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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1829461" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>The folks bought a ranch in northern California and we moved there when I was 2/3, then a farm in Minnesota until I was out of second grade. City folks learning to be country. Throwing big parties the locals would attend and talk about. We moved back into the city after that. I wanted a horse, bad, and finally the parents landed on a little place with enough room. Dad would take me out to look at horses and none of them met his approval, but we rented pasture and I got enough experience that I started gentling some for extra money by the time I was in high school. Dad finally bought three cows, one supposedly "mine" because I picked it out. One of his dropped a dead calf and the other one looked ready to have triples but wouldn't cycle and never bred. Mine bred every year on the first AI and I'd get the money from selling half a beef when her calf was a little over a year old. The other half went to my parents for buying the hay we needed for the year.</p><p>College was Animal Science specializing in beef production.</p><p>Eventually my wife and I had saved up enough for a small place in Arkansas and we made the leap. I was working for Walmart in Bentonville to make ends meet and working the sale barns, helping the vets preg check and bangs test to learn what I could learn... and I started to use what I learned to bring home bred cows. The neighbors noticed the cows in the corral and began to drop by, and they'd often go home with a cow or two. I made as much trading cattle as I made raising them.</p><p>South Dakota was another story... but that came later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1829461, member: 42463"] The folks bought a ranch in northern California and we moved there when I was 2/3, then a farm in Minnesota until I was out of second grade. City folks learning to be country. Throwing big parties the locals would attend and talk about. We moved back into the city after that. I wanted a horse, bad, and finally the parents landed on a little place with enough room. Dad would take me out to look at horses and none of them met his approval, but we rented pasture and I got enough experience that I started gentling some for extra money by the time I was in high school. Dad finally bought three cows, one supposedly "mine" because I picked it out. One of his dropped a dead calf and the other one looked ready to have triples but wouldn't cycle and never bred. Mine bred every year on the first AI and I'd get the money from selling half a beef when her calf was a little over a year old. The other half went to my parents for buying the hay we needed for the year. College was Animal Science specializing in beef production. Eventually my wife and I had saved up enough for a small place in Arkansas and we made the leap. I was working for Walmart in Bentonville to make ends meet and working the sale barns, helping the vets preg check and bangs test to learn what I could learn... and I started to use what I learned to bring home bred cows. The neighbors noticed the cows in the corral and began to drop by, and they'd often go home with a cow or two. I made as much trading cattle as I made raising them. South Dakota was another story... but that came later. [/QUOTE]
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