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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Reynolds" data-source="post: 1810287" data-attributes="member: 43196"><p>Washington County! That's where I am!.......wait.......wrong state........I'm in Ohio. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😝" title="Squinting face with tongue :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61d.png" data-shortname=":stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:" /> At least they both start with "O".</p><p>It's good to see you have put some thought into this, have some experience, and you also have some support/mentors. There are members here that will help you all they can. Just continue to ask. </p><p>As for which kind of operation you want, either buy calves and take them to slaughter or have an operation with cows that you calve and raise the calves to the point of taking them to slaughter is up to you. My thoughts (and I personally don't own any livestock, but I play a different role in the 'process') would be that you start by buying some calves and raising them to slaughter. This is probably the simplest operation, will allow you to avoid some expenses and pitfalls you might encounter otherwise with a cow calf operation, and will allow you to produce more beef per acre in a shorter amount of time.</p><p>Let's assume you are going to start with the simpler operation and buy and raise calves for slaughter and not for breeding. One of the first things you will want to do is band/castrate the bull calves, but you might let them adjust to the new pasture for a few days after getting them. Lower stress levels on the calves I think. Someone else with ownership experience might have a different thought.</p><p>As for the pasture and ponds, that would be the 'grazing plan' which is more my cup of tea, but I'm not on site so there is information I need to make recommendations that you might know, but I wouldn't expect you to know yet. That being how many acres of the property that you are grazing is required to grow enough forage to feed a single AU (Animal Unit = 1,000 lb of live animal weight). Knowing that allows someone to determine carrying capacity/how many animals of a certain size you can put on the property without eating the forage faster than it grows and ultimately making the animals go hungry/not gain weight or starve and turning the property into a mud pit or dust bowl. I would also suggest that you construct a fence around the ponds on the property to give the animals a limited access point to the ponds to drink if watering directly out of the ponds in order to maintain and preserve water quality. I also suggest that you sub-divide the 10 acres into smaller pastures that you rotate the animals through. Contact your local NRCS office and seek their help on carrying capacity, fencing the ponds/watering and the rotation system. These 3 items here are part of the foundation of what will be your livestock operation. I'll say something here that will make more sense in time, but might sound puzzling right now. If you want to raise cattle, you are committing to managing grass, and not so much managing the animals themselves. The animals themselves are a tool you use to manage the grass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Reynolds, post: 1810287, member: 43196"] Washington County! That's where I am!.......wait.......wrong state........I'm in Ohio. 😝 At least they both start with "O". It's good to see you have put some thought into this, have some experience, and you also have some support/mentors. There are members here that will help you all they can. Just continue to ask. As for which kind of operation you want, either buy calves and take them to slaughter or have an operation with cows that you calve and raise the calves to the point of taking them to slaughter is up to you. My thoughts (and I personally don't own any livestock, but I play a different role in the 'process') would be that you start by buying some calves and raising them to slaughter. This is probably the simplest operation, will allow you to avoid some expenses and pitfalls you might encounter otherwise with a cow calf operation, and will allow you to produce more beef per acre in a shorter amount of time. Let's assume you are going to start with the simpler operation and buy and raise calves for slaughter and not for breeding. One of the first things you will want to do is band/castrate the bull calves, but you might let them adjust to the new pasture for a few days after getting them. Lower stress levels on the calves I think. Someone else with ownership experience might have a different thought. As for the pasture and ponds, that would be the 'grazing plan' which is more my cup of tea, but I'm not on site so there is information I need to make recommendations that you might know, but I wouldn't expect you to know yet. That being how many acres of the property that you are grazing is required to grow enough forage to feed a single AU (Animal Unit = 1,000 lb of live animal weight). Knowing that allows someone to determine carrying capacity/how many animals of a certain size you can put on the property without eating the forage faster than it grows and ultimately making the animals go hungry/not gain weight or starve and turning the property into a mud pit or dust bowl. I would also suggest that you construct a fence around the ponds on the property to give the animals a limited access point to the ponds to drink if watering directly out of the ponds in order to maintain and preserve water quality. I also suggest that you sub-divide the 10 acres into smaller pastures that you rotate the animals through. Contact your local NRCS office and seek their help on carrying capacity, fencing the ponds/watering and the rotation system. These 3 items here are part of the foundation of what will be your livestock operation. I'll say something here that will make more sense in time, but might sound puzzling right now. If you want to raise cattle, you are committing to managing grass, and not so much managing the animals themselves. The animals themselves are a tool you use to manage the grass. [/QUOTE]
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