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| A short tale of two calves "here". Both heifers. One an all black angus/Holstein cross. The other was a much more dairy type heifer calf. It had a little brown color to it but by all accounts way more Holstein than the angus cross. It would have never passed for a beef calf.
Fed the same and together their whole lives, in the same pen and all.
Angus cross looked awesome, to the point I was almost going to make it freezer beef for ourselves. The other animal, not so much. It looked just ok for a fat dairy type heifer.
I normally sell live weight and knew I would take a bath on the holstein dairy type heifer selling live weight.
Got to the private treaty sale barn and was offered $1.12 live for the angus cross heifer, and like $.95 live for the Holstein one. Said screw it and told them to sell them both grade/yield instead. Thought maybe the angus would go prime, and thought I couldn't lose much on the Holstein.
On grade and yield, both animals brought exactly the same per pound.
In the end, I lost money sell the angus cross grade/yield and made more money selling the more dairy type animal that way.
I'm sure it doesn't always work that way for Holstein/angus crosses, but that's how it worked "here".
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Holstein/Angus cross
