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<blockquote data-quote="HarryB97" data-source="post: 6520867" data-attributes="member: 8256"><p>We used to rear Angus & Hereford X calves but have recently reared 2 batches of dairy bulls, 80 calves in total. Rearing an AA or Her X to finish or sell as store will pay well as long as they are gaining 1KG+ a day. Fresians on the other hand are a waste ot time selling as store you will only get £1.30 per KG liveweight at best ( the P grades will ruin this) A native with a named sire sold privatley as a store will normally get you £1.70+ quite easily except at the minute... With AA or Her if they get ill and you treat them that is job done we find with pure dairy bulls they repeatably get ill and you will end up with a more uneven batch. Normally we work on 1 death per batch of 40 so 2.5% but with dairy bulls with the exact same treatment we normally have a mortaility of 7.5% and more runts etc. We have now gone back to natives!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarryB97, post: 6520867, member: 8256"] We used to rear Angus & Hereford X calves but have recently reared 2 batches of dairy bulls, 80 calves in total. Rearing an AA or Her X to finish or sell as store will pay well as long as they are gaining 1KG+ a day. Fresians on the other hand are a waste ot time selling as store you will only get £1.30 per KG liveweight at best ( the P grades will ruin this) A native with a named sire sold privatley as a store will normally get you £1.70+ quite easily except at the minute... With AA or Her if they get ill and you treat them that is job done we find with pure dairy bulls they repeatably get ill and you will end up with a more uneven batch. Normally we work on 1 death per batch of 40 so 2.5% but with dairy bulls with the exact same treatment we normally have a mortaility of 7.5% and more runts etc. We have now gone back to natives! [/QUOTE]
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