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<blockquote data-quote="msscamp" data-source="post: 493694" data-attributes="member: 539"><p>The first thing I would do is call all of the salebarns in the area, and find out what sells when for the best price. Then I would do everything I could to take advantage of that. The 2nd thing I would do is talk to neighbors, other people who run cattle, vets, people at the salebarn, etc., and see if anyone needed a little free help. That way I could get some hands on experience with cattle, recognizing illness, how to handle them, how those people are set-up, how well it works, etc. With 11 acres, you don't have the capacity to run very many head of anything without supplementing pretty heavily with hay. I personally would stay away from the show cattle simply because, as a newbie, you don't have the reputation to back you up, and show cattle are going to get pretty expensive, pretty quickly. If I had no experience with cattle, I would also stay away from calves because they tend to require the knowledge/experience to be able to diagnose illness and know how to treat those illnesses. If you don't have that ability, you tend to lose a bunch of them. You actually have a 4th option - 3 in 1's. I would go with 4 year olds or older. That way your potential losses are less than with 2 or 3 year olds, the cows are proven, and it makes for a better situation for you. Although you won't be able to run enough to make that much of a difference finacially, they will provide some cash flow and you might be able to do it in such a way that it would make it a bit easier to expand your operation to where you could run enough to make a difference financially.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msscamp, post: 493694, member: 539"] The first thing I would do is call all of the salebarns in the area, and find out what sells when for the best price. Then I would do everything I could to take advantage of that. The 2nd thing I would do is talk to neighbors, other people who run cattle, vets, people at the salebarn, etc., and see if anyone needed a little free help. That way I could get some hands on experience with cattle, recognizing illness, how to handle them, how those people are set-up, how well it works, etc. With 11 acres, you don't have the capacity to run very many head of anything without supplementing pretty heavily with hay. I personally would stay away from the show cattle simply because, as a newbie, you don't have the reputation to back you up, and show cattle are going to get pretty expensive, pretty quickly. If I had no experience with cattle, I would also stay away from calves because they tend to require the knowledge/experience to be able to diagnose illness and know how to treat those illnesses. If you don't have that ability, you tend to lose a bunch of them. You actually have a 4th option - 3 in 1's. I would go with 4 year olds or older. That way your potential losses are less than with 2 or 3 year olds, the cows are proven, and it makes for a better situation for you. Although you won't be able to run enough to make that much of a difference finacially, they will provide some cash flow and you might be able to do it in such a way that it would make it a bit easier to expand your operation to where you could run enough to make a difference financially. [/QUOTE]
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