Profit from suck calves

DJ98

Looking at buying calves to rear next spring, only about 10, what type of costs would I be looking at to rear them and what kind of return would I get when it would come to selling them, hope to sell around 18 months

Dozer1

unless you have time patience and luck I'd avoid calves like the plague.
looking at the price of handy weanlings I can't see how it would pay to rear them from calves.
Buy the weanlings and its only keep em fed and dosed alot easier if your working part time.

I know plenty on here are good at it but I've never had any joy rearing them.

Who2

Don’t waste your time no matter what teagasc say. There’s nothing in them if you do them right. You’ll buy decent runners for the price of a suck calf at the moment.

Dakota Dan

You'd buy weanlings this back end cheaper than calves next spring when you factor in rearing costs. It will cost you €200-300 to bring a calf to weanling to do them well excluding the cost of the calf.