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15 Feb ’12
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Well just heard back from the butcher, the hanging weight is 540 and 432. So their live weights should have been around 900 and 720 pounds.
So we should be getting roughly 650 pounds back in meat.
I'm gonna need at least another freezer.
3 Nov ’12
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wow, congrats!
15 Feb ’12
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Thanks, can't wait to try the first steak.
5 Mar ’12
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This is making me hungry just thinking of steak.
15 Feb ’12
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Will be interesting to do the price breakdown, I didn't keep meticulous records but do have a good idea of what we went through, 140 bales of hay, a bag of grain every 3 days on average would be pretty accurate I think, the carrots killed us over the last couple months, not sure if I am going to add that into the price, I don't think most people would go through 200 pounds a week.
15 Feb ’12
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So $700 for the cows.
$490 in hay.
180 bags of grain for $2700
Would be a lot cheaper to buy grain by the ton, we used 4.5 tons.
Just called the feed store and general feed is going for 349 a ton so that would have been 1570.
So 5.98 a pound as is without the carrots.
4.24 if we would have bought the grain in bulk.
This all depends if we hit the 650 pounds of meat.
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