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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1029685" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>I was raised on a horse farm, the only cattle we saw was a steer every year we raised for the freezer. I became an ag teacher, and kept with the show horses. Moved to a different state, bought up some land (sold our place in California and were able to buy a much bigger piece of property in MO with the money we made), and did not want to continue with horses when the market crashed. Gelded our stud, sold all of the foals, kept just 4 horses, and had a bunch of grass. Our oldest (11 at the time) wanted to raise sheep, I said NO WAY! So we went to beef. She bought her first two heifers, with her own money she made with her 4-H projects, and we built from there. She is now 16 (17 in September), personally she owns more cattle than the ranch does, and both her younger siblings have a handful of heifers/cows themselves. The cattle will, hopefully, pay for college. The oldest wants to go to vet school, the middle wants to be a medical doctor, and my son... well, last month it was a motorcycle mechanic, this month it is a CSI investigator! He is only 8 so he has time. Right now we are running 20 cows and about 8 heifers (bred for next spring). No bulls, just AI and embryos. All bulls are sold by the time they are breeding age, at least that is the way we used to do it! Might keep a young one around for the cows that don't follow the instructions of getting pregnant!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1029685, member: 18809"] I was raised on a horse farm, the only cattle we saw was a steer every year we raised for the freezer. I became an ag teacher, and kept with the show horses. Moved to a different state, bought up some land (sold our place in California and were able to buy a much bigger piece of property in MO with the money we made), and did not want to continue with horses when the market crashed. Gelded our stud, sold all of the foals, kept just 4 horses, and had a bunch of grass. Our oldest (11 at the time) wanted to raise sheep, I said NO WAY! So we went to beef. She bought her first two heifers, with her own money she made with her 4-H projects, and we built from there. She is now 16 (17 in September), personally she owns more cattle than the ranch does, and both her younger siblings have a handful of heifers/cows themselves. The cattle will, hopefully, pay for college. The oldest wants to go to vet school, the middle wants to be a medical doctor, and my son... well, last month it was a motorcycle mechanic, this month it is a CSI investigator! He is only 8 so he has time. Right now we are running 20 cows and about 8 heifers (bred for next spring). No bulls, just AI and embryos. All bulls are sold by the time they are breeding age, at least that is the way we used to do it! Might keep a young one around for the cows that don't follow the instructions of getting pregnant! [/QUOTE]
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