Weasel
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Sitting here wondering if there would be a living to be made with suckler cows, on rented ground and rented sheds, with bought in fodder
With calves sold store.
With calves sold store.
Devil is in the detail,what rent are you paying and have you got a cheap source of fodder. You also have to work with cheap cows none of the £2000 + outfits, as long as they have milk they will do. If you can pull all these things together you have a chance.Sitting here wondering if there would be a living to be made with suckler cows, on rented ground and rented sheds, with bought in fodder
With calves sold store.
Plenty do on rented farms. Are you intending buying in all the fodder.Sitting here wondering if there would be a living to be made with suckler cows, on rented ground and rented sheds, with bought in fodder
With calves sold store.
yes, if you chose the right breed of sucklerWould there be a living if you squeezed their tits everyday?
Or get shut down with the dreaded TBMy best cows were native breed, lived on nothing and produced stores for grazing enviro schemes. First year was alright, then second year old age of the cows started costing. All profit from first year wiped out.
Cheap to keep cows produce a lower value calf so you need alot of them to make a lump of money, better quality cows produce higher value calves so you need less of them.Devil is in the detail,what rent are you paying and have you got a cheap source of fodder. You also have to work with cheap cows none of the £2000 + outfits, as long as they have milk they will do. If you can pull all these things together you have a chance.
Would there be a living if you squeezed their tits everyday?
Also a noWould there be a living if you squeezed their tits everyday?
Sitting here wondering if there would be a living to be made with suckler cows, on rented ground and rented sheds, with bought in fodder
With calves sold store.
Are you asking with taxpayer support included, or without ?
Cheap to keep cows produce a lower value calf so you need alot of them to make a lump of money, better quality cows produce higher value calves so you need less of them.
Watched a program once about salers in france suckling calves and being milked to produce butter or cheese, very labour intensiveWith a bit of Lean management… there is something, marginal but something.
My own personal belief is that If I wanted to keep elephants I would open a zoo so I keep small cows who eat less and preform.
Have a notion of returning to multi suckling next year to for my sins too.
Always had this crazy idea of a once a day milker/suckler hybrid to try to squeeze that little bit extra out of them