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<blockquote data-quote="Running Arrow Bill" data-source="post: 42353" data-attributes="member: 9"><p>Dun's & cattle lady's advice is good. </p><p></p><p>Determine your lifestyle and take it from there. Assuming your infrastructure is already there for cattle management, that's probably 90% of the battle. A good start would be to have the livestock (sales) pay the taxes, feed, Vet costs & Rx, etc. After that, it takes volume production and sales to "earn a living." This is a lifestyle, not necessarily a profit-making, "good $$ lifestyle."</p><p></p><p>With our Longhorn cattle seedstock breeding/calving program, after 3 years of serious effort (with all our infrastructure in place and property paid for) we are just selling enough locally and out of state to pay for our feed, hay, utilities, and taxes...have other income to supplement our needs. We are retired from the 9-5 job scene and are 100% here and doing our thing. We are currently running about 30 head Longhorn seedstock, bulls for X-breed sales, and other. Have 7 registered TWH and Peruvian horses currently. Horse sales and demand are way down across the country...our horses are a "lifestyle"...no way we would sell any of them for the prices being paid at this point in time...horses are a "long term" investment....compared to cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Running Arrow Bill, post: 42353, member: 9"] Dun's & cattle lady's advice is good. Determine your lifestyle and take it from there. Assuming your infrastructure is already there for cattle management, that's probably 90% of the battle. A good start would be to have the livestock (sales) pay the taxes, feed, Vet costs & Rx, etc. After that, it takes volume production and sales to "earn a living." This is a lifestyle, not necessarily a profit-making, "good $$ lifestyle." With our Longhorn cattle seedstock breeding/calving program, after 3 years of serious effort (with all our infrastructure in place and property paid for) we are just selling enough locally and out of state to pay for our feed, hay, utilities, and taxes...have other income to supplement our needs. We are retired from the 9-5 job scene and are 100% here and doing our thing. We are currently running about 30 head Longhorn seedstock, bulls for X-breed sales, and other. Have 7 registered TWH and Peruvian horses currently. Horse sales and demand are way down across the country...our horses are a "lifestyle"...no way we would sell any of them for the prices being paid at this point in time...horses are a "long term" investment....compared to cattle. [/QUOTE]
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