I took a trip to Australia so I can learn about the agricultural industry practices. My friend Carson Howard has a small cattle operation, along with Fallow deer and Sheep. They raise Angus and Angus/Limmousine X and Angus/Feresian X cattle. Calves are born in the Spring, which is the months of August, September and October in Australia.
By the months of May and June, they are sold as feeders or finished cattle weighing and end up weighing around 650-800 pounds. Most ranchers pull their bulls during the breeding season after 90 days. The day before I arrived at the Howard place, they gathered a trailer load of calves from the pasture that were still on the cow. They sorted the calves that looked like a good size to sell, and loaded 16 calves for the sale in a stock truck (like the old grain trucks we have in the US) which was about a 20 foot long trailer.
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