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Update on the Kudzu- Corriente herd since we sold it.
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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1795938" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Something I thought of last night, was that if we do the Brahma thing, we will have to build a pole barn and some working facilities in it, especially if we decide to AI. We would need electricity and water in it, tool When we put electricity in the pole barn at the Kudzu place, it cost us a couple grand to get power to the barn. and the electric lines ran on that side of the road. Our fence and the back of the barn is maybe 50 feet off the right of way. Over there where we'd run the Brahmas, the power would have to cross the road and the creek that runs beside it, so no telling what that would cost. We could pump water from the creek, but if we want potable water, we'd have to drill a well. The one we drilled by the Kudzu place pole barn cost $7300. We put the well in at the barn on the Kudzu place, because of the dove shoot. We could have pumped out of the creek or the pond there, if we didn't need potable water for drinking water, cooking, washing up etc. </p><p></p><p>It looks like we would be in the full-blown, for real cattle business if we did the Brahmas, something I was not looking to do at this stage of my life, and living 3 hours away. We would still get the grant for cross-fencing, the grant for seed, fertilizer etc, and if the UGA program for the World Feeder/Alfalfa test fields is still active, those seeds would be free as well, even if we went all Corriente. If we did do all Corrs, all we'd need is a corral, and we probably have enough posts, panels, gates, etc, lying around to do that now. If we did the 300 Corrs over there, with the 112 we have now across the road, we'd be looking at 412, $750 black calves at weaning time. Since we decided on year round calving that would give us a average of 34 calves per month to sell for about $25k average per month, Not a bad retirement plan! LOL And no work except for tagging and castrating at birth, then loading calves once a month to go to the sale. </p><p>Yet every night this week, I have gone to sleep envisioning 50 $2k f1 Black Braford heifers waiting on their new owner to come pick them up. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />_</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1795938, member: 40587"] Something I thought of last night, was that if we do the Brahma thing, we will have to build a pole barn and some working facilities in it, especially if we decide to AI. We would need electricity and water in it, tool When we put electricity in the pole barn at the Kudzu place, it cost us a couple grand to get power to the barn. and the electric lines ran on that side of the road. Our fence and the back of the barn is maybe 50 feet off the right of way. Over there where we'd run the Brahmas, the power would have to cross the road and the creek that runs beside it, so no telling what that would cost. We could pump water from the creek, but if we want potable water, we'd have to drill a well. The one we drilled by the Kudzu place pole barn cost $7300. We put the well in at the barn on the Kudzu place, because of the dove shoot. We could have pumped out of the creek or the pond there, if we didn't need potable water for drinking water, cooking, washing up etc. It looks like we would be in the full-blown, for real cattle business if we did the Brahmas, something I was not looking to do at this stage of my life, and living 3 hours away. We would still get the grant for cross-fencing, the grant for seed, fertilizer etc, and if the UGA program for the World Feeder/Alfalfa test fields is still active, those seeds would be free as well, even if we went all Corriente. If we did do all Corrs, all we'd need is a corral, and we probably have enough posts, panels, gates, etc, lying around to do that now. If we did the 300 Corrs over there, with the 112 we have now across the road, we'd be looking at 412, $750 black calves at weaning time. Since we decided on year round calving that would give us a average of 34 calves per month to sell for about $25k average per month, Not a bad retirement plan! LOL And no work except for tagging and castrating at birth, then loading calves once a month to go to the sale. Yet every night this week, I have gone to sleep envisioning 50 $2k f1 Black Braford heifers waiting on their new owner to come pick them up. :)_ [/QUOTE]
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