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<blockquote data-quote="BIZIN" data-source="post: 879657" data-attributes="member: 5783"><p>Only have 200 of my own. The rest of the cows and yearlings are dad. I sell my calves to my dad, he backgrounds them through winter and then we grass them and whatever cattle we have in the feedlot. The way we run our cows 1 guy can easily calve out, pasture, and winter 1200 cows. We swath graze through winter, stockpile graze through fall and spring, and rotational graze through summer. I currently calve out all our cows on my own on grass and operate our 1200 head feedlot with hired help that we seem to go through like a revolving door, so mostly me on my own. I currently keep about 40 heifers a year and till our feeder association went under I was buying 20-30 purebred hereford heifers a year and breeding them too. I want to get to 500 cows of my own right away and get dad up too 600 or so and as we buy more land keep expanding the cow herd. If I can get to 500 cows of my own and get dad to pay me for managing his cows then I dont have to work at the feedlot anymore. That is my goal as I am allergic to most things on the farm and a feedlot job is pretty hard on my system, not to mention it is monotanous work that I have been doing for 13 years now and havent enjoyed it for a long time. I love the cow/calf aspect and want to eventually get up to a few thousand cows and start selling bulls. Dad used to manage the Saskatchewan Bull Test Station and we are currently looking at getting a bull test going again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BIZIN, post: 879657, member: 5783"] Only have 200 of my own. The rest of the cows and yearlings are dad. I sell my calves to my dad, he backgrounds them through winter and then we grass them and whatever cattle we have in the feedlot. The way we run our cows 1 guy can easily calve out, pasture, and winter 1200 cows. We swath graze through winter, stockpile graze through fall and spring, and rotational graze through summer. I currently calve out all our cows on my own on grass and operate our 1200 head feedlot with hired help that we seem to go through like a revolving door, so mostly me on my own. I currently keep about 40 heifers a year and till our feeder association went under I was buying 20-30 purebred hereford heifers a year and breeding them too. I want to get to 500 cows of my own right away and get dad up too 600 or so and as we buy more land keep expanding the cow herd. If I can get to 500 cows of my own and get dad to pay me for managing his cows then I dont have to work at the feedlot anymore. That is my goal as I am allergic to most things on the farm and a feedlot job is pretty hard on my system, not to mention it is monotanous work that I have been doing for 13 years now and havent enjoyed it for a long time. I love the cow/calf aspect and want to eventually get up to a few thousand cows and start selling bulls. Dad used to manage the Saskatchewan Bull Test Station and we are currently looking at getting a bull test going again. [/QUOTE]
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