ollie989898
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Why not simply sell your labour/shed and let the owner of the cattle provide the straw and feed as you do with the pigs? Your risk is then minimised?
i think he will need some luck if buying every thing in, 1.2 kg dlwg wont be any good imhoYou are effectively running a feedlot with no home-grown feed? And taking a risk that you will not get a bonus for reaching a quite decent weight gain of 1.2kg per day, so they need to be decent continentals. And having to get rid of a lot of muck and slurry?
Cattle need dry matter of 2% body weight daily for maintenance. Average 350kg needs 7kg dry matter daily. You can start to do sums on where you get that dry matter from but with no silage it will be expensive.
Why not but 10 yourself and take all the risk -and profit?
Good luck.
If you want them year round, they're easy enough to get a hold of. If you just want them in the winter when everyone else does you'll struggle to secure a consistent supply.I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this- brewers grains are a PITA to secure supply of. The supply is controlled by a couple of players who are more interested in mixing them with other products to add margin than simply selling them direct.
Are you providing silage/haylage or just the shed and work?Hello, new to this site. wanted to get an idea of what might be the going rate for keeping stores for b&b on slats. Might have the chance of a shed and trying to see if it would be something that would be of interest to someone. Scottish Borders. Thanks
Yeah, usually the owners supplies concentrates, vet bills, transport. I’d of thought depending on age size and breed anywhere from £1 to £1.50 an animalWould be providing forage, water and labour. Do they operated much like pigs where the owner of the animals provide any hard feed, veterinary costs and transportation?
Thank you for thisYeah, usually the owners supplies concentrates, vet bills, transport. I’d of thought depending on age size and breed anywhere from £1 to £1.50 an animal
I used to mix all my feed for 400 bulls against a shed wall with the loadal bucket ,hate diet feeders , tipped it all in add lib bunckers ,had my own crimped barley and bought the rest on least cost options