It's a $300.00 cow thats dropped heifers for me, sweetest animal you'd ever want to be around. If every Jersey was like her, people wouldn't want dogs or cats! She about paid for herself the first year feeding bummers. Milk replacer was running me about $60.00 for every 10 lambs from birth till weaning, maybe a little more. 40 some bummers go through a lot of milk replacer. She ate grass, hay and couple pounds of corn and oats mix at milking. Lambs did way better too. I call it a win. Maybe others wouldn't. I only have 1 bummer this year and she's still eating frozen milk from last year while the cow is nursing 2 calves on pure pasture.
I really get what you're saying. Dairy replacements I lost my shirt on. Pigs won't seem to breed for me and they won't do well on my pasture like all the stories say they will. Beef I did okay on but I sold out because it was too much work for the money and I needed to buy fencing. The fencing money went elsewhere and beef shot through the roof. Sheep, we got into them so my wife could mess with her Border Collies. Well, the dogs didn't pan out but the sheep did well. When I wasn't trying to raise sheep I was averaging well over $100.00 a head for zero input beyond round bales. Once I started trying to raise sheep and break even at least everything went south. The local market dropped like a rock and we ended up having to ship to new Holland Pa to get a decent price. Last guy that shipped had 6 head stolen right off the dock and never heard of them again. Those were nice lambs too.
Anyway, I get it. I'm just trying to find a balance point. What I got now ain't it.
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