Price for a 2 month old Hereford Angus mix bull

[Latestarter]

I believe he already answered that for you...

Hard to say without seeing them, but a healthy looking and mostly black 150lb bull calf with or without a white face can be bought for around $2.25/lb here at any livestock auction. Poor looking ones will run lower..$1.20-$1.30/lb

So if they're ~#300, you're looking at anywhere from ~ $360-$675 each, depending on quality.

 

[jhm47]

Don't let them fool you into thinking that 2 month old calves are 300#. If they weighed 80# at birth, and gained 2 lbs/day, they would be around 200 lbs. NO WAY they are 300#. Calves that young shouldn't be weaned yet anyway. They should be at least 90 - 100 days old, and then they might weigh 250 - 275 lbs.

 

[Bigtime400]

Sounds like he wants $3 a pound. Says they may be closer to 400#. That's a lot of money to shell out.

 

[greybeard]

Sounds like he wants $3 a pound. Says they may be closer to 400#. That's a lot of money to shell out.

The seller says 'they may be closer to 400 lbs at 2 months of age'?
Combined weight of both calves....or each weighs that much?

 

[jhm47]

Either the age is wrong, or the seller is full of it. You better get them weighed, and $3/lb is waaaaaay too high. Have you checked the markets lately? $3 would have been OK in 2014, but definitely not now.

 

[greybeard]

Either the age is wrong, or the seller is full of it. You better get them weighed, and $3/lb is waaaaaay too high.

I dunno jhm47. I'd pay $3/lb for the kinds of genetics we're talking about here. A herd sire that can produce a 400lb calf at 60 days on momma would set the whole beef industry on it's ear. One of the N. Dakota SAV bulls (Sensation 5615) sold for $650K back in Feb--the offspring of these 2 bulls would surely be worth twice that when they reached breeding age. I'd like to see the epds on that sire.
but I digress,...
Now we're over 5lbs average daily weight gain, if the angus/herf cross holds the average birthweight of about 86lbs.
400lbs-86lb birth weight=314lbs÷60 days=5.2lbs per day gain. If that average daily gain held up for normal pre-wean period, each bull would wean at an astounding 1048lbs at 185 days.
Even taking into consideration the excellent heterosis of that f1 cross, it's just not feasible to believe it--at 60 days anyway.
$1200 for a 2 month old calf? No way would I pay it--too much risk at that age.

Either the seller is trying to take advantage of the prospective buyer's inexperience or as jhm said, the seller really doesn't know the true age or weight of the bull calves.

 

[Latestarter]

Someone paid 650K for a bull? That is simply astounding...

 

[cjc]

What I do when buying cows is I look at the latest Market Report that is posted by our local auction. That will tell you what they sold for at the last auction. At the last auction in my area these type of calves sold for $25-$400 CWT (per 100lbs). For two 2 month old bull calves that are a cross breed I would be willing to pay about $100-$200. I would also make them band the calves before I brought them home, I would put that in my deal. I wouldn't be taking a 2 month old calf that wasn't weaned though and its too early to wean them yet. The only calf I ever had that turned into a bottle calf....she wasn't ready to be weaned and her mama was no longer ended up being VERY resistant to feeding. I was forcing food in her.

 

[Bigtime400]

Ok here you go. Everyone loves pictures. I went and looked at the bull calves today. They are the 2 to the right of the trough. On the left is the angus bull sire and the mother I guess is a longhorn/ angus / Hereford....

Ohh and speaking of age... I'm guessing they are closer to 5 or 6 months. (His wife knew better)

 

[OneFineAcre]

Someone paid 650K for a bull? That is simply astounding...

You would be surprised at the number sold in the 100's of thousands of dollars