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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 210599" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>I think any of us are capable of figuring every possible cost in a way that says that there is no way possible have a cow and she ever pay for herself. It is easy to assign costs to cows that you would incur anyway, whether you had the cows or not and say it costs you that for the upkeep of the cow. Many people talk about the costs of fuel to go get feed. There are very few trips to get feed that arent also involved with groceries or other regular life expenses. Alot of the fence costs are the same whether you have 0 animals or 10 or 100. You have to have fences to keep other peoples stock out and to keep people from driving off the road onto your property. If you didnt have the cattle, would you keep the sprouts and weeds out of the pasture? (I think you would) Most of us would go to the cattle auction at times just for enjoyment, even if we didnt take an animal to sell it. How many animals you have also makes a difference. For instance a calf creep feeder has been mentioned. A one-sided 600 lb feeder costs 400 dollars. It will last 15 years. If I have 20 calves use that feeder each year for 15 years, it costs 1 dollar and 33 cents per calf. If I have 1 calf per year, it costs 26 dollars and 67 cents per calf. In theory, the more animals you can run through your operation per year, the less per animal it takes for expenses. However, in reality, we all know it doesnt always work that way and it isnt very often the most profitable. I know we can take every thing we spend during the year and divide it up among how many cows we own and come up with a dollar figure----I just dont know that it is entirely accurate to assign all that to the cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 210599, member: 1150"] I think any of us are capable of figuring every possible cost in a way that says that there is no way possible have a cow and she ever pay for herself. It is easy to assign costs to cows that you would incur anyway, whether you had the cows or not and say it costs you that for the upkeep of the cow. Many people talk about the costs of fuel to go get feed. There are very few trips to get feed that arent also involved with groceries or other regular life expenses. Alot of the fence costs are the same whether you have 0 animals or 10 or 100. You have to have fences to keep other peoples stock out and to keep people from driving off the road onto your property. If you didnt have the cattle, would you keep the sprouts and weeds out of the pasture? (I think you would) Most of us would go to the cattle auction at times just for enjoyment, even if we didnt take an animal to sell it. How many animals you have also makes a difference. For instance a calf creep feeder has been mentioned. A one-sided 600 lb feeder costs 400 dollars. It will last 15 years. If I have 20 calves use that feeder each year for 15 years, it costs 1 dollar and 33 cents per calf. If I have 1 calf per year, it costs 26 dollars and 67 cents per calf. In theory, the more animals you can run through your operation per year, the less per animal it takes for expenses. However, in reality, we all know it doesnt always work that way and it isnt very often the most profitable. I know we can take every thing we spend during the year and divide it up among how many cows we own and come up with a dollar figure----I just dont know that it is entirely accurate to assign all that to the cows. [/QUOTE]
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