My wife, kids, and I are planning on buying a ranch and moving back to the mainland (Wyo/Mont) and have been toying with the idea of setting up a place and calving 1st calf heifers until I can get a herd built. What would be a fair price per heifer? I was figuring feed and 60-90 days. I know of one place that calved the heifers kept them for the year and rebred them. sent them back bred three year olds, in exchange the got the calves. How willing would ranches be to go this route. The ranch I'm looking at will run about 300AU
Thanks for any input.