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Can you breed healthy good condition heifers at 14 months old?

The guy I know buys good stock from locals. He pays a little more but sells for more also, I think it's important also to look at this as a business and not pets. I treat my cattle good and humane but when it's time for them to go they're gone. I like the idea of not running anything through the...

Anyone do this? I know a man that buys open heifers ready to breed around first of April and sells them as bred heifers about 5-7 months later. He's almost been doubling his money as he doesn't do it in the winter months and doesn't have to have hay. He leases bulls so he doesn't have anything...

Are you talking about this setup: http://www.fastline.com/v100/2012-Stur- ... b650c.aspx If so that's way too expensive as we can build it much cheaper than that with what we already have to work with. But, thank you for the suggestion

I know it doesn't make sense to most of you and you might be right. -It has a good hay barn -It has another more traditional barn where we will put working facilities with electricity -It has yr. round good access road -It's a 1/2 mile from where I live -yr. round natural creek, no flooding -I...

I'll try to be brief. A wealthy frined of my family wants me to come up with a business plan for his 70 acres of pasture to make money with cattle. He isn't looking to get rich as he already is but just to make a small profit or as much as reasonably possible. 1. 70 acres of pasture some creek...

There have been 23 cow/calf pairs on there for 10 years and they don't even make a dent. They almost graze yr. round but are given some hay in winter so as not to deplete the grass. It has been well taken care of from a grass standpoint and is cross-fenced into 4 even paddocks. It flooded in...

55 acres of good river bottom grass with all fencing, facilities and water in place. Stockers or cow/calf? I'm thinking long term also. Could probably hold 30-35 mama cows and I don't about stockers if I went that route. Thanks

We have a 3 week old calf with what appears to be coccidiosis. He has recently been accepted by another cow that just lost her calf as his mama wouldn't let him nurse and we locked her up twice a day for two weeks and he nursed that way. His foster mama is good to him and treats him as her own...

how many band and give a tetanus and how many band and don't give one? Just curious. We band and don't give a tetanus--just band and let em go.

Does anyone do this with this size herd? What kind of calving window should I expect? When would I put the bulls in, for how long and is two enough or three?

We have some bred heifers we bought that we're going to calve out. What do we need to have on hand besides patience and realistic expectations?

Well, too late I already did it. Oh well, if I don't get the job then God didn't want me to have it and life goes on.

Got a chance to maybe work at a local dairy PT and they're asking me about career objectives? I haven't thought about like that before--you think they're trying to weed out people or something? I was going to tell them to own my own beef cattle farm one day and maybe have some ownership in the...

I'm about to discuss the leasing agreement if I can get in touch with the owner.