If you want to do it,try it is all I can say. The older I get,the less passion I have for it,but I'll probably keep it up for a while. Being there at calving time might be your biggest problem. I told a neighbor one time that I had to get home,I had a cow about to calve. He told me not to worry about it,they've been doing it forever,but things still go wrong,VERY wrong.
I can tell you with 30 head,you'll probably go through anywhere from 2 round bales a day to 3 every other day. Figure on loosing a few calves a year,maybe an open cow or two then figure the value of the calves vs the cost of the feed.
As far as not checking them every day,I don't know what to tell you. I very seldom have any out,but I got woken up this morning by somebody pounding on the door telling me one was out. They do things like that on their own schedule,not yours.
I suppose what you want to do is doable,but don't plan on sleeping through the night every night. There'll be times when you'll wish you'd never heard the word cow.
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