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who raises livestock on here ?

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swindave

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just for fun, who still raises livestock on here?
just a few, or a lot,

i have beef cows, feeding a few steers, and chickens, lol, i need to build some fence!
very little livestock raised in my area, unless you contract feed for the big companies,

some whats running around your farm?
 
Been calving for a month and a half 550 head and the neighbors want me to come help calve another 650. Gotta project steer Im raising . Keep a saddle horse around I do a lot of cowboy work .
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I sold off my herd of about 50 black Angus cattle a little over a year ago. I kept three old girls that were nearly 20 years old and were born here on my farm. I also kept two horses that I've had for a long time. One of the horses developed cancer and died last fall.

I miss working the cattle until the winter snow/sleet/ice arrives (as it did with a vengeance a few weeks ago).

Tom in TN
 
I raise some steers and hogs right now. Just getting started at it. Hope to maintain about 10-15 steers and 30 pigs in a rotation. Everything gets sold direct.
 
At the moment I have 7 laying chickens, 6 chickens I just got for meat, 12 geese and a mini pig. In a couple of months I'm adding 6 turkeys, a goat and a couple of pigs for meat. I used to raise an occasional steer but at the time I could sell the hay for the same cost as buying the beef so I stopped growing steers. I didn't have a good set up for something that big anyway. Besides having eggs and meat they give me a reason to run some of my toys for hay and growing corn to feed them.
 
8 registered Limousin cows, 2 replacement heifers, finish some hogs for private sale, chickens for eggs.
Enough to make a few extra dollars and like most of us a reason to play farmer and get our ag fix.
 
Have 40 stock cows was up to 65 fifteen years ago. Sell calves around 500 to 550 lbs. Been at it since 1973. Winters are getting hard on these old bones. Don't know what I would do if I quit.
 
feeder calves, 2 show pigs, 2 horses, donkey, mule, about 40 goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, guineas, great Pyrenees guard dogs and peacocks.
 
Pigs 🐖 are fun and pretty low maintenance id like to get a few again I raised them through high school
 
Care to explain the 8 milk cows? That's too much for personal use and by most standards today too small for selling to a creamery. What is it you do with them?
 

75 Beef cows, we're about done with spring calving
Our main income is from our commercial broiler chicken operation, we raise around 650,000 chickens each year.
 
36 black Angus beef cattle. I still enjoy raising cattle cutting raking and rolling hay. Been retired 3 years after working 45 years at a defense company.
Sure makes it muck easier not having to work full time.

Phil form middle Tn
 
25 Angus cows and a bull, 4 Guernseys cows (A2 cheese and butter), 30 layers, 1 retired Hereford brood sow, 12 bee hives. Not many people produce much in this county anymore.
 
We raise beef cattle. Simangus. Also have chickens. Hope to raise some hogs soon, but I have been saying that for a few years!
 
They are Jersey and Holstein X with angus. We milk 2-4 most of the time. we try to have 2 calve at the same time. we put those 2 calves on the one we milked for 3-4 months. I just bought 4 more as we were running out of butter and 1 died. I needed a few extra as we are selling about 100-140lbs of butter a month plus milk cream and cottage cheese. The demand for on farm dairy has sky rocketed and I try to keep the neighbors happy. We have 9 children and have no oil in the house we just use butter for all our baking. I use a Angus X Simmental bull and trying to start a small beef herd. we now have 5 heifer calves from 3 months old to just over a year. we are milking 3 cows, 4 cows are dry, and 1 has 2 calves on right now. 2 of the dry ones are 3 teeters and will hopefully get the calves off the other 2 when they calve in April and May. I know the Government doesn't like me selling product but I just sell it as dog food and they can't do a thing about it. If people want it off farm I personally think that is there right.
 
I finish 8-10 steers a year for private sale and keep 75-100 chickens for egg sales. I usually fed out 6-8 turkeys every year to sell.
 
About 50 laying hens, selling eggs, chicks and chickens. Summer will see that number increase and quail will be here as well. Any roosters that come out of the brooder are kept over the summer in a separate coop and then sent for processing. 3 horses, 2 ponies and 2 mules, these are all for pleasure. Assorted cats for mouse catching in the barn. 3 dogs, two of them are working border collies.
 
Dairy cows went in '88, I kept the heifers a year after that but haven't had any livestock since. Have 1 dog and 1 cat. Adjoining neighbor has 25 head of beef cow/calf to finish, 15 hogs, bunch of sheep and chickens that I take care of for him on & off; gives me my livestock fix....
 
Have a few Low-Line Angus that are due this Spring, a Bull and a few more of various ages. Probably try to grow numbers some more. Have to have something to retire to. Also make hay. Sell some and feed some. Busy enough with a full time job as well.
 
I still have a Jersey herd, and milk cows
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This picture was take of me by my wife a few months ago, on the occasion of my 60th birthday. Been running my own dairy for 40 years. Started from nothing on a rented farm. I still like farming, but I cant go on forever. And I am trying to find the right way to transition the responsibility/ownership to my oldest son. I dont have to retire, but it is a problem to exit with some equity and not leave the next generation in a financial mess. Dairy farming has been my working life, but I have many interest.
 
I run cows and ewes with help from my son. Bought my first cows when I was fifteen will turn 62 next month. A few more years and I will be done. Still use a horse as that was how I learned to work cattle and still enjoy it today.
 
Yes I own cows, I'm 77 years old and owned cows the past 69 years. Mostly Simmental since 1969 a little Red Angus thrown in to keep them red. Our family ranch is leased out a nephew.My few cows are leased to my daughter and son-in-law in Wyoming. There are still cows on the ranch for 6 weeks in spring and two months in the fall. Most of the time I had been 150-& 200 cows.
 

I put some black angus steers out on the pasture one year years ago and sold them to my uncle's feed lot. On a per head basis I made 25 bux a head. On an hourly basis I was making about a dollar an hour. Between fixing fence and chasing spooked cattle that got out, decided it was more trouble than it was worth. Storms and this pipeline flying plane always spooked them. I watched that plane fly over and they took off running and jumped a 4 strand barbed wire fence. Someone told me to try a different type of cattle. They got out one night in a storm. I trailed them the next day till they took off in a wheat field and lost them. Alerted the sheriff and got a call the next day. They had run 8 miles south and ended up at a farm at the fence next to his cattle. He let them in and then we had to haul them back. One got out another time and ended up over at the neighbor's pasture with his cattle. Tried to rope him, pen him, and nothing worked. Neighbor said to leave him till he loads them up.

The horses and donkeys aren't that much trouble.
 
Hundred or so momma cows, a few weaned steers and heifers in the feedlot, 3 dozen boarding horses, and a few dozen barn and house cats.
 
Currently, 3 pure Berkshire sows and a Berk boar, one with bacon bits 5 weeks old, the other two due in about 2 months; 1 mutt (part boer/Oberhasli?) yearling doe, 7 more bred mutt goats, first one due any hour now, the rest over the next month or so, along with 2 bucks which keep each other company. We milk the goats for our own use, make cheese, and give any extra to the hogs. Also about 60 layer chickens, 20some of which are heading for Camp Soup when the weather warms enough to make their vacation pleasant for SWMBO working the clean side of the counter, and will put another 200 Freedom Ranger Broilers on pasture through the summer. Have a few heritage turkeys too, and will likely raise 25 broad breasteds for T-day. Then we're likely done, for good, all critters dispersed.
 
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