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[wynedot55]

thanks for answering my q.if i could get my nephews to come back home.id rent another dairy an start milking again.but that wont ever happen.so ill stay with my reg beefmasters.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Have either of you considered raising heifers to springing and then selling them?

wynedot you would have more the ability to even custom raise for someone.

 

[wynedot55]

kitty i tryed raising calves out of the sale barn hol bulls an crossbreed heifers.an i lost money left an right.because i couldnt get things going right.so i finally gave up an quit raising them.sitt down down till i got in beefmasters.then the fire started burning in my gut.an i was slowly becoming alive again.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

kitty i tryed raising calves out of the sale barn hol bulls an crossbreed heifers.an i lost money left an right.because i couldnt get things going right.so i finally gave up an quit raising them.sitt down down till i got in beefmasters.then the fire started burning in my gut.an i was slowly becoming alive again.

Then I guess it wasn't meant to be. Beefmasters are your lot! It was just an idea anyway.

 

[wynedot55]

i pay more for a beefmaster than i ever paid for a dairy cow let me tell you.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

i pay more for a beefmaster than i ever paid for a dairy cow let me tell you.

I would imagine.

 

[Imissmygirls]

Kitty,
That's basically what we did with 4H heifers. We only milked the one heifer we could not find a home for. THis was 10 yrs ago or so when noone around here wanted a Jersey.
NOW.... they are so hard up for heifers that the local registered Holstein herd milks some crossbreeds too. such blaspheme!!
I'd love to have babies here again but... my big hutch was ruined in a storm some years back and at $500-plus a heifer on the ground, it's an expensive hobby I can't afford. We took out the fence last summer and now DS bales the field for his critters.
DD and DS have barns, so I will live vicariously through them and their babies. It's not quite the same tho. I made sure my grand-calves all would come to me as well as their "parent" just in case the parent was nowhere to be found!

my puppy is 100 lbs... and I can bring her in the house with us. So when I get calf-fever, I slap her on the side and rub her down and she loves it! Her kisses are less sloppy too

My parents always said if they wanted to find me as a child, they would look in the barn and there I would be, in the feed trough, with my arm wrapped around a cow's neck, sucking my thumb.

 

[wynedot55]

that is why we all love the cattle business.

 

[Imissmygirls]

My 18 month old granddaughter has the *bug*. She cries if Daddy doesn't take her out to feed. She was thrilled when the cold wet new calf came inside to warm up and dry out.
She loves to collect the eggs.
She begged to sit on a BIG horse like the other kids when she was 12 months- and didn't want to leave it.
And kittens come to her.

I can't WAIT for her to grow up!! I just know that somehow, somewhere she will be with animals always.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

My 18 month old granddaughter has the *bug*. She cries if Daddy doesn't take her out to feed. She was thrilled when the cold wet new calf came inside to warm up and dry out.
She loves to collect the eggs.
She begged to sit on a BIG horse like the other kids when she was 12 months- and didn't want to leave it.
And kittens come to her.

I can't WAIT for her to grow up!! I just know that somehow, somewhere she will be with animals always.