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<blockquote data-quote="sunnyblueskies" data-source="post: 1832117" data-attributes="member: 39112"><p>All depends on how one sets it up I suppose. Let's take available land out of the equation for a moment, because that will dictate the size of your operation regardless of how many people work the cows.</p><p></p><p>Around here we have all kinds of different setups. Most are family run operations.</p><p>One is a Cow/Calf + feedlot. Not sure how many they actually run, if it's 300 or 400 cows plus the same amount in feeders. Plus grain operations. 2 guys for feeding, calving. Hired hand or hands during seeding and harvest. Mind you, calving starts in may and is done on pasture. They are hard working people, that's for sure.</p><p></p><p>Another outfit is about 500 cows, no feedlot, but also grain. They calve earlier, which is a lot more work here due to the long winter season. Same idea as the previous example.</p><p></p><p>There is poor lil me, we have currently 90 bred cows plus a few calves retained for replacement heifers. My husband works fulltime and is only available on days off. Calve in April/May, to get out of the worst winter weather, and we grow our own hay. That's about it. It's very laid back, except when **** hits the fan. Have started to hire out some fencing, like building new fence over a longer distances as we're not getting younger either.</p><p></p><p>And yet another outfit, the main Farm/Ranch is a couple hundred miles from here, but they bought a block of grazing land here. Run 250 or 300 cows there all year. The cows calve on their own, whatever happens happens. And feeding in winter is done by hauled in bale grazing, which is set up in fall sometime. Neighbour just keeps an eye on the herd, as in 'are they on the right side of the fence' and the rest is done by dropping by every now and then and hauling out the calves in the fall. </p><p>Not sure what you would call that kind of setup.</p><p>What I'm trying to get to is, it all depends how YOU want to set it up, how ambitious you are and how much money is involved. </p><p>Working yourself to death isn't worth it either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sunnyblueskies, post: 1832117, member: 39112"] All depends on how one sets it up I suppose. Let's take available land out of the equation for a moment, because that will dictate the size of your operation regardless of how many people work the cows. Around here we have all kinds of different setups. Most are family run operations. One is a Cow/Calf + feedlot. Not sure how many they actually run, if it's 300 or 400 cows plus the same amount in feeders. Plus grain operations. 2 guys for feeding, calving. Hired hand or hands during seeding and harvest. Mind you, calving starts in may and is done on pasture. They are hard working people, that's for sure. Another outfit is about 500 cows, no feedlot, but also grain. They calve earlier, which is a lot more work here due to the long winter season. Same idea as the previous example. There is poor lil me, we have currently 90 bred cows plus a few calves retained for replacement heifers. My husband works fulltime and is only available on days off. Calve in April/May, to get out of the worst winter weather, and we grow our own hay. That's about it. It's very laid back, except when **** hits the fan. Have started to hire out some fencing, like building new fence over a longer distances as we're not getting younger either. And yet another outfit, the main Farm/Ranch is a couple hundred miles from here, but they bought a block of grazing land here. Run 250 or 300 cows there all year. The cows calve on their own, whatever happens happens. And feeding in winter is done by hauled in bale grazing, which is set up in fall sometime. Neighbour just keeps an eye on the herd, as in 'are they on the right side of the fence' and the rest is done by dropping by every now and then and hauling out the calves in the fall. Not sure what you would call that kind of setup. What I'm trying to get to is, it all depends how YOU want to set it up, how ambitious you are and how much money is involved. Working yourself to death isn't worth it either. [/QUOTE]
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