Southern Indiana... freezing water concerns will be greatly alleviated over what we have here in MN. But it still can and will freeze obviously.
Comment has been made to invest in some sort of handling facility... I agree that this should pretty much always be a priority if you're going to have livestock... You have to have some way to do what you need to do with them safely... BUT, with so few animals, you can overspend yourself into the poorhouse REAL quick.
Being able to do what you need to do is all about reasonably safe "containment", so the animal can't move around too much, and so you dont get hurt. A lane made from just a couple of simple welded up "frames" with a couple of corral panels chained inside of them will do wonders for you... (two vertical parallel pipes welded with flat iron across the bottom and channel iron over the top to make a rectangular frame about 30" wide between verticals... width depending on how big of animals you'll be dealing with, but 30" will give you about a 28" lane... big enough for most any you'll ever have, and good for yearlings too... and too wide is much worse than a little too narrow... inches really matter here). 2-12' panels gets you a pretty good functional lane, for not alot of money. Get TALL panels (5'6" minimum), so the critters aren't tempted to try to jump. If they do jump on the lighter-weight panels, they'll be junk in a hurry... usually the first time it happens. Best for your money IMO are the heavy 24' panels (600-800# each)... but you'll need a loader to move 'em. If you can find a decent used headgate (I like how the Priefert 91 functions), just mount that on one end... could even be mounted to one of your "frames". Use a rump pole stuck through ahead of the verticals in your panels for "anti-back" stop. A few more portable corral panels to make an appropriately sized "catch pen" (you can always add more to make it bigger as your herd grows) that the lane runs off of, and you should be good. Maybe you can find some good used panels on Facebook Marketplace, or Craigslist. I bought my squeeze chute that way. But you don't NEED a squeeze chute for just a few animals... a lane like described above with a headgate will do most everything you'll need it to do.
If you're serious about "selling them for profit", be very careful about how much you think you need to invest in "infrastructure". Beyond that, I advise you to NOT think "PERMANENTLY INSTALLED" facilities... use stuff that can be considered PORTABLE/freestanding. If you want to sell it, it IS saleable. If you buy the right kind of stuff that everybody wants, it will always have value. Permanently installed infrastructure has 0 value to someone else, unless you're selling the place, and even then it will be minimal, and probably not built the way the next guy will want it. Portable/freestanding means you can change and expand as your plans/herd does. You can even sell it and "trade up".
I'm in MN... currently running almost 400 head, and my cattle never ever get into a barn, not even anywhere near one. Horses either. I DO have one, and it's a pretty good one actually... it was here when I bought the place, but I don't put the cattle in it. It's mostly used by the cats. The cattle get fed hay in winter right out on the pastures/fields. Water is out there in the field too. They have some tree lines that they can get behind to get out of the wind. I don't ever have to haul manure. I don't have lots to clean. I remember when I used to think you HAD to have a barn if you had cattle... I grew up here, running about the same number that I have now or maybe even a few less, but they were ALL kept in a barn all winter. And we struggled with and tended to sick cattle all winter too... mostly because of conditions caused by them being shut up in that barn. I wonder now why we were doing all that work... It was because we thought they had to be in a barn, and we had to carry everything to 'em, and then carry everything away from them again! WHY? ...Because that's how it's always been done!
Might need to invest in a privacy fence around the perimeter too, to avoid having to put up with all the other cowboys in the area making fun of your herd... unless you're immune/vaccinated against that sort of thing.
