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Ok, so if winter housing is an issue for large animals, and I can only keep two cows anyway, maybe there is a better way to get my "cattle fix" I figure each cow is going to cost at least a thousand dollars by first calf. I can't keep the calves through the next winter so would be selling them...

This might be a very viable idea. There are retired dairy farmers that board heifers, and would probably board beef cattle as well. They charge 2.50 per day including forage. They are tie barns too.

There is no reason I can't have the best of both worlds really. They can be is stalls like the oxen I pictured at night and during the storms and I can turn then out into a corral in the day time or at least an hour a day sort of thing for exercise.

I would still feed hay and or silage in the winter, it would just be fed in the barn. That way I can roll the bales off the trailer into the barn. It is pretty hard to get round bales into a feeder outside if I don't have a tractor. They would be out to pasture in the summer time. We don't...

What size run in shed and corral would be needed for two cows? If I have to go that way, I might not be able to keep them at all, but we will see.

I guess there aren't any ranches in New brunswick. There are some dairy herds that have 3-400 but they are all housed inside freestall Barns. There are a some beef herds where they have a hundred or so cows one of them that I know of has no barn. Most big herds make their own forage so they...

I am planning to provide shelter.

Or perhaps a set up like this oxen stall set up might work well for a couple of beef cows.

https://smallfarmersjournal.com/the-milk-and-human-kindness-plans-for-an-old-style-wooden-stanchion-floor/ I found an article about how they use to build a stanchion barn with wooden platforms and frame and steel stanchions. Maybe I can build something like this if I can find some steel...

How would you house to cows? I live in southern nb Canada, so winter is a real thing. There are lots of people around here that leave their cattle out all winter, but they have tractors to move snow and feed them, and I do not have those things. That is why I want to keep them under a roof...

Thank_you for the information. My heifer is only little so I have lots of time to learn ab out nurse cows. Once my heiefer goes to pasture I will have all summer to build her some proper accommodations.

Ok<I wondered how hard it would be to get the cow to take an extra calf, or two. What techniques did you find worked best? did you give the calves some feed too so that when they weaned they were ready to eat it well?

OK, thanks for the help Sounds easy enough when you say it fast. lol I was going to buy two beef / Holstein cross heifers but decided it was too expensive, so I will start with one. I figure in order to make one cow pay for herself, I need a bit of a unique management system to increase the...

Hi Everyone, I see lots of talk about nurse cows, but many of the topics are older and I am not sure if I can ask questions there or not, as some of those people may have moved on. I have purchased an Angus/Holstein Cross heifer and I am hoping to raise her as a "nurse cow". I am planning to...

can just anyone buy "knock out drops"?

Hook my wife is the expert cat castrator. She will pick up an old tom, give him a very small sub-q shot of "knock out drops" and cut him....take him back and lay him back under the same bush he had been sleeping under. When he finally wakes up all he does is like his butt and wonder what's...

viewtopic.php?uid=21397&f=8&t=85570&start=0 From what I can find, the link above seems to be the post that you are referring to. I ask a couple of questions over there just to clarify a couple of things. I Guess when I searched before I didn't find it, because it didn't reference J Lents...

When you say that the bull is continued to be bred to his Relatives? Do you breed him to relatives other than his half sisters? If you do, How do you keep track of the percentage of blood of the original sire? I guess the answer to the above question might answer this one too, but when you...

No one has an opinion of Mr Lents Breeding Plan? I am wondering something, if it is the basis of line breeding and the way that the old timers use to do it, and the way that it should be done to keep the percentage of blood of any one animal under 50 % ,........ Then Why is it such a...

[/quote I have been studying Linebreeding and closed flocks for a while now. I am not really interested in starting with the parent/offspring matings, so Mr Lents work is intriguing to me. However, I can't seem to learn what he does after those first half sibling matings. Would someone be...