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<blockquote data-quote="Sthrncwboy" data-source="post: 1810312" data-attributes="member: 42970"><p>Given all of this you stated above, I agree with [USER=40587]@Warren Allison[/USER] and [USER=43196]@Mark Reynolds[/USER] . Your best bet, and the easiest and least expensive route, is to buy those calves and raise them to slaughter. But get the guy you are buying them from to cut the bull calf now. If you buy weaned calves each spring, and slaughter them each fall, then you wont have to worry much about hay in the winter. If y'all are just adamant about raising a calf, then don't buy your buddy's calves.</p><p></p><p> Instead buy a couple of bred cows, and you can experience the birthing and raising of the babies. Sell them as pairs when the calves are 2-3 months old and buy some more bred cows. Breeding and raising your own beef to eat is a losing proposition. You can <em>always</em> buy one to raise and eat a lot cheaper than you can breed a cow, birth the calf, and raise it to slaughter size. And you can <em>always </em>( people on here may tell you different, but it just ain't so) buy as good or better replacement heifers, or brood cows, cheaper than you can raise one.</p><p></p><p>Given what you said above, y'all can be ready for cattle in a weekend. All you have to do is finish the fencing. You can bush hog with cattle in the pasture, and 10 acres won't even take a whole Saturday to do. I wouldn't even count that as something that needs to be done to get ready. About the only thing I see missing from your list, is a pen or corral or something. Do you have corral panels you use as a round pen for the horses? You can make a suitable holding area with them. If you do get those calves from the buddy, you'd want to keep them in a pen for a week and feed them sweet feed, before you turned them loose on 10 acres with just barbed wire fencing.</p><p></p><p>Or, there is a third option, and y'all have the perfect set up with those 10 acres, barn etc. Pay attention to what [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] does. Go back and read all of his threads, You could buy a couple of "Bessies", breed them each year and buy 3 more calves for each during the year, You can experience breeding and raising your own calves, plus grow out 6-8 calves each year to eat or sell.</p><p></p><p>Tell me about your horses. What kind and what do you do with them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sthrncwboy, post: 1810312, member: 42970"] Given all of this you stated above, I agree with [USER=40587]@Warren Allison[/USER] and [USER=43196]@Mark Reynolds[/USER] . Your best bet, and the easiest and least expensive route, is to buy those calves and raise them to slaughter. But get the guy you are buying them from to cut the bull calf now. If you buy weaned calves each spring, and slaughter them each fall, then you wont have to worry much about hay in the winter. If y'all are just adamant about raising a calf, then don't buy your buddy's calves. Instead buy a couple of bred cows, and you can experience the birthing and raising of the babies. Sell them as pairs when the calves are 2-3 months old and buy some more bred cows. Breeding and raising your own beef to eat is a losing proposition. You can [I]always[/I] buy one to raise and eat a lot cheaper than you can breed a cow, birth the calf, and raise it to slaughter size. And you can [I]always [/I]( people on here may tell you different, but it just ain't so) buy as good or better replacement heifers, or brood cows, cheaper than you can raise one. Given what you said above, y'all can be ready for cattle in a weekend. All you have to do is finish the fencing. You can bush hog with cattle in the pasture, and 10 acres won't even take a whole Saturday to do. I wouldn't even count that as something that needs to be done to get ready. About the only thing I see missing from your list, is a pen or corral or something. Do you have corral panels you use as a round pen for the horses? You can make a suitable holding area with them. If you do get those calves from the buddy, you'd want to keep them in a pen for a week and feed them sweet feed, before you turned them loose on 10 acres with just barbed wire fencing. Or, there is a third option, and y'all have the perfect set up with those 10 acres, barn etc. Pay attention to what [USER=39373]@MurraysMutts[/USER] does. Go back and read all of his threads, You could buy a couple of "Bessies", breed them each year and buy 3 more calves for each during the year, You can experience breeding and raising your own calves, plus grow out 6-8 calves each year to eat or sell. Tell me about your horses. What kind and what do you do with them? [/QUOTE]
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