724# hanging weight on a 10 month old steer!!

Dave from MN · Apr 14, 2011

Very happy! Selling at $2# hanging weight. Too cheap? Was a Normande/red angus/shorthorn.

rrlund · Apr 14, 2011

What the heck are you feeding those things up there? Or is it from being down wind of that Japanese nuclear plant? LOL

Anonymous-0 · Apr 14, 2011

Are you serious...what were you feeding him??? I had one last year that was close to 2 yrs old @748lbs hanging..

IaGary · Apr 14, 2011

You're doing something right to get that weight at 10 months.

Know a guy that got $1.95 in the meat for a trailer load last week.

So $2.00 ain't bad.

Gary

Kow Farmer · Apr 14, 2011

Holy cow Dave! That is awesome! Hopefully you can continue this success. It takes me at least 14 months to achieve that hanging weight on my Black Angus crossbred steers. $2 a lb. hanging weight is not out of line in my mind, considering the input costs to feed the steer to this weight, especially with $7 plus corn prices. If people don't like it, tell them to buy that greasy crap in the store for $4 a pound or what ever it is going for. You can't by that quality of fresh meat for $2 a pound at the meat counter in a store.
Kow Farmer

4010 puller · Apr 14, 2011

Are all of your cows this breed? Any photo"s of the critters and their calves? Thats darn good, I also think the price is better than average. How big is your herd?

Ultradog MN · Apr 14, 2011

IIRC you are way up northern MN aren't you Dave?
Must be that -40° weather that finishes them off so nice.

M Nut · Apr 14, 2011

Good for you! My coworker buys her beef from a farmer in Browerville, MN and she just said last week that the price was $1.80 hanging weight.

DoubleR · Apr 14, 2011

Raised the price to 2 bucks per lb hang on my holstein beef. Just sold three and nobody seem to complain about the price. I just explain the rise in corn prices resulting in the increase feed cost. It takes me about untill about 14mo.old to get that kind of hang wt though. They have all the ground corn and hay they want starting at about 6 weeks old.

JMS/.MN · Apr 15, 2011

Jerry- He"s a bit SE of STC- but still had plenty of the - temps!

Dave from MN · Apr 15, 2011

These recieved free choice creep feed from birth to weaning, then free choice alfalfa and free choice ration of 94%corn and 6% "Steakmaker" 45% pellets until about Feb 1st, then it was full feed. This big one was by far the greatest gainer, but the rest are packing it on now too. Should have the rest at that weight by thier 12 months. No current picture's. When I first got the cattle a few years ago I was always taking picture's, now few and far between.

randallnMo · Apr 15, 2011

Well, what did this thing weigh live? According to my numbers, he would have had to gain an average of somewhere between 3.25-3.5 pounds per day...since birth......and that's assuming he weighed 150 pounds at birth, which would have been a monster, but I"ve seen it happen. At first I called BS on this, but the numbers say it is possible. Wow.

M Nut · Apr 15, 2011

I hear ya. I'd be think'n bs in most cases, but not from Dave. If he says it weighed 724#, that's what it weighed. He tells things straight.

724# hanging weight on a 10 month old steer!!

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