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| Rich, I understand your reasoning and where you're coming from too. "Here" livestock jobs are still mostly a neighbor helps neighbor thing. Nobody gets "hired" as in monetary terms except the vet who comes to the place for preg checking and Bangs vac job.
Vet also brings the nice hydraulic chute along with for a modest fee. Difficult calving cases like C-sections are normally hauled to the vet. Knock on wood, I haven't had a C-section done for years so don't know what one costs nowdays.
All of us regular flunky types are the "will work for food" type helpers. Sometimes we also convoy our stock trailers to the sale barn which includes the concept of "will haul cattle for food and we won't turn down a full tank of gas/diesel either".
The work for food plan is a great deal in itself, because all the ladies in the neighborhood are excellent cooks! Heck, we might even drag the job out on purpose until suppertime just 'cause of that. ;-) | |
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