How Much Money Did I Make on Bottle Calves in 2019?
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Love the sweatshirt! Thank you for your honesty with sharing your numbers. Good luck with the job search and next years heifer’s too.. 🇺🇸
Wow this has been a journey. I'm happy you made money and cant wait until you get the new ones.
Pretty impressive that you did all that and finished your last year of college at the same time. Well done young man. Keep up the good work. Hope you find a good piece of land so you can grow your operation.
Well done can’t wait for the new calves ❤️
Great update, and I look forward to following you as you grow your cattle empire!
I’m sure gonna try!
Great video! Glad you went into the numbers as most UA-camrs don’t and it really shows the financial side of farming.
I noticed a lot of UA-camrs don’t like to share their numbers for some reason which is why I will always do my best to provide my honest results. I don’t ever want to mislead anyone when it comes to getting into a business! Have a good one!
Farm & Hammer thank you for sharing. I especially like the details on the financial side. Finally, someone is willing to share the most important information of all. It really puts a lot in perspective. I subscribed based on this video.
Thanks for the great videos! Congratulations on graduating!
Really enjoyed the cost break down and a full picture of the entire process. Great, helpful information 👍
Also, watching this in 2021 and hearing you say you are looking forward to 2020 caused an inward cringe 😬
Oh my Gaud ,I'm ready to cry so happy for you ,thank God my prayers were answered,,Trust 2020 brings you even more prosperity, you worked so hard you deserve everything yo got,I love you so ,much hugs for a great new year.keep up the good work.
Thank you and good luck to you as well!
that aged well
Awsome! Love to see great success!
Thanks dude! See you around sometime
Glad you done well. Up north I cant even get that out of my straight beef calves Prices are awful. Pasture idea sounds great good luck in 2020
congrats on your grad!! the bulls gonna do well!! lotsa calves!!better economy and prices upturned!! have a blessed 2020 ivan
Thank you and happy new year to you as well!
Love your videos! Congrats on the College graduation! Keep up to great work!
Goo job! I've followed you most of the past year. Enjoy your work ethic, energy and inventiveness. Congrats on your degree. Education combined with hands-on is an almost cinch to succeed in life. Be looking for you in 2020.
Thank you for watching! I recognize the username as it makes me laugh a little every time I see it in the comments. See ya then!
Milk replacer in my area is about $70 per 50lb bag. I decided to purchase 2 nurse cows this year. Don't know where you are but I got five bottle babies at $15 a piece. last year and am hoping to fall into that luck again this year. Enjoy your channel and good luck in 2020.
Congratulations on your hard work and college. May 2020 bring you a Happy New Year and continued success.
Same to you!
Congrats on graduating. Happy new year.
Thank you and happy new year to you as well!
I hope you continue with this and triple your herd in 2020 and learn from this experience so you make all your goals, Happy New Year / congratulations for graduation
I would like to grow the operation but idk if I will be able to triple it (id like to though). Happy new year to you!
Farm & Hammer / whatever you decide I pray for your success! Just stay safe and sensible. You sound like you know what your doing!
Keep up the work man 💯🤍
great job young man!!!
Congratulations on your graduation! Looking at the big picture you did just fine but the heifers and their calves will truly make your payout ratio better.
I’m hoping so. Especially if I can get a few of the heifers to raise two calves for me. Have a good one!
I think you did good, but there was a lot of work you did also. Thanks for sharing and have a great day. Looking forward to next year with you and what every you end up doing.
Love the hoodie back in the day it was colder than hadies and snowing. It was first calf heifers and had to assist with some
My youtube friend you did good thanks for being straight up
Great video, and congratulations on Graduating College, looks like you have your life started in the right direction and you know how to farm and make a profit. God Bless!
Thank you!
Isaac, congrats on having a successful year with selling the steers. Hope your success continues into 2020. Best wishes with the job hunt.
Obviously you measure success different than I do
@@davidhickenbottom6574 Isaac seemed happy with his profits so I was trying to give him some encouragement. With him being young and living at home he probably doesn't have a lot of expenses.
@@benburns5995 I like the kid but he works his was off for peanuts. $150. For bottle Calfs that's ridiculous. They give them away in New England
Concisely, you clearly set and attain goals in life. Although you recently graduated from college, you know that education will be lifelong. Best regards in future endeavors.
Thank you!
Good video and good luck. I myself just bought shy of ten acres. Going to get some stockers and sell them to guys I work with and advice
You have Dr. Cody sweatshirt! Love his videos! Just found your videos! Love seeing young man ranching! I grew up ranching and farming as a kid. I still have chickens and garden 60 year old.
Congrats on graduating!
Good vid. Thanks for sharing
Very helpful video. Thanks.
I hope your parents are proud of you, I am. And just an idea for you, I started my herd with dairy cross heifers and they are capable of producing enough milk to raise 2 calves. Just as with your nurse cow, I paired up a 'bottle' calf with the natural born calf and with a few days of fuss, she will raise them both. I did have the cows stabled when they calved and had control of her calf so that made the whole process fairly easy. The two calves were keep together and tied together with about 2 feet between them when they were let out to nurse twice a day. The cow will increase her milk production to meet the demand so having the 2nd calf there either just before she calves or within 24 hours of calving works the best. It is labour intensive during calving, but your aren't bottle feeding for 2 months and save on all those associated cost and get a better calf at the end. If you can figure out how to use your buildings to to your advantage and take control of the new born calf, you won't have to bottle raise ?? 10? 15? how ever many heifers calve and they will finish heavier and healthier than a bottle baby. Something I just learned this week from a sheep farmer - rubbing the natural calf's poop on the rump and tail of the bottle-calf makes it smell like her's and she is more likely to willingly let it nurse, accepting it as if her own. Best of luck this year - you work really hard to so little money, but this establishing your own breeding herd, KEEPING RECORDS (make sure you have the records of any half-Angus heifers you have standing under that Angus bull or get them!) and staying with one breed and you keep improving your next generation of replacement heifers, at 7/8ths, they are considered pure-bred - that will be the heifers from any heifers your heifers deliver this fall! I personally favour Charlais but you've got a great start on Angus.
I’ve bottle raised calves when a mama dies for 30 years. Mine generally get some what stunted looking and pot bellied. I Like your video. I may need to feed more grain.
You are impressive, Great job bud.
Thank you!
Congratulations on graduating that's exciting. Now on to working, I hope someday you can be a farmer without having to have an outside income. You did good on your steers
I hope so too! Thanks!
An ounce of breeding is worth a ton of feeding. Good move of tweaking the system each year to see what works in your system. Hopefully you get a few nice calves on the ground later in the year.
Sell either before or after the holidays by at least a month would be better but no matter what prices r down now. U will definitely get this. Good luck to u in your travels
Well done. Very large commitment . Good luck with heifers.🐄🐂🐄🐂Congratulations on your degree.
Very nicely experience shared .thanks
Also remember, the market fluctuates ALL the time. I'm in Canada, and have spent 40 years going to our local and only livestock auction, and follow their market reports. Week to week, things change. Even the weather causes people to go or stay home. If farming was truly lucrative AND predictable all the time, everyone would be doing it! ;)
Great video I raise calves my self this my second year and is really kicking my butt my first year I lost rrealy bat my second year is going good I can Whait for 2020 thanks for the video now I know the I'm not crazy all friends and family think the I'm crazy trying to raise calves
That is a very good return on bucket calves.
Definitely much better than my previous year!
Maybe you do a little test with the next round where you push a couple with the grain to get them to 800lbs
Hey man, nice and interesting farm stories. Soo you surname, you got Finnish background history?
Very informative thank you. What about bulk feed?
400 dollars profit on each animal is very good.... That's a 50% mark up... At that you can easily invest in more calves, In the UK the grain/"corn bill is our biggest bill too... Hay+straw is very cheap,,, We do feed the beef animals abit of rolled barley too.... Great video,,, 👌👌
Congrlations on the calves and your graduation
Thanks!
Nice video.
That sweater is hilarious!
i dont get it
Spreedom, palpating s cow
At a horse barn I used to work at we fed some horses beet pulp, just put it in a bucket and soaked with water overnight and fed in the AM and set up the bucket again for the next day, I wonder if you could do something similar for the beans for your pigs so you don’t have to buy a grinder?
Where can i get one of your sweat shirts... I love the ai Man .. Love it
How do you think they will do on just free choice hay and 1% body weight on 14% grower grain
If you could explain the growing the calf process. How long they are on the bottle how long they are on calf grain? And when to start grain. I would greatly appreciate knowing what you do! Thanks!
Congrats on your college degree and your profitable year!
Good project. Your death loss on that class of cattle was quite acceptable. If your heifers are beef cross, consider feeding to harvest, say 1300# and sell them to the plant. About 35 head is a truckload to minimize trucking cost. Not sure where you’re located, but there are plants everywhere. Heifers wack for almost the same money as steers, and those stein/British cross calves will do fine at the plant. They’re likely going to hang select, but choice/select spread is only $3/# in the meat. It was $5 last week and usually spreads into the spring. It was $25 awhile back, and that hurts Stein crosses.
I'm curious, seeing how you have a herd of adultish heifers do you breed your own calves to separate and raise like you would with calves you buy? Seems like you could save the cost of going out and buying bottle calves if you could just breed them yourself, or do you not like separating calves from their mother??
Granted I don't know a whole lot about the calf raising business, but would figure one of the goals would be to eliminating the cost of bottle calf purchases? I would think that would be more profit in your pocket at the end of the year?
💰good deal💰
I used to do that. Made some money. Anyway, I think if you bought a cull milk cow, milked her or let the calves suckle, you'd reduce cost and milk is the best weight gainer for beef. Think?
I don't know what barn you went to. Typically some of the southern Mo cattle either go north or out to Texas
Where do I find the instructions on what you put together to feed your calves after there off the milk replacer?
How many months did you have them again before taking them to auction?
Liked the video. My first year farming. And it went ok. Learned a lot about the combine. Lol. And loved seeing your old 45. Put it motor in it. Be great to see it in future videos.
My goodness I wish I could make that kinda money on steers 😂. That pasture seems to do great.
Raising them on pasture does save a ton of money in the long run. I raised straight Holsteins last year which didn’t grow well on grass so I had to pour them the grain and that really hurt the check book. I’m gonna try it again next year and hopefully it will go the same way!
Why not start on grain and finish on hay? Seems cheaper, does grass fed take longer?
Hello this is my first time seeing one of your videos and the first thing I see is a sweatshirt of a cow with a man. LOL
It is merch from Cody creelman vlogs. Haha yeah I can’t wear it in public lol
Any way I can get ahold of you? Got a few questions about starting up
Where did you sell the calves?
How old are the calfs when you took them to auction?
How old were they when you sold them?
Nice cody creelman shirt
You got it
do you think it would be worth just buying weaned calves instead of bottle raising them? take a hit on the profit margin but make it back in time you could use raising more animals or something else?
The heavier the calf the less they bring per pound normally.
Howdy!!!
I sort my heifers like you, hold them till they get bred and sell off as bred heifers.
My steers I like to run them @ 300 to 400 lbs just bc I get roughly the same if not more per lb.
Here in the deep south I can give 50 for dairy bull calves and 100 for beef crosses.
I put a bag of replacer in each one and replacer is anywhere from 25 a bag for soy to 45 for whey sacks.
Once I get them in the field I put a tub of 20% lick and a round bale @ 45 bucks.
Usually that'll last me a few weeks with them grazing 5 acre field.
I really have to watch my numbers bc they dont care about cost at the sale barn.
Also I try and move as many off the farm directly to people looking to butcher themselves.
I've considered doing veal but down here in the deep south of Louisiana it's hard move them as veal.
Good luck my farming brother, wish you the best.
I have considered selling them as bred heifers but I’ll wait and see what the market is doing. Sounds like you’ve got some cheap calves down there as well as milk replacement! Baby calves have dropped here though, some aren’t even being bought at the sale barn! Good luck!
Can’t wait for you to branch out to the pigs!
Curious to see how well u make out on the free “Prepper Food”
I can’t wait for the pigs as well! Really excited to get everything going. Just finished up inventory on all of the prepper food so next will be diet formulation!
Ya really can get by without a grinder. Just soak the beans and whatnot a few days before feeding. It’ll work
Hey bro how can bring them in to pakistan
I like the sweat shirt send one my way, ....
It’s from Cody creelman on UA-cam. But I will hopefully have some of my own sweatshirts here soon!
I can see why the video pior you said not what your expecting but close. Or you said something like it.
I sell my head around 600 to 850 pounds on the biggest head usually. But its charolai/red angus cross and red Angus
Nice job..seems like around here they like them around 800# pay the best...?
I really want that hoodie lol....I can't find where to order.....Drop a link
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How many acres do u have your cows on. I'm in WI and looking to do the same thing as you.
I have 20 acres all tiled hay alf blend
We are in our first time with bottle calf’s how do we know when to take them off the botty
They start eating around the 11th week
Love watching your videos i didn't realise how little you get for your cattle in the US. We've just taken 15 steers to market the other week and converted to USD we got about $1.90/lbs which is in line with the average cost. Suppose it explains why our steaks are so much smaller and more expensive.
Cant you use the heifers as nanny cows or do they dont have enough milk?
I’m going to try. I think I should be able to get at least 5 of them to accept another calf. Yes they should have plenty of milk. They will more than double the milk production of a standard beef cow.
@@FarmandHammer oke and nice video btw
👍😀
When I was in the ffa years ago we kept books way different. You have to know exactly what and if you are making profit. Working for free is waisted time. You keep all cost records. No guessing. There’s water, electric, hay, bedding, land, building, equipment, fuel on all fronts. Don’t kill yourself on losing projects. Use your time wisely.
What about your time involved in raising the herd?
Where did you get the sweat shirt
Cody Creelman on UA-cam sent it to me
Cody Creelman on UA-cam sent it to me!
Do you have a Facebook page
I don't think I could be a rancher or breeder. I get attached to animals as pets and would want to keep them for life and spare them from slaughter. I'm not a treehugger, I just like all creatures.
It is tough to sell them especially the ones that like their petting. But I have to remember their purpose in life is to feed someone somewhere in the world. That makes it a little easier to sell!
Feed them salt and no water till you get ready to take them to the sale
Just curious what is the reasoning for this
@@ryderschwager2377 salt makes them thirsty let them drink right before you load them up for they can weight more with all that water in them.
Where do u live? U said ur lookin for a job. I’m wanting to learn more about raising cattle. I have a place and I’d be willing to hire u as a consultant for about a month. Name your price. Tony Xenos St Louis Mo. farm is in Salem Mo
What are you wanting to learn? I could potentially help you out. knowledgeable cattle farmer in Buffalo MO
Got A.I.?
is there many heifer bottle calves going through the sales ? and are they priced more than bull calves ? would the heifers reproduce ?or they all twins ?
30 dollars for a bale of hay? What?
what do you pay?
@@dereklouderbaugh570 I bale my own hay and Alfalfa. And I also do it for my neighbors so it pays itself off after a few years, I'm in illinois I have 512 acres.
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Congrats!
Now you messed up there somewhere you should have 18k in them and 17k is what you got so you're in the negative if your making a profit something is coming up that's going to take twice your profit ! Rule of farming!
I may have screwed up a little in my calculations but I am within $500. And yes that’s a good rule!
@@FarmandHammer that's just my experience or so it seems, it may be completely different in your case !
2020 didn't really work out
You better get a job at McDonald's
give Apple cider vinegar in their water. They will be healthier and gain more lbs per day.