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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1777529" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>For 3 days, I have typed a suggestion, then erased it, then typed it again, etc. Just didn't want to see the BS that would follow form a certain few. So let me say this: About 2002 or 2003, we had about quit raising Co orriente for roping and dogging and had been doing Corr x angus for team penning and sorting. Our last crop of Corr yearlings had 21 heifers in it.The steers we kept for roping practice. anyhow, there was this boy, about 17 or so, that had been hanging around with me fooling with horses since he was 8. He lived across the raod form me. He said " Mr. John, if I had the money I sure would like to buy those girls". So I told him I would sellthem to him for $300 each..$6300. He said I don;t have $63 dollars. So, I told him I was selling them to him on credit. After he weans their forst calves, he can pay me then! He was about to bust with joy. His grandma down the road still lived on the olfd home place..about 35-40 acres, with an old barn and some old fencing down in a few places. I told him to get my tractor and the stuff he needed to fix it ( He knew how...he'd been helping me with fence for 10 years) and get some of his buddies to help him, and we'd move those 21 calves over there. Only thin on the whole place was his 2 horses, in a 5 acre loft around the barn. He got the tractor after school on Friday, and Saturday evening he came over and said " We got the fence fixed!"LOL. We moved the heifers Sunday, and I took a Brangus bull over there and left it about 7 weeks. When the calves were 6 months old, we took my trailer and took them to the sale. 400-500 pounds, and they brought $600-$700. He paid me Monday when the bank opened, and know what he did with the rest? Next Saturday he went to the sale with me, and bought 5 black baldy cows. Next year he bought 10 baldie and angus cows, and a Brahma bull with the calf money. He had a great uncle that let him use his 53 acre pasture, in exchange for him keeping up the place, etc. In 5 years he had to start selling his Corrs to make room for his 70-cow black baldy herd! All bought and paid for with those Corr x calves. He is in his late 30's now, and has about all the pasture land rented up around my old home town. The boy does well with his f1black Brafords. I bet with all the pastures he rents, he has 400_ head now. and a pasture full of Brahma bulls. he is smart, too. He does what I used to do when I did cow/calf. He sells the hell out of the calves when he weans them...doesn't waste 2 years+ trying to raise heifers. He uses his calf money to buy more cows if he needs him. His f1 steer5s sell well too, because they are all black. </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, might be something to consider for your son. Low cost on the cows, no maintenance costs...in money or labor... on the cows, little if any feed costs, and his 1st calf crop will pay for the cows and still have profit left over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1777529, member: 40587"] For 3 days, I have typed a suggestion, then erased it, then typed it again, etc. Just didn't want to see the BS that would follow form a certain few. So let me say this: About 2002 or 2003, we had about quit raising Co orriente for roping and dogging and had been doing Corr x angus for team penning and sorting. Our last crop of Corr yearlings had 21 heifers in it.The steers we kept for roping practice. anyhow, there was this boy, about 17 or so, that had been hanging around with me fooling with horses since he was 8. He lived across the raod form me. He said " Mr. John, if I had the money I sure would like to buy those girls". So I told him I would sellthem to him for $300 each..$6300. He said I don;t have $63 dollars. So, I told him I was selling them to him on credit. After he weans their forst calves, he can pay me then! He was about to bust with joy. His grandma down the road still lived on the olfd home place..about 35-40 acres, with an old barn and some old fencing down in a few places. I told him to get my tractor and the stuff he needed to fix it ( He knew how...he'd been helping me with fence for 10 years) and get some of his buddies to help him, and we'd move those 21 calves over there. Only thin on the whole place was his 2 horses, in a 5 acre loft around the barn. He got the tractor after school on Friday, and Saturday evening he came over and said " We got the fence fixed!"LOL. We moved the heifers Sunday, and I took a Brangus bull over there and left it about 7 weeks. When the calves were 6 months old, we took my trailer and took them to the sale. 400-500 pounds, and they brought $600-$700. He paid me Monday when the bank opened, and know what he did with the rest? Next Saturday he went to the sale with me, and bought 5 black baldy cows. Next year he bought 10 baldie and angus cows, and a Brahma bull with the calf money. He had a great uncle that let him use his 53 acre pasture, in exchange for him keeping up the place, etc. In 5 years he had to start selling his Corrs to make room for his 70-cow black baldy herd! All bought and paid for with those Corr x calves. He is in his late 30's now, and has about all the pasture land rented up around my old home town. The boy does well with his f1black Brafords. I bet with all the pastures he rents, he has 400_ head now. and a pasture full of Brahma bulls. he is smart, too. He does what I used to do when I did cow/calf. He sells the hell out of the calves when he weans them...doesn't waste 2 years+ trying to raise heifers. He uses his calf money to buy more cows if he needs him. His f1 steer5s sell well too, because they are all black. Anyhow, might be something to consider for your son. Low cost on the cows, no maintenance costs...in money or labor... on the cows, little if any feed costs, and his 1st calf crop will pay for the cows and still have profit left over. [/QUOTE]
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