We use a system I call cow flipping to expand the cow calf herd and to raise revenue, we buy the poorest, oldest and plainest cull cows, bred cows and pairs that we can find, not the walking dead or the cancer eyes, just the ones who need worming and something to eat. Bring them in and worm,vaccinate and mouth them, palpate any that were not checked at the sale barn, keep them penned up a few days on hay and start a little feed, turn out on pasture and feed them 3 times a week unless pasture is real good, creep feed any calves to help keep the pressure off the cows, calve out any bred cows then make a decision if any are worth turning out with the bulls, after roughly 60 days on pasture put the open cows and cows that have weaned calves in the feedlot for another 60 days or so. Chopped hay, corn silage and grain screening pellets or rice bran, rolled corn or whatever high energy feed is the cheapest at the time, these type of cattle will typically gain 300 pounds in this 120 day period, the grain feeding on grass and in the feed lot puts on ''white'' fat, which brings a premium at the packer. Sell direct to a cow killer, live weight or on the rail, killer cows are in high demand and actually make more efficient gains than steers. if you can keep your feed inputs under $200.00 per ton you will make money on the increase in selling price and the weight gain, and the calf if there is one. We background calves as well but because we live in the deep south we can buy calves a little cheaper on average because there is the automatic shipping adjustment that all the order buyers factor in and bid by. I direct sell all calves as well except odd balls and real plain calves because they bring a lot more in uniform lots and sorted by steers or heifers and color.
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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