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re: Any of you baws ever had a cow or two
Posted on 4/21/23 at 6:34 pm to Gee Grenouille
Posted on 4/21/23 at 6:34 pm to Gee Grenouille
Feeder steers if the fence is good are maybe a few hours a week and most of that is just fricking around.
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Posted on 4/23/23 at 5:16 pm to LRB1967
Want them for beef. Just get them big enough to slaughter then buy another one. I’m not dealing with breeding cows.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 5:31 pm to Gee Grenouille
Start small with two one year old meat calves. Buy from a farm, not a sale and make sure they are already bucket trained. Buy in the spring and raise over the summer and send to slaughter in the fall. You will get enough meat back to share with friends/family or privately sale.
This will give you a lower cost/commitment opportunity to see if it is something you want to get more heavily involved with.
This will give you a lower cost/commitment opportunity to see if it is something you want to get more heavily involved with.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 5:31 pm to BigBinBR
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have a friend who has cows. He jokes that he is fence builder who has cows on the side. Apparently they just lean and push on stuff until they get out.
I helped repair a fence once. It ain't easy work and is constant with horses and cows. Bigger the property, the more the headache.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 6:48 pm to Gee Grenouille
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10 acre plot
Go with the 10+ acre plot of land. For sure get away from the cities and the suburbs.
Trust me, you'll thank me for that advice when Bidenflation raises the price of eggs to
$25/doz and $35/gallon for milk.
This post was edited on 4/24/23 at 9:09 am
Posted on 4/23/23 at 6:50 pm to armsdealer
quote:my grandparent's leased the pastures next to the house I lived in (grandparents also owned it) when I was first married. The man who leased it and I saw each other a lot. He was always repairing fences. Sometimes the cows would get out. Nothing like being woke up to mooing as the herd cruises in a circle around your house. Good times.
do a lease share agreement on someone elses farm.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 6:55 pm to Gee Grenouille
Owning cows can be a lot like having stupid problem children. You can never leave them and they can be very demanding on the best of days. Then a storm will come through, they will go under a tree, lightning can strike and just that quickly, you have to bury one or more cows as they quickly swell up. In very cold weather, they will need a place protected from the weather, or (for an example) their tail will freeze and break off.
Got an evening planned. That will be the night one of them finds a way to get out of the pasture and down the road.
They do taste good, though.
Got an evening planned. That will be the night one of them finds a way to get out of the pasture and down the road.
They do taste good, though.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 6:57 pm to MeridianDog
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Owning cows can be a lot like having stupid problem children
accurate AF
Posted on 4/23/23 at 7:46 pm to Gee Grenouille
I have 6 cows on 20 acres (18 of it pastured). I move them to a different pasture every other day or so. Takes about 30 minutes or so.
I take one to the sale every year and keep half the meat as payment.
I take one to the sale every year and keep half the meat as payment.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:08 pm to 777Tiger
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find out how many you need to get an ag exemption, that’s how many to get
This is the easier option. You’re welcome
Wildlife exemption
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:12 pm to Gee Grenouille
If you decide to raise and feed out a couple butcher calves every year don't let your wife and kids name them.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:29 pm to OK Roughneck
That was my pawpaw's rule also!-
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:43 pm to Gee Grenouille
I had quite a few when I was young had to sell out due to life and work.
Tips: Start with feeder calves do as mention buy private. Sale barn calves have their own set of problems and you need to know what you’re looking at.
When you buy, buy two they tend to do better in pairs.
Don’t buy springing heifers or cow calf pairs. Pain in the arse, risk, and at some point you will need a bull or pay to have an AI.
Tips: Start with feeder calves do as mention buy private. Sale barn calves have their own set of problems and you need to know what you’re looking at.
When you buy, buy two they tend to do better in pairs.
Don’t buy springing heifers or cow calf pairs. Pain in the arse, risk, and at some point you will need a bull or pay to have an AI.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:58 pm to madamsquirrel
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That was my pawpaw's rule also!-
Yup I don't process any that I own because they might have known them. Most of the time they don't but I've given up and just buy beef at the store.
Posted on 4/24/23 at 9:43 am to Tyga Woods
Who TF is out at 1 am to notice the cows?
Posted on 4/24/23 at 9:55 am to Gee Grenouille
Ive had carnal relations with some pretty big ole gals but callin' em cows would be disrespectful....
Posted on 4/24/23 at 10:00 am to Gee Grenouille
my sex life is none of your bidness.
Posted on 4/24/23 at 10:05 am to trentw
Well my neighbor noticed when my cow showed up on his front porch. Hundreds of acres of grass, and he just had to have potted geraniums.
Posted on 4/24/23 at 10:37 am to Gee Grenouille
I have 65 cows. 4hrs Friday afternoon and 4hrs Sunday afternoon and that takes care of most all required chores during the year. Ryegrass season and pasture bushhogging usually takes me 4 nights of tractor work each (5pm-11pm), once a year. Vaccine and castration round-up once a year.
I manage 178 acres and 65 head of cattle, on side. It really doesn't take that much work. Still work a normal job and have 3 youngish kids. Sometimes kids help sometimes they don't but I always save Saturdays for kid activities.
I manage 178 acres and 65 head of cattle, on side. It really doesn't take that much work. Still work a normal job and have 3 youngish kids. Sometimes kids help sometimes they don't but I always save Saturdays for kid activities.
This post was edited on 4/24/23 at 10:41 am
Posted on 4/24/23 at 11:28 am to OK Roughneck
Funny story time:
The wife's (MHNBPF) dad had two yearling steers on their place. He would call them and then when they came to the fence, he would feed them corn from a bucket. One day he was scratching one of them and talking to it as it stood beside the fence. A snooty neighbor lady was with my MIL watching and she said, "I can't believe you stand there petting that poor creature when you plan on killing it!"
My FIL, smiled and said, "I'm just saying T-bone, T-bone Porterhouse as I move my hand."
The wife's (MHNBPF) dad had two yearling steers on their place. He would call them and then when they came to the fence, he would feed them corn from a bucket. One day he was scratching one of them and talking to it as it stood beside the fence. A snooty neighbor lady was with my MIL watching and she said, "I can't believe you stand there petting that poor creature when you plan on killing it!"
My FIL, smiled and said, "I'm just saying T-bone, T-bone Porterhouse as I move my hand."
This post was edited on 4/24/23 at 11:30 am
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