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Can you breed healthy good condition heifers at 14 months old?

Anyone do this? I know a man that buys open heifers ready to breed around first of April and sells them as bred heifers about 5-7 months later. He's almost been doubling his money as he doesn't do it in the winter months and doesn't have to have hay. He leases bulls so he doesn't have anything...

I'll try to be brief. A wealthy frined of my family wants me to come up with a business plan for his 70 acres of pasture to make money with cattle. He isn't looking to get rich as he already is but just to make a small profit or as much as reasonably possible. 1. 70 acres of pasture some creek...

55 acres of good river bottom grass with all fencing, facilities and water in place. Stockers or cow/calf? I'm thinking long term also. Could probably hold 30-35 mama cows and I don't about stockers if I went that route. Thanks

We have a 3 week old calf with what appears to be coccidiosis. He has recently been accepted by another cow that just lost her calf as his mama wouldn't let him nurse and we locked her up twice a day for two weeks and he nursed that way. His foster mama is good to him and treats him as her own...

how many band and give a tetanus and how many band and don't give one? Just curious. We band and don't give a tetanus--just band and let em go.

Does anyone do this with this size herd? What kind of calving window should I expect? When would I put the bulls in, for how long and is two enough or three?

We have some bred heifers we bought that we're going to calve out. What do we need to have on hand besides patience and realistic expectations?

Got a chance to maybe work at a local dairy PT and they're asking me about career objectives? I haven't thought about like that before--you think they're trying to weed out people or something? I was going to tell them to own my own beef cattle farm one day and maybe have some ownership in the...

Might get use of a 53 acre piece that borders a river for about 1/3 of the property and then homes and major highway borders the rest. What would be my best bet for fencing? It will flood occasionally on the river side of the land. If it turns out to be to expensive then I guess I'll just not...

Are there specific programs for getting short term loans for calves that I will sell in 3-5 months? Of course I know of the banks etc. but are there farm specific plans out there just for this kind of thing?

Don't get on here much but do value you all's opinion. I talked with a man today that has a little over 200 acres of good grass pasture fully fenced, with alleys and sorting pens. It has water in all paddocks. He is wanting someone to run stocker/feeders on it and he will look after them but he...

I currently don't have any cattle at all. I talked with a man that has about 125 acres of good grass that wants to work some kind of deal for me to run cattle on his place. He lives about 1 hr. from me and says he's open to almost anything. He has good cattle experience, good facilities and good...

Would you say it's reasonable to project 30% of your total cattle revenue goes for production costs yearly? This doesn't include capital improvements.

Does anyone on here manage a farm or farms? I'd like to see so samples of contracts and if you guys could tell me things that absolutely should be in the contract.

We currently have around 20-25 calves that are in the 500 lb. range needing to be weaned. Our other calves (about 100 more) are 200-300 lb. range. I usually don't think about it much but what is the best option for these 20-25 heavier ones? Sell them now, wean them/sell them, take them to...

If their BSC is # 4 Would this be considered a steer that has a good BSC for 600lb.

What will calves look like from Charolais cows bred to an Angus bull? Do these calves grow well and sell good? How are Charolais cows disposition usually? Thanks

I've got a chance to buy some good Simmental cows and I was thinking of putting a good Angus bull on them. Anyone on here run these Sim-Angus cattle and how have they performed? Thanks

Trying to decide if I should buy some bred cows/heifers to start my herd or keep running stockers as I've been doing. Don't have enough land to do both but enough to do one or the other. I'm in west Tn. Seems stockers are dang high now so I'm torn on what to do. :|