Things You'll Need
- Production records
- Adequate pasture
Instructions
Produce breeding bulls and cows to sell to other cattle raisers. This requires maintenance of production records on your composite breed such as calving weights, calving percentages, calving ease, weaning weights and yearling weights. Good herd production history is expected by breeding cattle buyers.
Market weaned calves through auction sales to people known as preconditioners. The preconditioners buy calves weighing approximately 450 to 500 pounds, put them on grass pastures to add approximately 300 pounds and sell them to feed yards.
Precondition the calves yourself if you have sufficient pasture. By preconditioning, you will produce more income from your calves and hopefully, more profit.