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« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2012, 11:55:21 am » |
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You could make a living on 100 head if you played your cards right. Buy your hay don't bail your own use your hay pasture to graze let someone else deal with the headache of the equipment. Lots of variables. Now Texas last year had no hay but it was a odd year. This year you can't give it away. Last year I made my cows push it I did not buy hay. But we had no winter. Boy made me think should I buy this year.lol
Eric my dad has 50 head of cows and could not make any money in it. Still has those 50 head and he will die with those 50 head. He keeps his hiefers even year. Now he has always had a job to support these cows. He has open 80 acres that he does not use he ask me the other day to make him some money with that 80 acres. So I will.
So saying its ignorance is not justifiable.
Doctors and lawyers are your cattle men know spending money is what they have to do. I'm neither its profit or go get a job.
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« Reply #21 on: August 16, 2012, 07:55:12 pm » |
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« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2012, 10:07:00 pm » |
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Cward, Im not questioning your ability to raise cattle or produce profits. Thats not my intension and its not personal. There are two things that I want to be clear about. Debt adds risk. Thats why they call it a liability. Thats in ANY business. Not all large operation have debt. It is not a requirement to be to a large business. At the end of the day I dont care what people do. Im not mad you or any one else. We dont have to agree.... Nor is it my business how you or any one else operates. |
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« Reply #23 on: August 16, 2012, 10:28:05 pm » |
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Check out the cattle today q&a Fourm. You could read for days on if you can make a living on cattle. Lots and lots of opinions. I sit and dream everyday about everything I would like to have on this place. But I have seen guys get way to big way to fast and end up with nothing. I think you can be successful starting cattle on borrowed money if you play your cards right. Every farmer I know here makes a living on borrowed money annually. No difference in a cattle operation
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« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2012, 08:34:53 am » |
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Here's my question... Figured some of y'all posting on this thread might have an answer. What would you haul in this trailer? It's 47 feet long x 7 feet wide, gooseneck hitch, and only has 3 axles with 16" tires? There is 16' of overhang behind the rear axle, and it's pretty easy to overload a 32'x6' with triples, much less a trailer that holds 70% more cattle on the same axles...   |
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« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2012, 08:38:40 am » |
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Yeah because when you load cattle they don't walk around or shift in a trailer. They stand completely still and you'll never know you have a load  |
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« Reply #27 on: August 17, 2012, 11:56:31 am » |
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Chris I would call that six blower tires. Thats a man of a trailer that is useless. Even for sheep.lol
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« Reply #28 on: August 17, 2012, 12:48:31 pm » |
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For trapping hogs...  |
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« Reply #29 on: August 17, 2012, 12:50:59 pm » |
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You could make some nice off the ground kennels out of that thing.
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« Reply #30 on: August 17, 2012, 01:48:38 pm » |
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« Reply #31 on: August 18, 2012, 07:44:29 pm » |
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I have couple ex's I would like to put in there and drive them up to Alaska |
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