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<blockquote data-quote="tcolvin" data-source="post: 1821270" data-attributes="member: 42820"><p>I really am pushing my pastures hard. I only have about 20 acres and I have 11 cows and one bull total 12. I had 9 calves born and 2 more coming, making a total of 21. I sold 3 calves off at 8 months old and have 3 more coming off in a month for sale. I am now using my goat pastures as a "getting ready for sale of the calves" by moving 3 moms and calves across road to old goat pastures that has good grass on them. Praise GOD for the wet year we have had I was able to pull it off this year so far. What gets to my pocket book is hay prices and mineral tubs. Vaccination time is bad enough but when you have to buy hay because you can't grow your own it gets tricky keeping a float. Also note I only do this weekly as a treat so I can keep them coming in the corrals. . I'm not getting rich but I'm still swimming and doing what I love. The expense is what got my goats! Prices of goat feed nearly doubled in the 10+ years I had them. My saying now when people tell me "there is money in goats ", I come back with "your absolutely correct, but it's not on the inside the fence, it's on the outside of the fence" with feed, wormers, vaccines, and fence, gates,medicine and minerals, there no room for profit. Believe me, I tried. I hated selling them but I saw the hand writing on the wall. Now I'm trying to make a success story out of cows. Not so much to make a lot of money but to keep the taxes and the land cleared and pay their grocery bill. For me that would be a success story. You gotta love it, to keep doing it , don't cha?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tcolvin, post: 1821270, member: 42820"] I really am pushing my pastures hard. I only have about 20 acres and I have 11 cows and one bull total 12. I had 9 calves born and 2 more coming, making a total of 21. I sold 3 calves off at 8 months old and have 3 more coming off in a month for sale. I am now using my goat pastures as a “getting ready for sale of the calves” by moving 3 moms and calves across road to old goat pastures that has good grass on them. Praise GOD for the wet year we have had I was able to pull it off this year so far. What gets to my pocket book is hay prices and mineral tubs. Vaccination time is bad enough but when you have to buy hay because you can’t grow your own it gets tricky keeping a float. Also note I only do this weekly as a treat so I can keep them coming in the corrals. . I’m not getting rich but I’m still swimming and doing what I love. The expense is what got my goats! Prices of goat feed nearly doubled in the 10+ years I had them. My saying now when people tell me “there is money in goats “, I come back with “your absolutely correct, but it’s not on the inside the fence, it’s on the outside of the fence” with feed, wormers, vaccines, and fence, gates,medicine and minerals, there no room for profit. Believe me, I tried. I hated selling them but I saw the hand writing on the wall. Now I’m trying to make a success story out of cows. Not so much to make a lot of money but to keep the taxes and the land cleared and pay their grocery bill. For me that would be a success story. You gotta love it, to keep doing it , don’t cha? [/QUOTE]
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