Show PROPER HANDLING OF HEIFERS AS FEEDERS when fed along with steers will make just as profitable yield as male animals heifers heffers that are properly handled J in tile the feedlot can be e made just RS as good as steers say some of the cattle feeders who are noted tor for making some ot of the best stock offered on the markets it la is said by killers that heifers heffers hei fers when fed along with steers and it if ot of the right quality will ill make just as good a yield therefore ther eforo mak ing them worth just as much as the male animals this argument was recently substantiated when one bihn man marketed a drove of 30 head of angus yearlings yearnings year lings 19 steers and 11 heifers heffers which sold at 1140 in the pen the heifers heffers looked exactly as good as the steers and sold right along with the bunch it looks like a high price tor for some might think but being the same age and quality they were able to do as well and mature into tile the proper sort of beef animals it seems heifers heffers in the yearling class sell best in fact the larger proportion of those that are fed for beef are marketed at such age in the feed lot it need not be entirely a steer population because heifers heffers of the right sort should yield as large a profit providing they are the same bame grade as the steers they will gain just as fast making their cost of production no higher the product of this class of stock matches up well with steers when killed that Is why packers take them along at the same prices many feeders who have a surplus of female calves cash them for veal but it seems more money would be realized by fattening them and cashing for beet beef instead of at the early age |