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<blockquote data-quote="sackshowcattle" data-source="post: 925767" data-attributes="member: 4065"><p>My parents helped me buy my herd when I was 15. I have ran the herd for 18 years now. I was in the same boat as you and this is how it worked for me. I did everything while in high school. In college I had to come home on the weekends and farm for dad all summer for feed in the winter and to off set my parents time to take care of them during the school year. After school was out saved up enough to buy my own place and while saving had to work for dad when not working to help put up the feed to feed them. While I was in college I picked bulls to make replacements and sold the bottom end and all steers at the sale barn. Some of the better calves have been sold to friends or kids in the area to show. I ended up running it more like a commercial operation and now its proving to be the best move. I have sound functional cattle that can survive on pasture and hay in winter and decent BW on the cows. They are high percentage maines that can be crossed with top club calf bulls. I dont have and shouldn't have a lot of the calving and structure problems that a lot of the clubby world has due to multiple generations of crossed up messes or the problem with the small gene pool of most bulls going back to a select few genetics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sackshowcattle, post: 925767, member: 4065"] My parents helped me buy my herd when I was 15. I have ran the herd for 18 years now. I was in the same boat as you and this is how it worked for me. I did everything while in high school. In college I had to come home on the weekends and farm for dad all summer for feed in the winter and to off set my parents time to take care of them during the school year. After school was out saved up enough to buy my own place and while saving had to work for dad when not working to help put up the feed to feed them. While I was in college I picked bulls to make replacements and sold the bottom end and all steers at the sale barn. Some of the better calves have been sold to friends or kids in the area to show. I ended up running it more like a commercial operation and now its proving to be the best move. I have sound functional cattle that can survive on pasture and hay in winter and decent BW on the cows. They are high percentage maines that can be crossed with top club calf bulls. I dont have and shouldn't have a lot of the calving and structure problems that a lot of the clubby world has due to multiple generations of crossed up messes or the problem with the small gene pool of most bulls going back to a select few genetics. [/QUOTE]
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