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Money left on the Table

I am in denial, no in fact I know I am completely normal, oh here is a photo
from 2 days ago.

:D
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Dylan Biggs said:
Is HAA affiliated with CAA(Cattle Aholics Anonymous).? :D :D

I have come to believe it is an incurable affliction, oh well
:shock: :D :D
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It may be incurable, but admitting is the first step towards some sort of recovery. Maybe we could organize Ranchers.net group therapy :lol: .

Nice pic :D . If I ever win my war with Photobucket, I'll get some up too. This is the absolute best time of the year to look at cattle :D .
 
WR I look forward to seeing some of your photos. Calves and yearlings can look their best this time of the year, some of the older and younger cows and breeding bulls can look a little worse for wear right now though so I guess it depends on which class a guy is looking at.

But to get this thread back on track this HAA and CAA talk to me is an example of a species preference /bias that is prevalent in the ranching psyche and as a result I am sure money is left on the table as a result of not being prepared to consider sheep or goats or other potentially profitable species or even mixed species enterprises. Canadian lamb production only meets half the domestic consumption, the rest is imported and consumption is on the rise, yet how many cattle guys are seriously investigating or contemplating how to capitalize on this situation?

Just a thought. :-)
 
PureCountry said:
I am. There's 1 for sure. :wink:
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Good for you PC!

We had 70 ewes for a while and I am trying to work up the courage to have another go at it.

We have a few pigs running around our yard also.

None of these new enterprises are ever as easy in reality as in theory though. :-)
 
I think in adding sheep a group of guys should get together enough to make it viable and go out and hire somebody who knows what the heck they are doing to herd them. Our friends run 300 ewes right in the best wolf country in Sask. so it can be done. There are thousands of acres of cutblocks here that I'm sure a guy could get free grazing on. I learned enough from our foray into sheep that I hadn't learned enough lol. My grandparents ran sheep on our place when they settled here in 1917. I think if we did it again we'd run them with the cows as one herd or 'flerd' we did that before and never lost any at coyotes even out in the west meadows.
 
We used to run a lot of ewes for this part of the world (120-150). Then my brother went to college.
Sheep are pretty labour intensive, although profitable, especially with the changing ethnic mix in society. The biggest challenge is either shearing or finding knowledgeable shearers.
I think goats are pretty interesting, but I have no experience at all with them.
 
Actually, rental of cattle is a pretty profitable enterprise all the way around. Several times we have rented our replacement heifers for team penning / sorting. $25 per head per day adds up quite nicely. We also let the penning assoc. keep them for the winter a few times which was nice because it saved us the expense of keeping them plus they came home nicely horse broke.
 
Dylan Biggs said:
jodywy said:
with $1.40 lambs this year its great over $1000/AU don't know any range cows that make that off a calf....
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Good margin potential with those prices for sure! :)
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Only trouble with that is the coyotes lining up for $100/plate dinners. :???:
 

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