Conundrum . . .

[GTB]

It might be instant income but I'm not so sure about profit! lol

I'll go get my violin

 

[unlacedgecko]

I'll go get my violin

Can you play me " the devil went down to Georgia"?

 

[Headless chicken]

Tack dairy heifers. Easy to keep at home when there small not so easy when big. Buy easy calving bull. Make lots of money

 

[Old Tip]

If it's the sort of ground I graze you won't need a massive number of cattle to graze it and if you do it right you will have minimal costs. Only issues will be handling pens and outlay ones bit of hard feed to keep them sweet and easy to capture. We have one lump that's 70 acre and keep 14 head on it all year round with no extra feed. Take them as yearlings sell them fat, no rent, no feed, no equipment equals income.

Did you get your sheep issue sorted ?

 

[ajcc]

If it's in environmental agreements may find choice is limited to native rare breeds?

 

[liammogs]

Some little welsh black/galloway/hereford stores etc to start maybe or buy bunches of stores.....to a set budget so say £600 buy everything and anything you might not have a pretty herd of cattle but it may prove more profit......theres more money in funny looking cattle than pretty ones!! Any heifers that you think ars suitable to bull put one side every year say 10 out of 50 this then means not so much is tied up and you keep cashflow

 

[Dry Rot]

I remember being told a similar story of land being unlettable back in the 1930s? The tenant ring fenced the land somewhere down south and imported a train load of sheep from Scotland. I gather that was a success.

Not so long ago I was chatting to someone I was at school with who had moved to France to farm. The prices for mutton were very different back then. We were exploring the possibilities of taking a lorry load or two of sheep from Scotland across to France. The idea somewhat escalated when my friend came up with a customer who wanted to purchase 30,000 lambs. I soon found a dealer who thought buying that number was not a problem. (Lairg mart used to sell 30,000 in one day). Then we discovered who the dealer in France was. Anyone remember the scandal of a similar scheme in Wales that went tits up when they got sheep scab on the holding farm? That was quite a story. Anyway, the man disappeared leaving a horror in animal welfare and was last reported to be buying horses in Eastern Europe. With any luck, he will now be behind bars.

 

[Jonny_2]

Out of interest how much would you could you charge for summer cattle grazing per head per week?

I'm growing more grass every year but haven't enough time for more sheep at present or capital to buy my own cattle.

Was thinking around £3 per head per week including checking them?

 

[pine_guy]

Out of interest how much would you could you charge for summer cattle grazing per head per week?

I'm growing more grass every year but haven't enough time for more sheep at present or capital to buy my own cattle.

Was thinking around £3 per head per week including checking them?

How many do you want?

 

[Goatherderess]

The beauty of B and W's is that you can buy them weaned , nip them .

what does "nip them" mean?

 

[unlacedgecko]

what does "nip them" mean?

Castrate them with a burdizzo.

Can be legally done at up to 8 weeks of age.