I know nothing about the cattle business so I do not know how doable this is with a small pasture, but one of my good buddy's pow pow made a great living off of buying weak/sick/malnourished cattle for dirt cheap and basically nursing them back to health and beefing them up a lot then selling. Sounds more of something you would have to do after having plenty of experience around cattle but just a thought. good luck

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Posted by Camo Tiger 337

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Posted on 3/13/14 at 9:58 am to Merica

Mine pretty much did the same thing

. I never tried to get into it myself, but he did buy them sick or underweight and sell them once they're 100%. He also did the same thing with air conditioners and washers/dryers. Mainly air conditioners as he put an ad in the thrifty nickel saying he'd buy any broken air conditioners for $12-24(old days, when he was way younger, 72 now). He made a killing off of that. Most of the time it was just the thermostat was too low

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Posted by Clyde Tipton

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Posted on 3/13/14 at 10:03 am to Merica

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I know nothing about the cattle business so I do not know how doable this is with a small pasture, but one of my good buddy's pow pow made a great living off of buying weak/sick/malnourished cattle for dirt cheap and basically nursing them back to health and beefing them up a lot then selling.

I know a guy who did this too. Cows are bringing a lot of money these days and look to go higher.

The guy was telling me he used to buy sick/weak calves for like $20 buck at the salebarn and nurse them back. He said one came through a few months ago and he thought here's a good opportunity. I'll bid on him.

The little bastard bought $250.

He said, frick that.