We made decent money dealing with the low end cattle. Would buy 1 here or there. Maybe a big knee, a limper, bad eye, just whatever was cheap. I always had a quality bale in the bale ring, and cracked corn and DDG( dried distillers grain) pellets in the self feeder. The most I ever had at one time was 8, and we would try to market the carcass about as soon as we had them up to full feed. Facebook was our friend there. We were selling a smaller leaner carcass, and selling nearly twice what the board was for beef. It worked well at the beginning, but there at the end, the local auctioneer got to buying the same junk cattle I was trying to buy, and I couldn't make it work on good cattle. I had my own grinder mixer (traded a quart of Jack Daniels for) ground with either a $400 800 Case, or a $2000 830 Case. Put up my own hay on hay ground that cost me little or nothing to rent. I did have to buy the corn and DDG. The last 2 years I made enough money to pay for the fuel to feed them and provide myself with beef.
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