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<blockquote data-quote="rocfarm" data-source="post: 1765980" data-attributes="member: 42715"><p>Or spend $4000 on a cheap herd and breed upwards over time. Lots of poorer boys have gotten into the market that way<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />. So far, including feed, I'm at 4470. Will cost about 1000 for a young black bull for a grand total of a 9-head herd. 6 of them will be breedable in Dec (although three more of them could already be bred if they bred back before I got them). Including tubs, I think I should be at 6000 expenses by next fall. The risk is in how many cows/calves I lose, I think, and this persistent la Nina.</p><p></p><p>Of course, I'm not adding in fuel, water troughs, or the four weeks I just spent cutting fence stays out of cedar and patching fence, working on the road, the 800 I spent for the remedy ultra and diesel when I was spraying 60 acres of mesquite for a week, or the 40 hours I spent on my tractor to fix my two ponds. I guess I'll call the fence building a hobby pursuit, and the water trough installations, mesquite spraying, and pond fixes wildlife management. The road maintenance and tractor expenses can go under real estate investment. There. Now I can say I still have a chance to make money on cattle!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rocfarm, post: 1765980, member: 42715"] Or spend $4000 on a cheap herd and breed upwards over time. Lots of poorer boys have gotten into the market that way;). So far, including feed, I’m at 4470. Will cost about 1000 for a young black bull for a grand total of a 9-head herd. 6 of them will be breedable in Dec (although three more of them could already be bred if they bred back before I got them). Including tubs, I think I should be at 6000 expenses by next fall. The risk is in how many cows/calves I lose, I think, and this persistent la Nina. Of course, I’m not adding in fuel, water troughs, or the four weeks I just spent cutting fence stays out of cedar and patching fence, working on the road, the 800 I spent for the remedy ultra and diesel when I was spraying 60 acres of mesquite for a week, or the 40 hours I spent on my tractor to fix my two ponds. I guess I‘ll call the fence building a hobby pursuit, and the water trough installations, mesquite spraying, and pond fixes wildlife management. The road maintenance and tractor expenses can go under real estate investment. There. Now I can say I still have a chance to make money on cattle!😂 [/QUOTE]
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