes from 7 to 14 days. and to complement i use mono-salt blocks so the cows can lick the mineral they really need. im getting 380 to 540 kg final weigth on the cows after 1 year.
Thank you for walking an old Guy through what I should have learned when I your age. Looking forward to our next project.......well the one you will do all the work and take al the risk. Good Job and a lot of hard work.
Congratulations on your successful efforts! I have only watched 8 or 10 of your videos but will go back and watch the rest. I really enjoy them. Thank you for sharing!
We sold early in the year, before the drought hit. The past few summers have been drought with little rain. Pasture grass is dead only weeds. Thinking about not even getting calves to start raising until the weather cycle changes.
nice. my grandpas cows were sold very cheaply also, most of the bidders had left so the cows were sold at $ 1.00 per pound times their weight, and a couple of them were broken off from the rest but all of them were sold.
Fair play to you young man cattle is a learning curve He in Ireland we had 7 months of winter no spring and straight into the driest summer open 30 years no grass for 8 weeks it’s back now but to late we are feeding silage for the last 4 weeks going to be a tough year on everyone
Nice to see a productive young man. What state are you in? I raised many bottle calves. Cattle prices are crap now especially anything not Angus. Have you heard of jump start feed? My barn weighs soon as they get off the trailer and graded.
A payday is always nice and it puts it all in perspective--you can tally your costs of raising the bottle feeders and see what your gain/(loss) amounts to after this sale. It's one full cycle, purchase to sale. You've got it made because of all the info/advice your dad gives you about raising calves, cutting costs, etc and I don't know if your calves graze for nothing on your family's property, or if you have access to haymaking equip, etc which saves alot. It's too bad you lose about $150 in weight waiting for the sale to happen. I couldn't understand a thing that auctioneer was saying. :) Anyway, live &learn; this business and way of life is in your blood.
The buyers buy the cattle to slaughterhause or they raise them to heigher Weight? I am asking, because in europe there is no market for cattle under 700 kg
Good job , young man ! Keep at it. Have fun on the journey. Try looking into blackbuck and scimitar oryx. You can keep em on a low fence place and they are worth good moeny. Blackbuck are small and dont each much, so thats a feed saver. Keep going.
WOW! It wouldnt even be worth it at all if they only brought that much. I think the lowest I saw sell brought 71 cents! Hope the market improves for you!
If they are 10 months old shouldn’t they be about 800 lbs? I have finished a Holstein angus cross in 12 months and weighed 1200 lbs. .93 per lb isn’t bad.
I was hoping to get them to about 700lbs at 10 months. And they should have at least weighed that much. I was hoping to grassfeed them for the most part with just about 5lbs of grain per day. But since we had a drought and no grass for them to hardly eat, they did not put on the weight I was hoping for. Next year im hoping my angusxholsteins will average at least 750 or 800 mostly on pasture with a little grain supplement.
Well in this case every farmer in Southwest Missouri, Kansas, and parts of Oklahoma were selling a lot of animals. Some even had to sell their whole herd. The drought caused basically no hay to be made and hay was selling for $100 a round bale. So most people chose to sell cows vs lose money buying hay. And because hay was so high, buyers weren’t willing to pay much for calves because they would make a profit otherwise. The drought just forced a lot of people to sell animals and people didn’t have hay so there weren’t many buyers. Hope that answered it! Have a good one!
PAdairyfarming , I know! Last week they brought upper 70s and low 80s. But they just happened to come up just in time for me! Hope prices improve in your area. It’s hard to keep doing it when prices are that low.
Why do you keep avoiding answering questions? People have asked what State you live in and what/where is the barn your selling at? I wouldn’t think this would be an issue, no one is going to move in on ‘your territory’
SpeedBuggy reason y he didn't answer, especially vegans, if he tell where he live vegans gonna come there and protest... that's why the reason he didn't answer. ..
Phil Bindel that just happened to be at Springfield. We have found that Holsteins tend to sell better at Springfield than Joplin. They are both quite a drive for us so I’d rather take them to the higher market.
@@FarmandHammer I'm just a freshman in ffa so I'm doing cattle for my sae project so im getting some angus calves and I hope to have a farm some day. I've learned alot from your videos.
My school never had FFA so I hope you learn a lot! Hopefully those angus calves work out for ya and about having your own farm one day, there isn’t that many young people going back to the farm so there should be plenty of opportunity for you! Best of luck!
i guess since there are little hay laying around when its dry, other farmers in the area are less interested in buying more animals. which press the price down
im Truck owner operator and have Vet.degree . I'm planning to do Shipping livestock export to overseas markets. prices much higher . if u r interested in such business ,we can make team work partners . i just need some Logistc requirements like small farm and local vet.clinic to prepare calves for shipping.
Congratulations, Bud. It's rare to see someone so young to work so hard. You'll make it; just don't ever give up.
$4800 that’s a good start for selling those cows, keep up the good work,
Congrats young man! Continue on the path you are on. Markets will be changing in staggering #'s within a year. Buy cheap now & sell at a greater profit. Congrats👍👍
i hope you're right i just bought 5 Jersey calves at 20 bucks a piece in topenish Wa, 1 day old so i hope by the time i sell prices have gone up. first time raising live stock. just moved out of La to central Wa wish me luck guys!!!
nice, you remind me of my son who was 20 when he was killed in the war. Stay well.
Sorry for your lost son
Hard to fatten Holsteins on grass. Best way we've found is on a self feeder with cornstalks for roughage we average about 14 months from newborn calf to 1500 lb slaughter weight.
Not bad for your first go round, live and learn my friend.... Peace, God Bless America...
good job of loading the calves.dont feel spoiled.feel blessed to have the land.im just starting out.im 67 years old.building a breading heard is not an option for me.i wont live long enough for that.i have a very short time left .I must find a lender to lone me 14 million dollors for 30 sections of land,i can put 1 dollor down.land here in texas out of site.5k to 10k per acre average.good luck with the next group of calves.
Thanks and good luck on starting your own!
Don't try to Breed, as you said you don't have the time. But that has never been the way to build a herd anyway, not the fast way. You don't want any females at all. The grow to slow, mothers giving milk are having there weight sucked right off of them for the calves, they sacrifice themselves. Sacrifice is loss. You want ever cow growing rapidly. Also, you dont need 14 million for land. Someone else has already paid that expense. You need permission to graze at a % of the herd at auction. Free rent til you get paid, every year. Then you buy dairy bull feeder calves at 25-40 a piece, which is easy. You wean for 5-6 weeks on milk replacer or goats milk. A trick is to go to a medium sized dairy and ask do they have any milkers on antibodies, if they do they still have to milk them but they cant sell the milk so they dump it. This is fantastic milk with a bit of extra medical value for your feeder calves. Once they hit 6 weeks you turn them out into pasture, if you found someone with enough land to lease to you then finish them off. The money from your first herd will allow you to decide if you wish to keep the model, or go ahead and buy those pretty black angus bottle calves, rinse and repeat, use profits to buy more calves than before. If tight on room find another lease and double it up. You can make a substantial herd, on the cheap, in short order. Ignore losses to death and sickness, at those rates just consider it cheap veil. Hope that helps.
I just recently found your channel and I've been binge watching your videos in no certain order, I just wanted to say I'm proud of what your doing and what you've accomplished. I hope your successes multiply more and more with every thing you do
michael Yes, I’m new too, and binging and enjoying videos immensely. If it wasn’t for lockdown....
I’d just like to say thank you for your videos . They have been very helpful and informative and because of your videos you have inspired me to start raising calves last week I just got two bottle calves.
bryan pride congrats! Hope you enjoy raising them!
Have you ever killed them yourself?
Way to go! Who cares about the haters? Keep doing your thing
u migth want to check the hydroponic green pasture. it multiplies the weigth of food of grain. almost by 7. i use corn. down here at the south mexico during the dry season. it only takes from 7 to 14 days. and to complement i use mono-salt blocks so the cows can lick the mineral they really need. im getting 380 to 540 kg final weigth on the cows after 1 year.
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buen trabajo campeon
actualmente vivo en USA
de que parte del sur de mexico heres tu?? tengo ganado BRANGUS por si te interesa
Your adorable young man...working hard in a young age! Congrats!
Thank you for walking an old Guy through what I should have learned when I your age. Looking forward to our next project.......well the one you will do all the work and take al the risk. Good Job and a lot of hard work.
Thank you! And like I said, I’m glad I had someone to teach me at such a young age. But it’s never to late to learn.
Great job. I watched all of your videos. Excited to see the next cycle.
Thanks for watching! I’m also really excited about the next ones because I’m gonna be trying a few different methods.
Congratulations on your successful efforts! I have only watched 8 or 10 of your videos but will go back and watch the rest. I really enjoy them. Thank you for sharing!
No need to explain yourself to jealous people. Congratulations mate 👍🏼
We sold early in the year, before the drought hit. The past few summers have been drought with little rain. Pasture grass is dead only weeds. Thinking about not even getting calves to start raising until the weather cycle changes.
nice. my grandpas cows were sold very cheaply also, most of the bidders had left so the cows were sold at $ 1.00 per pound times their weight, and a couple of them were broken off from the rest but all of them were sold.
Do not give up u start young you will have fun soon
Great to see a young fellow in business.
If I can saying you should look in to doing beef cattle they grow better and will sell for more
Fair play to you young man cattle is a learning curve
He in Ireland we had 7 months of winter no spring and straight into the driest summer open 30 years no grass for 8 weeks it’s back now but to late we are feeding silage for the last 4 weeks going to be a tough year on everyone
Sounds like you had it even worse over there! Hope things get a little better this year!
ya it was some year here in Cork
Nice to see a productive young man. What state are you in? I raised many bottle calves. Cattle prices are crap now especially anything not Angus. Have you heard of jump start feed? My barn weighs soon as they get off the trailer and graded.
A payday is always nice and it puts it all in perspective--you can tally your costs of raising the bottle feeders and see what your gain/(loss) amounts to after this sale. It's one full cycle, purchase to sale. You've got it made because of all the info/advice your dad gives you about raising calves, cutting costs, etc and I don't know if your calves graze for nothing on your family's property, or if you have access to haymaking equip, etc which saves alot. It's too bad you lose about $150 in weight waiting for the sale to happen. I couldn't understand a thing that auctioneer was saying. :) Anyway, live &learn; this business and way of life is in your blood.
Good ole Springfield livestock marketing center. Missouri State Ag grad myself and spent many days out there after class.
Go bears!
you did good with the crazy markets...
I’m just lucky they turned out good just in time!
Thanks for teaching us young brother! congrats brother you do good.
Love your videos. Keep them coming!
Videos are great bud! Hopefully next season fares even better!
Farmer I am a new subscriber not a bad video I will look at more videos 🤓my friend take care my friend 🇺🇸🐝
Thanks!
Wouldn’t it be better to wait another year, to get more money plus breeding them to produce calves
I watched them all, thank you for the videos. very informational. Thinking about dointg the same thing myself.
Shane Powers thank you for watching them! If you do end up getting calves, I hope they do well for you!
Thanks!
I live 45 minutes away from that sale barn
looking forward to numbers and these videos are just great
Selling is the fun part..i started raising calves at 16...great vid
I grew up just down the road from that cemetery.
I'm 26 and sold my second group this spring. I'm always surprised to find out what I learned from trying to market them each year.
How old where they when you sold them
That’s my favorite song 13:15
Greetings from the pond in London UK 🇬🇧.
Are you American? If you are I’m subscribing right now. I’m murikan and I support my own. MURIKA 🇺🇸🤙
A BLACK ANGUS SOLD IN ESCALON LIVESTOCK MARKET WENT FOR 84 CENTS A POUND 716 POUNDER
Brilliant JoB 👍🏻
All I can say be grateful for money u made may not be what u wanted but every dollar helps.
Just 20? Im 16 and im working with brangus cows and selling their calves
The buyers buy the cattle to slaughterhause or they raise them to heigher Weight? I am asking, because in europe there is no market for cattle under 700 kg
Wow couldn't believe how bad the prices are there I just sold 20 fats for 32,460 1.05 a pound
Awesome I. Going to be a farmer probably when I’m older
I will be l just love farming myself my brother is a farmer and
l just love it so yea
Jeff Stone cool
Thanks l am only yong
Good job , young man ! Keep at it. Have fun on the journey. Try looking into blackbuck and scimitar oryx. You can keep em on a low fence place and they are worth good moeny. Blackbuck are small and dont each much, so thats a feed saver. Keep going.
Here in western Canada 500 lb Holstein are 1.50 lb Canadian funds
Wow! That’s much higher but idk what the difference would be in Canadian funds.
I'd love for my cattle like to bring .93cents!!they'd bring 40-80cents here in IN!
WOW! It wouldnt even be worth it at all if they only brought that much. I think the lowest I saw sell brought 71 cents! Hope the market improves for you!
Looking forward to more videos
Thanks, and I look forward to making more!
If they are 10 months old shouldn’t they be about 800 lbs? I have finished a Holstein angus cross in 12 months and weighed 1200 lbs. .93 per lb isn’t bad.
I was hoping to get them to about 700lbs at 10 months. And they should have at least weighed that much. I was hoping to grassfeed them for the most part with just about 5lbs of grain per day. But since we had a drought and no grass for them to hardly eat, they did not put on the weight I was hoping for. Next year im hoping my angusxholsteins will average at least 750 or 800 mostly on pasture with a little grain supplement.
On The Farm Why dont you just get them onto whole corn?
How do you know when they are ready to sell?
Do you go by age or size ?
Hey not sure if you have time to answer this question but how did you get stated selling cows. Was thinking about getting into it myself.
Can a 16 year old cash a cattle check
Why would prices be low because of a drought? Wouldn’t that mean “supply” (beef) is low?
Well in this case every farmer in Southwest Missouri, Kansas, and parts of Oklahoma were selling a lot of animals. Some even had to sell their whole herd. The drought caused basically no hay to be made and hay was selling for $100 a round bale. So most people chose to sell cows vs lose money buying hay. And because hay was so high, buyers weren’t willing to pay much for calves because they would make a profit otherwise. The drought just forced a lot of people to sell animals and people didn’t have hay so there weren’t many buyers. Hope that answered it! Have a good one!
Feel bad for you hope you still are able to come out ahead
Based on my number so far, I am already ahead and I still have two more to sell. So hopefully it will be a decent little profit.
Yep good luck
what part of the country are you growing your cattle?
How old where they when you sold them
Good going. Unfortunately, it shows you to stay in school. Farming/ranching is tough, but it is fulfilling. Good luck.
Congrats
Steers are Brining like 50-80 cents here... un real
PAdairyfarming , I know! Last week they brought upper 70s and low 80s. But they just happened to come up just in time for me! Hope prices improve in your area. It’s hard to keep doing it when prices are that low.
That's going price year round.
why you don't sell the meat to people ?why go to barn and sell them that cheap ?
Why do you keep avoiding answering questions? People have asked what State you live in and what/where is the barn your selling at?
I wouldn’t think this would be an issue, no one is going to move in on ‘your territory’
SpeedBuggy reason y he didn't answer, especially vegans, if he tell where he live vegans gonna come there and protest... that's why the reason he didn't answer. ..
I sold my first batch of calves a few months ago and I'm 12
You don’t have to be lonely!!! At farmers only dot com! Sorry can’t get that stuff outta my head 😂
I been past this sale barn several times!
Mate those holstiens take 21/2 Years to grow and finish you have to factor that in
Great vid!! 👍
Juan Puente thanks again!
You gotta start somewhere👍
New fan. Liked and subbed.
Smart young man!!
Which barn was that Joplin or Springfield?
Phil Bindel that just happened to be at Springfield. We have found that Holsteins tend to sell better at Springfield than Joplin. They are both quite a drive for us so I’d rather take them to the higher market.
what city do you live near in Missouri
@@FarmandHammer what town do you live in I live in republic
Going price around me is $0.35 pound.😣
Subscribed!!
Im 16 about to be 17 and I've been thinking about getting into cattle, I originally wanted to just breed and sell, is that possible?
Do you go to the buffalo mo stock yards?
I have never been there as Springfield or Joplin is closer for me. I have heard good things about them though!
@@FarmandHammer I live really close to Springfield too
@@FarmandHammer I'm just a freshman in ffa so I'm doing cattle for my sae project so im getting some angus calves and I hope to have a farm some day. I've learned alot from your videos.
My school never had FFA so I hope you learn a lot! Hopefully those angus calves work out for ya and about having your own farm one day, there isn’t that many young people going back to the farm so there should be plenty of opportunity for you! Best of luck!
@@FarmandHammer thanks man I'm loving your videos are you more up by the bolivar, nevada, el Dorado area?
Great Job
what kind/brand of chute do you use?
Very interesting video. I just subscribed.
What does the droit have much to do with the cost of the calves
i guess since there are little hay laying around when its dry, other farmers in the area are less interested in buying more animals. which press the price down
Thank you
because you got to pay to feed them and if their is no grass they don't eat and is a bout the pounds
mr fun ok
Enjoyed the vid thank you
O wow i think ur the first person I seen on CZcams from mo
Hi are works prices the kg they weigh at alive? Or when it's just the carcass
Yes those were the price “live weight”. They normally don’t sell by the carcass lb unless selling direct to butcher.
What sale barn did you sell them at?
springfield missouri
Why holsteins?
What are the prices for fats where you are?
When will you be getting more calves
not to big of a deal what's the just 20 about
I sold my first set at 9 years old and I payed with money I earned
How much your cows
Where are you located in no?
Why did they have 9 In one group and 1 in another group?
They separated them out by weight. So the first 9 were close to 550lbs and the one they sold separately was only 430 lbs.
one was 100 pounds lighter
Your not spoiled. Your parents worked hard for that land so you could use it. Plus no spoiled young man would do what you did raising those calves.
Where do you live its
New subscriber here cute farmer
Have you ever killed them yourself?
20 years old is not a calf
im Truck owner operator and have Vet.degree .
I'm planning to do Shipping livestock export to overseas markets.
prices much higher .
if u r interested in such business ,we can make team work partners .
i just need some Logistc requirements like small farm and local vet.clinic to prepare calves for shipping.