does anyone rent out there pastures

bigmudder77 · #1 11/15/12, 06:29 PM

ok well we have someone that needs a place to put a about 500lb calf and we have 2 around 500lb calves now and he was wondering if we could have his come over and he is willing to pay 1/3rd of everything plus some cash every week or month for raising him and feeding and watering and housing and stuff

But my questions are

Has anyone ever done this or something like it? All I seem to find online is when there raising100s for someone else

And if it gets out or anything happens to it even if we have him sign a waver can we be held for anything that might happen and get sued?

And how much should we charge for the taking care of part?

And would it be worth getting in to or messing with?

Also put in writing to be signed before calf is even on the trailer that if he don't pay or has 2 months of non payment we get the calf to recover money lost. Will we get the calf or again get sued for taking it to auction or butcher for non payment?

Thanks in advance if anyone can answer this

rancher1913 · #2 11/15/12, 07:37 PM

around here room and board for a cow goes for between 2 and 2.50 per day/per head. most people take care of there own. death loss is still on the owner unless you are blatantly careless.

myersfarm · #3 11/15/12, 07:37 PM

I do not think it would be worth it

if you can sue over this you can be sued over anything....you might not lose but you will have to pay for a lawyer

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ycanchu2 · #4 11/15/12, 08:14 PM

I had a neighbor hint around about letting me let his calf he raises for beef run with my cattle for the winter.
after I thought about it I thought it wasn't such a good idea. Anything can happen to it, not likely, but it can.
I decided a better idea would be for me to sell him one of my calves when it gets big enough, and that way there would be no room for complications. you may have different ways of doing things than he does, it may not be growing as fast as he thinks it should or he may want you to do this or that.
if you want to help him just buy the calf yourself then sell it to him when it is ready.

bigmudder77 · #5 11/16/12, 04:54 AM

Yea kinda what I was thinking I mean we known him for a while but everyone seems to be sue crazy now a days I don't wanna have to go through all that bs and take time out of my day and a lot of added stress when its already stressed pretty high

I offered to buy it and then sell it to him at a fair price so that Imake money and he gets his cow back but he didn't wanna do that cause he lives paycheck to paycheck with a little extra each week so he wouldn't be able to buy it all from me when its ready plus he only wants to keep it for 12 months and its 5 months old now Ithink so he won't be getting much meat back in just having it a year unless he puts it in a small pen and feeds the crap out of it but even then its not gonna be much meat back

I was thinking of passing on it but just wondered if anyone on here would lead me to thinking more about doing it but yea I'm gonna pass on it

ycanchu2 · #6 11/16/12, 07:33 AM

he should just go to the stockyards and buy one that is discounted for various reasons, like a blue eye or horns or one that has a limp. A cow or calf that has pinkeye can go pretty cheap sometimes. My dad always said an old cow was the cheapest meat there was, just have her ground up into hamburger. He could buy a cull cow and take her straight to the slaughterhouse.

Gabriel · #7 11/16/12, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by bigmudder77

I offered to buy it and then sell it to him at a fair price so that Imake money and he gets his cow back but he didn't wanna do that cause he lives paycheck to paycheck with a little extra each week so he wouldn't be able to buy it all from me when its ready

Don't do business with someone who has no financial discipline.

bigmudder77 · #8 11/16/12, 09:58 AM

That's my thinking gabriel

And he alreadys has the calf and where its at there fighting or something and the want his calf and another calf out of there

Dreamfarm · #9 11/16/12, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by bigmudder77

That's my thinking gabriel

And he alreadys has the calf and where its at there fighting or something and the want his calf and another calf out of there

That should be your clue...run fast !

FarmerDavid · #10 11/16/12, 11:14 AM

I wouldn't do it. I've had an arrangement with an in law that I was trying to help out. When it's time to pay he's always broke. Of course last time he told me he was broke he showed up at sunday dinner with a brand new pair of high $ boots. Its been a nightmare, I won't do it again and were ending it dec 31.

On paper it was a pretty good deal for both of us, but he hasn't touched the fence rows he was supposed to clean out and has only made about half the payments.

My dads favorite saying "no good dead goes unpunished"

ycanchu2 · #11 11/16/12, 12:48 PM

He just needs to take it to the slaughterhouse, if it weighs 500# it'll make 250# or so of meat which will last a while if he don't have big family.