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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 3859"><p>If this is your first foray into raising cattle, you might just get a few head of older cows. It is pretty hard to start out with various age groups of female bovines and learn everything you need to know to get heifers ready to breed and calving. Your starting numbers are pretty high, unless you know what you are doing. Have you considered how you are going to shelter, feed, care for.... what buildings do you have to work with... talk to people in your area and find out why they are raising what they are raising. Have a plan for what you want to do with your cattle. Are you going after breeding sales, beef sales, what? Are you really set up to keep a bull... can't run him with the herd all year long, or you will have him breeding his six month old daughters, and you can't breed him back to his daughters. If you have all the chutes, alleys, barns, sheds, equipment you need to run an operation of the size you are suggesting, I can only assume you know more than your question reveals. In our case, we had made a decision to never use a horse to work the cattle.... means we have to do more work with each animal to make them manageable by a human on foot. We started with four six month heifers and a steer for our first year's meat. I made a lot of mistakes as witnessed by the beginner's board, but I sure learned a lot with four heifers. This year, we will have just three mama cows, their four babies and some platter beef on the hoof... we won't be breeding six animals until the spring/summer of 2003... in the meantime, we will continue learning and improving our situation to handle the various age groups you end up with when you have heifers growing for replacement, calves being weaned, cows in gestation, and steers fattening. Does any of this help? There are certainly more professional people on the list. I have gotten a lot of help from my feed store man... the hay guy... and a few ranchers on the road between our place and town. You aren't alone and cattle people LOVE to see others succeed.</p><p></p><p> <a href="mailto:Sailor_One@hotmail.com">Sailor_One@hotmail.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 3859"] If this is your first foray into raising cattle, you might just get a few head of older cows. It is pretty hard to start out with various age groups of female bovines and learn everything you need to know to get heifers ready to breed and calving. Your starting numbers are pretty high, unless you know what you are doing. Have you considered how you are going to shelter, feed, care for.... what buildings do you have to work with... talk to people in your area and find out why they are raising what they are raising. Have a plan for what you want to do with your cattle. Are you going after breeding sales, beef sales, what? Are you really set up to keep a bull... can't run him with the herd all year long, or you will have him breeding his six month old daughters, and you can't breed him back to his daughters. If you have all the chutes, alleys, barns, sheds, equipment you need to run an operation of the size you are suggesting, I can only assume you know more than your question reveals. In our case, we had made a decision to never use a horse to work the cattle.... means we have to do more work with each animal to make them manageable by a human on foot. We started with four six month heifers and a steer for our first year's meat. I made a lot of mistakes as witnessed by the beginner's board, but I sure learned a lot with four heifers. This year, we will have just three mama cows, their four babies and some platter beef on the hoof... we won't be breeding six animals until the spring/summer of 2003... in the meantime, we will continue learning and improving our situation to handle the various age groups you end up with when you have heifers growing for replacement, calves being weaned, cows in gestation, and steers fattening. Does any of this help? There are certainly more professional people on the list. I have gotten a lot of help from my feed store man... the hay guy... and a few ranchers on the road between our place and town. You aren't alone and cattle people LOVE to see others succeed. [email=Sailor_One@hotmail.com]Sailor_One@hotmail.com[/email] [/QUOTE]
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