Is dry-lotting a couple steer viable?

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Here at our farm we only have 11 acres and most of it is hilly. So, I was thinking of getting a couple steer and putting them on a 1/4 acre drylot. Am I kidding myself? Would the cost outweigh the benefits? I have access to alfalfa at $180 a ton and plenty of water. Thanks in advance!
 
Depends on what you are trying to do. The dollar value of the steers would be exceeded by the cost of feed. For the experience, particularly if there are any kids involved, what would gained from it far surpasses the monetary side of thing.
 
Depends on what you plan to do with them. Just feeding them up and taking back to the sale would be a loser. Feeding them up to put some meat in the freezer? You will know what you are eating. To sell halves of beef? You can price the meat to get your money back or even make a little. If you do, it buy bigger steers. An 800 pound steer won't cost that much more than a 400 pound steer. You can buy those pounds cheaper than you can put them on.
 
Sorry to break it to you, but in America, you are not allowed to waste money on something useful.

You have to blow money on a boat, or an RV, or video games, or fancy cars, or on a couple horses or something. There is an official list of fun and useless stuff. You don't want to be accused, like I have been, of not wanting to have fun. I thought I enjoyed feeding cows, but then I saw the list and that activity wasn't on there. Useful things cannot be fun.

And to get exercise, you are not allowed to feed hay to cattle. You have to buy a gym membership and move stuff around to nowhere. Which, for some reason, people can't get motivated for, and quit going to the gym. And then they sit around and get fat, or get blood clots and stroke, or diabetes, or heart disease, or whatever.

And then they die early. Fortunately, being dead, they aren't wasting money feeding cows.
 
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Owning cattle is like a drug to some people, Can't live without them. I found that out when I sold out because of drought,
 
lol.
Close, cb43... it's a sickness...
I've long admitted that my choice of my profession was just a way to finance my own cattle habit...by working on other folks' cows.
 

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