Processing a deer is an ok job to do at home. A cow is pretty huge and if you process your own, selling is very restricted. We sell about 16 a year as quarters and halves, and schedule with a processor a half year in advance.
Processing a deer is an ok job to do at home. A cow is pretty huge and if you process your own, selling is very restricted. We sell about 16 a year as quarters and halves, and schedule with a processor a half year in advance.
Hey weedom, I am really thinking of doing this but it could be beyond me to some extent. Need to know more. I have 10 ac in grass(hay) and 70 in woods. Can you guide me to a resource for a possible small beef operation with only, say, 2 cows? Figured I could elec. fence in the hay field.
Like your name, weedom. That has to be a tweak on Karmala's stupid story of here childhood, right?
With good rain and ground you could keep 2 cattle on 10 acres for sure, and 1 inexpensive way is to corral them in a smaller space that rotates, so they'll trim down the grass, and crap that up, stomp seeds in the ground, then you move them to the next spot, to let that patch recover. Temporary, mobile electric fence will work as long as their food supply and water is constant. Look up gang grazing too. you could trim a little woods back to get more acreage. We use a fair amount of temporary fence to direct where the cattle graze, or where we can store round bales away from them. You have to design a pathway between the grazing and shade/shelter and water. Lots of homesteaders are doing this small scale method.
(As for the name- I wanted to write about using the weeds for health independence. One of my colleagues asked me what my title would be, and it popped into my head: "weedom rhymes with freedom". After I chose it, I found that the 4/20 people already had used the word in relation to legalizing their favorite weed :-D but I kept the name anyway, because it has a good sound.
Processing a deer is an ok job to do at home. A cow is pretty huge and if you process your own, selling is very restricted. We sell about 16 a year as quarters and halves, and schedule with a processor a half year in advance.
Hey weedom, I am really thinking of doing this but it could be beyond me to some extent. Need to know more. I have 10 ac in grass(hay) and 70 in woods. Can you guide me to a resource for a possible small beef operation with only, say, 2 cows? Figured I could elec. fence in the hay field.
Like your name, weedom. That has to be a tweak on Karmala's stupid story of here childhood, right?
With good rain and ground you could keep 2 cattle on 10 acres for sure, and 1 inexpensive way is to corral them in a smaller space that rotates, so they'll trim down the grass, and crap that up, stomp seeds in the ground, then you move them to the next spot, to let that patch recover. Temporary, mobile electric fence will work as long as their food supply and water is constant. Look up gang grazing too. you could trim a little woods back to get more acreage. We use a fair amount of temporary fence to direct where the cattle graze, or where we can store round bales away from them. You have to design a pathway between the grazing and shade/shelter and water. Lots of homesteaders are doing this small scale method.
(As for the name- I wanted to write about using the weeds for health independence. One of my colleagues asked me what my title would be, and it popped into my head: "weedom rhymes with freedom". After I chose it, I found that the 4/20 people already had used the word in relation to legalizing their favorite weed :-D but I kept the name anyway, because it has a good sound.