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<blockquote data-quote="John SD" data-source="post: 1023521" data-attributes="member: 14713"><p>When I was a kid Dad was diversified into a little bit of everything. Beef, milked a few cows and sold cream, raised and sold butcher pigs, sheep, and kept 500 laying hens each year. Did a little bit of small grain farming for our own feed purposes, and put up lots of hay.</p><p></p><p>By the time I took over when I got out of high school we had quit chickens and milking cows. I stayed with hogs and some farming for a few years. Got another place, increased the cow herd , stayed steady on sheep, but quit hogs.</p><p></p><p>Started having my own health problems. Got rid of the sheep and was cattle only for the last 10 yrs.</p><p></p><p>Guess you could say I'm semi-retired now at age 50. I sold the home place but still live here. Kept the other place. Take in 65 pairs for summer there and still have 200 acres of hay ground to put up.</p><p></p><p>Only other jobs I've ever had were part time fencing and veterinary helper in my younger years. No income from anything other than the ranch in the last 20 years. Hoping some of my stock and mutual fund investments pay off a few years down the road.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John SD, post: 1023521, member: 14713"] When I was a kid Dad was diversified into a little bit of everything. Beef, milked a few cows and sold cream, raised and sold butcher pigs, sheep, and kept 500 laying hens each year. Did a little bit of small grain farming for our own feed purposes, and put up lots of hay. By the time I took over when I got out of high school we had quit chickens and milking cows. I stayed with hogs and some farming for a few years. Got another place, increased the cow herd , stayed steady on sheep, but quit hogs. Started having my own health problems. Got rid of the sheep and was cattle only for the last 10 yrs. Guess you could say I'm semi-retired now at age 50. I sold the home place but still live here. Kept the other place. Take in 65 pairs for summer there and still have 200 acres of hay ground to put up. Only other jobs I've ever had were part time fencing and veterinary helper in my younger years. No income from anything other than the ranch in the last 20 years. Hoping some of my stock and mutual fund investments pay off a few years down the road. [/QUOTE]
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