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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1771098" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Thanks for the comments, everyone. I called him last night and told him I wanted them, and told him I was getting a check to cover them this coming week if he could wait. He said " Al, 1 have known you 40 years, and your word is good as gold with me. You tell me you are going to get them, and I will go ahead and start AI'ing them, and you can pay me after I have them all bred and you come get them". So, I am meeting him later this morning at his barn to look at that colt then we gonna ride out to the farm where those cows are. Y'all are right...just about no way to lose. 16 cows averaging 1600 pounds for $6k. Say 75% of them don't breed. Say the market gets waaay down on slaughter cows, and they bring 25 cents a pound. 12 of them at $400 each would be $4800. Say for some reason the 4 that do breed end up with bull calves. I wean them at 6 mos at 500 lbs, and they only bring $1 a pound. That's another $2k, so I am at $6800 and still have 4 cows to sell. The client with the 80 brahmas is going to feed them what his heifers eat, and worm, vaccinate, treat, etc, right along with his. Of course I will be down there anyhow when he works his cows. He has Bahia and bermuda pastures, and hundreds of bales of bermuda and peanut hay. So, no inputs unless one of them needs a vet for something. Well, the true cost will have to reflect how much time I will have to spend on the colt, too, but I still think I will come out ahead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1771098, member: 40587"] Thanks for the comments, everyone. I called him last night and told him I wanted them, and told him I was getting a check to cover them this coming week if he could wait. He said " Al, 1 have known you 40 years, and your word is good as gold with me. You tell me you are going to get them, and I will go ahead and start AI'ing them, and you can pay me after I have them all bred and you come get them". So, I am meeting him later this morning at his barn to look at that colt then we gonna ride out to the farm where those cows are. Y'all are right...just about no way to lose. 16 cows averaging 1600 pounds for $6k. Say 75% of them don't breed. Say the market gets waaay down on slaughter cows, and they bring 25 cents a pound. 12 of them at $400 each would be $4800. Say for some reason the 4 that do breed end up with bull calves. I wean them at 6 mos at 500 lbs, and they only bring $1 a pound. That's another $2k, so I am at $6800 and still have 4 cows to sell. The client with the 80 brahmas is going to feed them what his heifers eat, and worm, vaccinate, treat, etc, right along with his. Of course I will be down there anyhow when he works his cows. He has Bahia and bermuda pastures, and hundreds of bales of bermuda and peanut hay. So, no inputs unless one of them needs a vet for something. Well, the true cost will have to reflect how much time I will have to spend on the colt, too, but I still think I will come out ahead. [/QUOTE]
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