How many acres per calf of grass do you need per calf to raise it to butches weight?
What are the normal costs involved?
What are the normal costs involved?
Bottle fed calves are cute, but dangerous as yearlings. They just wanna play, but will F you up if you're not careful. If you can help it, do not pet & love on 'em.
Bottle fed calves are cute, but dangerous as yearlings. They just wanna play, but will F you up if you're not careful. If you can help it, do not pet & love on 'em.
Ever been licked by a damn “pet cow”? A neighbor had a 4-H calf that turned pet ... when you came up their dogs would come up to greet you with a friendly bark and that damn cow (1 year old or so) would come up mooing. I swear she actually thought she was a dog. If you weren’t paying attention she’d lick you ... and a damn cow tongue is huge, rough and full of nasty slobber ... plus smells 10X worse than any dog. Like Carl said she got to big and quickly “disappeared”.Bottle feeding is also dangerous approach if someone intends raise one for meat. Very educational and fun for kids but very easily turn into pet status with mom and the kids. Just word of advice that you may still be feeding a full grown cow and having to get that steak at a store. Lol
we are fencing in these 3.5 acres for a bull, cow and bred heifer....this was sweetgum 20 year old cutover less than a year ago.
That is the results of forestry mulching last Sept. I havent seeded it with anythingWow, I have been looking for property over the past year and have 'walked' several overcut parcels (it was more like weave, scramble, and hack through) and I am amazed you could turn something like that into a productive pasture in less than a year.
Apologies for the thread diversion, but how did you tackle it and what did you seed the pasture with?
Well I guess the rumors about dormant seeds on the forest floor are more than true!That is the results of forestry mulching last Sept. I havent seeded it with anything
Well I guess the rumors about dormant seeds on the forest floor are more than true!