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<blockquote data-quote="Bama" data-source="post: 489812" data-attributes="member: 1184"><p>You lost me on the sheep dipping expense??</p><p></p><p> I have them in groups as to size. My spreadsheet subtracts the day they went on feed from the day they went off feed. This may occur a couple of times a year depending on their weight and what time of year I bought them. Then it figures a total of feed consumed and at what cost. From this I can get a total cost in feed per calf. That would be grain consumed. It also does this with hay. It doesn't figure the exact feed to each one as this would be cost prohibited. If I have 50 to a group and put out 200 pounds of feed it goes with 2 pounds per head. This don't figure in one eating 1.9 pounds and the one next to it eating 2.1. It means that each one had the oppertunity to eat 2 pounds. I only feed grain and hay when I have to in winter. I perfer to grow them on grass. Grass is figured in at a cost as well. Grass cost is determined by cost of fertilizer and chemicals as well as fuel and a few other expense. I can get a fairly close estament in dollars per day all the time, But it is not to the exact penny until years end. At that time all of the years expenses have been divided out over the entire years worth of cattle. If I buy 100 in January and sell out in May due to a really bad drought and only carry 20 till December then buy back 500 you can see why I use "day on the farm" to figure with. These are extremes of course, but you can get my point. I sold 20 today. They will be charged with only 14 days worth of this years expenses plus all of last years expenses they had. This years expense won't be exact until years end. The grain, hay, Vet, salt, mineral and protein, medicine, stockyard fees and commissions, and utilities are a constant the fertlizer, lime, chemical, fuel, oil, seeds, pasture expenses, supplies, equipment repairs, improvements and maintenance are not. Thats why I have to wait to years end to get a figure to a exact penny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bama, post: 489812, member: 1184"] You lost me on the sheep dipping expense?? I have them in groups as to size. My spreadsheet subtracts the day they went on feed from the day they went off feed. This may occur a couple of times a year depending on their weight and what time of year I bought them. Then it figures a total of feed consumed and at what cost. From this I can get a total cost in feed per calf. That would be grain consumed. It also does this with hay. It doesn't figure the exact feed to each one as this would be cost prohibited. If I have 50 to a group and put out 200 pounds of feed it goes with 2 pounds per head. This don't figure in one eating 1.9 pounds and the one next to it eating 2.1. It means that each one had the oppertunity to eat 2 pounds. I only feed grain and hay when I have to in winter. I perfer to grow them on grass. Grass is figured in at a cost as well. Grass cost is determined by cost of fertilizer and chemicals as well as fuel and a few other expense. I can get a fairly close estament in dollars per day all the time, But it is not to the exact penny until years end. At that time all of the years expenses have been divided out over the entire years worth of cattle. If I buy 100 in January and sell out in May due to a really bad drought and only carry 20 till December then buy back 500 you can see why I use "day on the farm" to figure with. These are extremes of course, but you can get my point. I sold 20 today. They will be charged with only 14 days worth of this years expenses plus all of last years expenses they had. This years expense won't be exact until years end. The grain, hay, Vet, salt, mineral and protein, medicine, stockyard fees and commissions, and utilities are a constant the fertlizer, lime, chemical, fuel, oil, seeds, pasture expenses, supplies, equipment repairs, improvements and maintenance are not. Thats why I have to wait to years end to get a figure to a exact penny. [/QUOTE]
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