Just made out the bill for the guy we milked/chored for from the 1-6th...$837.50 plus another $50.00 for the 2 nights the SU had to dink around and fix the busted web on the discharge of his mixer wagon. Had to bring some old parts of ours to get the job done. Almost enough to get one of us to Mexico. LOL We're going back there for 8 days next month, so our next trip should be pretty well taken care of. Have 4 days for another guy in May, he's got about 120 cows, but there will be help. I cannot milk there myself, as one side of his barn is too tall for me to plug in the milkers. Nice to know that we'll have another winter get-away in another 11 months. :>)
He's got 104 cows: I only charged him for 50 as I had help. Couldn't really keep track of who milked who, so charging for the 50 seemed like a fair way to do it. I charge $1.50 per cow per day, and the SU got $10/hr for all the feed mixing and scraping alleys and feeding the heifers. This place isn't too bad, but there is one place we go that I told him he wasn't working for $10/hr...........I was charging $15/hr since everything was such a PITA, and not even any decent shovels or 5 gallon pails with handles.
