Raising Bottle Calves For Profit

However you can raise calves either from your existing flock or buy from the market.

Raising bottle calves for profit. If you have always wanted to get into the cattle business but get indigestion when you see cattle prices a bottle calf may just fit the bill. They dont understand what you are doing and it feels unnatural to them. Its probably one of the easiest most inexpensive ways to get into the cattle business.

As dairy operations have expanded in size over the past twenty five years from the small 50 cow herds to over 100 cows and into the thousands calf care has become a major economic enterprise. This diagram shows the. Bottle calves can be purchased at any time after birth but I recommend purchasing an older bottle.

Raising a bottle calf is a great way to expand your farm. Current beef prices offer opportunities raise dairy steer calves up to various weights at economical cost of production levels. Determine Your Market Sell at Auction.

Most that make a good profit go ahead and raise the calf to a few hundred pounds then sell. Let the calf lick and smell the milk. One fellow sold through a auction and complained he lost money but his calves were only 8 weeks old.

The calf might be a twin and mama only has milk for one or a heifers calf that isnt accepted by its mother or a calf whose mother died. A primary goal in feeding the calves grain from a young age and not feeding forage is to develop the rumen to adapt it to a grain-fed diet. Raising calves seems to be very easy because they are small very cute and adorable.

Feed the calves twice daily at the same times each day. Bottle feeding calves takes a ton of patience in the beginning. From that wide selection of topics you would get the idea of raising calves was a big and complicated process and youd be correct.