Small cattle trailer

[NonTypicalCPA]

I’m selling my cows and plan on just buying 2 or 3 just weaned steers each year to feed out. I will have them butchered here at the house, but will need a trailer to pick them up with. I’ve already got a 7x12 utility trailer and a 18’ car hauler, but I don’t think I could make either of those work. Small livestock trailers used are hard to come by. Any other ideas that would work?

 

[Hardnosecattleco]

Can usually pick up a used two horse bumper pull trailer for around a grand

 

[Buck Randall]

Why not just pay someone to haul them in?

 

[NonTypicalCPA]

I’d love to find something that would do double duty as a calf hauler and a utility trailer. Then I’d sell my current utility trailer.

 

[Brute 23]

They make slip in cages that go on utility trailers to haul cattle.

http://www.rangergate.com/trailer_insert.htm

 

[KAstocker]

We rented a bumper pull last year for $90 a day

 

[sstterry]

Around here, some of the local Co-Ops rent trailers by the day.

 

[Warren Allison]

Why not just pay someone to haul them in?

That was my first thought too, Buck. Or, for hauling 3 calves 1 time a year, get some cattle racks for your truck. I guess they still make them? When I was a boy, that was ALL you saw on Saturday morning at the cow sale.. pick-ups with those racks.

 

[HDRider]

I’m selling my cows and plan on just buying 2 or 3 just weaned steers each year to feed out. I will have them butchered here at the house, but will need a trailer to pick them up with. I’ve already got a 7x12 utility trailer and a 18’ car hauler, but I don’t think I could make either of those work. Small livestock trailers used are hard to come by. Any other ideas that would work?

Your cattle endeavor did not last long

 

[kenny thomas]

If you're buying weaned steers privately just make it part of the deal that they deliver them

 

[jltrent]

If you do a spreadsheet with all the debits and credits with 2-3 calves, hire them hauled.

 

[NonTypicalCPA]

Your cattle endeavor did not last long

I'm still in it, just without the cows and bull. I'm able to buy the F1 crosses that I want locally so feeding and maintaining the cows/bull just doesn't make monetary sense any longer. I'm trying to establish a system that allows me to keep going even when I retire, without the significant cash inflows. I've enjoyed the tax losses, but need to stem the actual losses eventually.

 

[HDRider]

I'm still in it, just without the cows and bull. I'm able to buy the F1 crosses that I want locally so feeding and maintaining the cows/bull just doesn't make monetary sense any longer. I'm trying to establish a system that allows me to keep going even when I retire, without the significant cash inflows. I've enjoyed the tax losses, but need to stem the actual losses eventually.

So you are just feeding out some steers now?

 

[Warren Allison]

Yeah, I'd get some cattle racks for your truck, if I was gonna haul 3 calves once a year. Or, just get someone to haul them for you, if you can't borrow a trailer.