How much?

GrowerShower32 · Apr 29, 2017

Got some people asking me to work their cows, less than 50 head they would buy the vaccines, wormers etc, I would just have to work them how much would you charge? Per hour or per cow?

GoWyo · Apr 29, 2017

How good are their facilities? Are they bringing them up to the chute or do you have your own help? How long do you think it will take?

GrowerShower32 · Apr 29, 2017

The man is gonna buy all the supplies and it will be three of us working them. The facility is a brand new wooden corral and tarter chute system. He has right at 35 cows calves included. We speculate 4 to 5 hours to work them all. Start at 7:30/8ish and be done by lunchtime roughly

knabe · Apr 30, 2017

in my circle of friends, we do this to help each other and criticize each other on the quality or lack of it for food, like donuts, coffee, or burritos, quality of working facilities, where they sell their cattle, what bull is used, the size of the cows, how wild they are, who showed up at what time, who's in the way. all in good fun as once in a while, newbies are welcome and are helped out for a while by everyone. when you started getting criticized, you are part of the "team".

knabe · Apr 30, 2017

GrowerShower32 said:
The facility is a brand new wooden corral and tarter chute system.

look around the place. anything you can use and barter? maybe they can help you in a pinch. maybe you can find a way to upgrade something else for them for money. working cattle to me is more a relationship building tool. 35 head seems rather small to worry about. maybe it's different in your area than in mine.

cowpoke · Apr 30, 2017

I would be surprised if it took much over 2 hours max with good facilities and 3 people.We usually have the vet plus 3 people as we are cutting calves giving them 3 shots pouring everything and giving cows 2 shots and pouring and we did 40 cows plus calves but had a tub w/alley that holds 5 and it took about 2 hours. Depends what you think two hours of your time is worth.