I visited a cow milk farm years back on a sales call & don’t know a ton about farming, but he had about 50 yards long and about 10 yards wide & about 5’ high of compost that he said he could sell for $100,000. 😳. His guys were patching holes from a hail storm which is why we were talking about it.

I'm betting most of his neighbors had heaps about the same, too. In fact, the only way he'd ever get that kind of price is to front all the costs of transportation for it, bag it, & sell it in the city.

If you're one of the other farmers, you've already got all the bullshit you need & more being produced every day.

Kinda like the old saw, "There's a cow overseas that you can buy for $1."

But compared to shipping expense, you'd be better off buying excellent stock locally for $5,000; it would be less expensive & a guarantee of quality.

Wishful thinking.

I'd rather have silver in my "bank," LOL.

The cost of fuel for that manure factory has gone through the roof - they DEFINITELY do not want us owning animals... it makes us independant.

3 years ago, a 3 string (approx 100lb) bale of orchard grass, was $21... now, $32...

My 1100 horse goes through 55 of those in 6 months.

He produces about 30lb of manure a day. (that all goes into the veg plot to be ploughed under).

He also needs his feet trimming ever 5 weeks - $60

The vet calls 2 times a year for his shots and check his teeth - $500 a year.

You will feed 2 - 3 times and shovel poop every. single. day. No matter what the weather is, or, what your plans are.

Livestock of any variety are a big responsibility, are time consuming, and expensive. But, you will love having them and, once you do, you will not be able to imagine not having them.

Your last sentence said it all. I'm practically a vet, have worked as farrier, I do all my own shoots & float their teeth myself. When one of our dairy goats her udder on a barbed wire fence, we cleaned it, approximated edges & stapled her back together. She still milked perfectly at her next freshening...

Already, my routine is up at 5, start prepping pig food at 6 (they get a hot mash 2x/day), prep dog food at 7, then feed all at 7:30... Fill bathing places & water tubs, yadda, yadda...

The way you describe it sounds like expense & work, but if you're used to doing it all yourself, without vets, once you no longer have stock, you don't know what to do with yourself.

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Thank you so much for that lead!

I have sent her a message & am hoping she will respond.

Big hugs, fren!

Horses and Donkeys do the same, not all the time but generally they have certain places in the field they go to poop cause they dont want to eat the grass there.

All the horses I've ever raised were of the club that preferred to spread it far & wide, without regard... But I guess the bigger space they have, the less worried they get about contaminating it.

Most folks I know with horses have a set of old bedsprings that they hitch to the pickup & drive the pasture with to scatter it. Once scattered, the horses aren't bothered by it...

I'm eaten up with shit covet now every time I pass a place with visible horse piles, LOL.

WAY too focused on excrement these days.