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<blockquote data-quote="Bigfoot" data-source="post: 1028734" data-attributes="member: 17956"><p>I'm 42. Grew up on a tobacco, grain, and cattle farm. My father gave me a heifer when I was very young. Possibly at 4 or 5 years old. I never drew an hourly wage working for parents. I was allowed to keep heifers as I saw fit. Their hay etc was my payment for working. I got into showing steers, as a way to pay for college. I showed 3 every year. I bought the calves, and he bought the feed. I graduated high school in 1989. The bottom had fallen out of land about that time. I used my college savings as a down payment on a farm. I was 18, and I can't remember how many cows I had that first year, 25 or 30 would be a good guess. </p><p></p><p>Cattle took a back seat to horses for several years. Horses are a young mans game, and too much traveling for a man with small children. When the bottom fell out, I quit fooling with colts and concentrated on my cattle operation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigfoot, post: 1028734, member: 17956"] I'm 42. Grew up on a tobacco, grain, and cattle farm. My father gave me a heifer when I was very young. Possibly at 4 or 5 years old. I never drew an hourly wage working for parents. I was allowed to keep heifers as I saw fit. Their hay etc was my payment for working. I got into showing steers, as a way to pay for college. I showed 3 every year. I bought the calves, and he bought the feed. I graduated high school in 1989. The bottom had fallen out of land about that time. I used my college savings as a down payment on a farm. I was 18, and I can't remember how many cows I had that first year, 25 or 30 would be a good guess. Cattle took a back seat to horses for several years. Horses are a young mans game, and too much traveling for a man with small children. When the bottom fell out, I quit fooling with colts and concentrated on my cattle operation. [/QUOTE]
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