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    Need your small operation reccomendation.

    my vote is on steers...get quicker cash flow turn around...put self feeders out...with hay and let em go
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    OK here goes

    I gain around 300 bucks a head buy selling it direct to customers and only thing more it takes is callin people to sell it and then sending bills...plus the locker plant is closer than the sale barn...id say its worth 300 bucks a head to do it
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    Attention!! Please Read

    im not being smart but i dont follow you...same convo in different place...whats the reason...not questioning you i just dont follow...i can assume because you dont want it said here people take it elsewhere
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    Cant believe this is a bull!!

    you saying you drove by or you sayin that is your uncles place
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    Cant believe this is a bull!!

    PASTURE...looks like dry lot to me...we all no why the place is forsale
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    Shouldnt salebarns identify "Freemartins"?

    From my thoughts and opinions and experiences here are my thoughts...Our neighbors run aroun 80 cows and bought nearly all of them through sale barns(ive gone with them to pick them up) and have some very good cattle some of the best calves around our area I dont know of them havin a single cow...
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    finishing out beef question

    12 lbs of corn, 1 lb 38% pellets, 1 lb SBM, and .25 lbs potassium mineral mix with 10 lbs of silage and 5 lbs of oat hay honestly best meat ive ever had but also can tell a difference between each calf so its in genetics to
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    Mud in corral is almost deep enough to drown!

    We have sands in the subsoil but where i have my fat calves is finer soils on top and its so stinking muddy its worse than march out there ive had the loader out scraping it back and haulin in sand from the gravel pit but the sand just gets stomped in and the calves just work up more mud in a...
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    holstein steers

    Friend of mine takes em from bottle to finish....i take beef from 500-700lbs to finish. Buy em cheap, feed em cheap, sell em hi....you wont get rich but you should do alright. Youd pry be better off taking them to finish...just remember locker plants arnt looking for 1500 lb steers they want...
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    trespasers

    In Indiana if you have a no trespassing sign on your property you are not liable. But like others have said theyd find some way to sue you...ridiculous....we had a guy ask permission to go hunting we told him no and then opening morning my grandpa was walking out to the stand and looked up and...
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    ***What SHould I Do***

    dont let em bother ya...150-200 head thorugh out the year running on a large number of cares i would assume if they dont come up all at one time cause they are grazing how could you count them. Shell come around sooner or later winter has to be gettin close i dont know what kinda of winter you...
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    ***What SHould I Do***

    just out of curiosity how long has this cow been out and how many head do you have
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    Fast Money

    5 years on truck
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    Fast Money

    I know theres no need to preach to the choir but obviously there are some people out there that think farmers are rich just cause they have new trucks and everything. The way our taxing system is set up you have to buy somethign every year inorder to not pay a bunch of income tax and when you...
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    Fast Money

    good cash flow buy calves sell them as freezer beef make pretty good money and good for cash flow big investment but good return in just a few months
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    sharing fence cost/neighbor

    With friendly neighbors it could work but an old timer and a someone like that other guy it obviously doesnt work. Plus it pry didnt help that he just sent him a bill. That kinda fires me up thats absolutely ridiculous whos he think he is just stoppin into the country side and acting like hes...
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    Angus/Charolais

    thanks for the info guys
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    Angus/Charolais

    what if you are gonna finish your own around here everyone has feddish with angus...including me...but i believe some planned cross breeding could work better
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    MONEY IDEA

    Do a business plan...figure out how much you will have to feed them and take care of them and how much it will take to buy them. Just get good looking cows and sounds like your bull is already taken care of. If you are selling them as bred cows I would say your EPD's are less important because...
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    Angus/Charolais

    What does everyone think of Crossing Angus with Charlois? Good calves...tender...fast growers
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