Living entirely off of game meat.

[greatwhite]

Would they fall under.

http://www.ottawalivestockexchange.ca/

Fed Heifers, Dairy & Dairy Cross	# Head	Low $	High $	Avg $	Top $	Avg Wt
Over 1000 lbs	2	116.50	126.50	121.50	126.50	1,410

or

Cows	# Head	Low $	High $	Avg $	Top $	Avg Wt
All Weights	39	62.00	109.50	88.73	127.00	1,331

[seabast]

Pretty difficult to live off game meat for me (I couldn't eat deer every week and there are legal limits) but you can improve your life by also buying a farmed pig or beef.

This year I bought a 1/4 of a beef from a local farm. Black Angus, 15 month old, I got roughly 60lbs of steak and 60 lbs of ground meat for $700 (no water in the meat, a pound is a pound of "meat"). I wasn't expecting saving any money but I think I do after all. It was mostly grass feed so the meat is really strong, almost like lamb, so it's not for everybody, it took me some time to get used to it.

I bought a local farmed pig a couple of years ago, Berkshire, lots of fat it that breed so the meat was delicious but the pound of meat ended up been pretty expensive.

Anyway, it's tough eating for free these days, beside road kills.
Seabast

[fishy steve]

Would they fall under.

http://www.ottawalivestockexchange.ca/

Fed Heifers, Dairy & Dairy Cross	# Head	Low $	High $	Avg $	Top $	Avg Wt
Over 1000 lbs	2	116.50	126.50	121.50	126.50	1,410

or

Cows	# Head	Low $	High $	Avg $	Top $	Avg Wt
All Weights	39	62.00	109.50	88.73	127.00	1,331

yes... heifers are females though, so the milkers, steers are castrated males, which is your best bet for meat, and bulls are obviosly bulls... ive yet to figure out on the auction websites what just plain cows are, must just be the older stock that dont really fit under the other catagories as you will see on there as the cows get up over a 1000 lbs the price gets pretty low per lb, in the ones you show the lowest price was a $1.165 per lb, as i said early that farmer would have bin better off to sell it to you at $1 per lb and not had to pay auction fees, trucking etc. so he likely only made like 80 cents/lb at the auction...

[fishy steve]

i like keadys auction website, it shows the the "by the head stats" when you see a C it is cents, so 146 C would be $1.46/lb, when you see a H it means whole i guess so when you see 146 H it sold for $146 for the cow

http://www.keadylivestock.com/catalogue.html

[old243]

steve in reference to keady prices , C would refer to 100 pound .H would mean head, or 1 animal. This example would probably be a Holstein bull calf , about a week old or less.
bclf is bull calf , hclf is heifer calf, ons refers to overnight stand, the animal had no feed or water since the previous afternoon, the buyers will give more per pound for an empty animal, they don't want to pay for cow manure. Farm folk have their own lingo. old243

[Sudsee]

Yes Old243 is correct. The H would mean Head and the C would mean 100 weight I believe in this case. In the above reference the top table would be for dairy stock (replacement heifers, milking cows and milking cow crosses) and the prices would be per 100 weight. The bottom table labelled just cows would be dairy cows that are now cull cows and that is why they are cheaper. They are dairy cows that no longer produce or were culled due to breeding or production issues and will soon be in your mcdonald's hamburger. As far as young Holstein and Jersey bull calves most will be bought off of farm for the $150-200 range (higher now because veal prices are high). They will be taken at 3-5 days old after hopefully receiving colostrum from the mother. If you are going this route be sure the calf got colostrum or health and growth rates will suffer. A red veal calf right now will be raised from 5 days old up to 700lbs (6ish months) on corn and a protein/mineral supplement and then sold back to auction for slaughter or for somebody else to finish off as beef (over 1000lbs). Hope that helps.

[greatwhite]

Last time I bought a dairy cross was around 2005 think I paid back then approx .45 cents a pound.

[Greenhorn]

Buy the calves in the spring,than butcher in the fall.finish them off with corn.sell one it will pay for all the feed. I never bought any meat from 95 - 2013. Hunted Ontario , Michigan and Ohio for venison . Raised turkey,ducks,geese and chickens. Veggies and fruit were bought from the market cheap for freezing and canning. Killed turkey's and geese on the farm too.i ran 2.5 upright freezers and two fridges.

[greatwhite]

So how are you finding NB. Did u do any Salmon or get out for Mackerel down on the coast? Black or Beaver harbor is where I use to fish for Mackerel. Clams should be better this year since the weather has been a bit cooler. I hear these days u need a license to dig your own clams.

Buy the calves in the spring,than butcher in the fall.finish them off with corn.sell one it will pay for all the feed. I never bought any meat from 95 - 2013. Hunted Ontario , Michigan and Ohio for venison . Raised turkey,ducks,geese and chickens. Veggies and fruit were bought from the market cheap for freezing and canning. Killed turkey's and geese on the farm too.i ran 2.5 upright freezers and two fridges.

[fishy steve]

steve in reference to keady prices , C would refer to 100 pound .H would mean head, or 1 animal. This example would probably be a Holstein bull calf , about a week old or less.
bclf is bull calf , hclf is heifer calf, ons refers to overnight stand, the animal had no feed or water since the previous afternoon, the buyers will give more per pound for an empty animal, they don't want to pay for cow manure. Farm folk have their own lingo. old243

yes so 145 for 100 lbs. so 145 divided by 100 will give you the price per lb... so 1.45