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<blockquote data-quote="Lee VanRoss" data-source="post: 1740189" data-attributes="member: 40072"><p>With all due respect the answer to your question is, Yes <em>if </em>and No <em>because.........</em></p><p>One of the first questions you will be asked is where are you located? I would implore you not to respond to the request in any way.</p><p>There are over 200 million people world wide that have access to this site and not all of them are concerned with your welfare.</p><p>Your question interests me as I have been thinking along the same lines and have currentlty held back steers to potentially finish.</p><p>They will be a year old this April and weigh in the mid to high nines. They are 3/4 RA -1/4 Corriente to 100% RA with the potential</p><p>(I hope) to finish mid choice. </p><p>One of the first things you will encounter is the amount of manure generated in a feedlot condition. Do you have facilities and equipment</p><p>to handle it? I like to pile feedlot manure for year to give it time to kill germination of as much weed seed as possible from any hay fed.</p><p>More power to you if you have no weed seed. Next thing is separating steers from heifers if you have both and again this involves facilities.</p><p>I am not asking breed or color which will probably come up and I would rate the question right up there with what type of wood smoke</p><p>is coming from the neighbors chimney.</p><p>A lot will depend on what you are doing now such as, Do you rotational graze? Move every day? Let grass grow 35- 40 days before</p><p>letting them on it again? Do you cut hay more than once a year? Are you in an area where corn is readily available for growth or</p><p>purchase? (<em>don't answer here) </em>You will soon find that pellets and or +$7.00 corn add up in a hurry once you get up over a 1000 lb</p><p>and a 3% ration. Above all the economy of volume of scale will in all probability hold trump card. It is hard to compete with a</p><p>5000 head feed lot on a cost per lb per day basis with a feed bunk and a 5 gallon bucket. Try not to become focused on a single </p><p>stream of revenue. This might be a good time to bring hair sheep into the equation (which I have not done) mostly because I</p><p>am unfamiliar with them and time remaining. I wish you well....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lee VanRoss, post: 1740189, member: 40072"] With all due respect the answer to your question is, Yes [I]if [/I]and No [I]because.........[/I] One of the first questions you will be asked is where are you located? I would implore you not to respond to the request in any way. There are over 200 million people world wide that have access to this site and not all of them are concerned with your welfare. Your question interests me as I have been thinking along the same lines and have currentlty held back steers to potentially finish. They will be a year old this April and weigh in the mid to high nines. They are 3/4 RA -1/4 Corriente to 100% RA with the potential (I hope) to finish mid choice. One of the first things you will encounter is the amount of manure generated in a feedlot condition. Do you have facilities and equipment to handle it? I like to pile feedlot manure for year to give it time to kill germination of as much weed seed as possible from any hay fed. More power to you if you have no weed seed. Next thing is separating steers from heifers if you have both and again this involves facilities. I am not asking breed or color which will probably come up and I would rate the question right up there with what type of wood smoke is coming from the neighbors chimney. A lot will depend on what you are doing now such as, Do you rotational graze? Move every day? Let grass grow 35- 40 days before letting them on it again? Do you cut hay more than once a year? Are you in an area where corn is readily available for growth or purchase? ([I]don't answer here) [/I]You will soon find that pellets and or +$7.00 corn add up in a hurry once you get up over a 1000 lb and a 3% ration. Above all the economy of volume of scale will in all probability hold trump card. It is hard to compete with a 5000 head feed lot on a cost per lb per day basis with a feed bunk and a 5 gallon bucket. Try not to become focused on a single stream of revenue. This might be a good time to bring hair sheep into the equation (which I have not done) mostly because I am unfamiliar with them and time remaining. I wish you well.... [/QUOTE]
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