Posted by bison on March 12, 2012 at 22:57:32 from (69.168.144.133):
In Reply to: Anyone Raise Bison? posted by Jerry/MT on March 12, 2012 at 09:38:08:
Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see.A good handling system lets one or two do the job of sorting and loading.I they have to go trough the sqeeze a third person will speed things up.More than 3 people becomes only a nuicance.
A well designed buffalo system don't have to cost more than a beef system.
I work my bison by myself,no yelling,cussing or getting mad.
Bison are not any wilder than a bunch of longhorns or angus.It usually is the ignorance of the handlers when things go wrong.
If people have to revert to shooting them in the field is because they have a local market or they have no handling system to speak of or they lack the knowledge how to.
The people that went broke were the greedy ones that invested big when the breeding market was at the peak and sold out when the market crashed cause there was no meat market.I sold out when the prices started to dip and still made some money.I stayed in it trough the low years by buying calves back for $50 a head and letting them multiply,then started selling the bulls when the market improved again.there were years i didn't make any,butI never lost a buck on them.There never was a "glut",just a lack of meat market.That caused the crash.The BSE had a hand in it too.
Things have come full circle now,and demand for bison meat all over the world is at an all time high which is reflected in the high prices the bison processors pay for any bison.
Bison is hear to stay,we just need more producers.They are not a "fad" like the emus or llama.
Bison is an exellent choice for people that want to farm and have an off farm job and little time to do the farming cause unlike beef cows,bison take very little work and will look after themselves.If you are in cattle country it may be wise to vacinate,cause the beef diseases could be a treath to the bison,not the other way around. bison have a very high immunity system but are succeptable to common cow diseases.
Land is the same price wether you run beef or buffalo :roll:
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