How Profitable Are Beef Cows & Sheep?! | Farming Simulator 22

Im guessing nobody know how that would work if you started with grass (then you watched this video and realized hay makes the steers worth more) and switch to hay, how that would effect the steer price?

Animals aint good unless you can use their products in a factory. Too bad i cant find a good map with a meat factory

I have gotten a price for clothes for over 30000

Very intresting that there is no reson for giving your cows TMR over hay. Yes your getting abit less slurry and manure but with how little it sells for i´m not so sure its worth making TMR when u can instead just give them hay. Also Silage sells really good and when not used in TMR can make u alot of cash.
For the sheep space is gonna be the real issue if u wanna grow the new lambs your getting overtime and sell them at peak value. U kinda need a pen with a bigger capacity to not run into space issues everytime your getting new lambs.

Cows suck your pockets dry, Sheep are the best one bail of hay every 3 month's

In March 17, 2023 in the game things have changed. Bigtime. I am not sure if the game or the mods. I can not find the Brown Swiss or the Dairy Sheep. for some reason. Also the egg production was hit. I think it was due to the ducks same with the sheep with the goats. I am not even sure animals are worth it any more truthfully. We now have Bulls. Rams and goats and ducks. I do not see the point if you are selling milk and eggs and using them in your productions. Questioning is the Ducks Goats worth the pin space?

Am playing a beef cattle farm right now. I have a 200 and 400 (both modded) cowshed, although a 300 would do as the bigger one as well. In the breeding barn I have 2 sets of 66 breeding cows, with reproduction 5 months apart, leaving room for 66 calves. Those calves get moved to the large barn, where I just ignore them (no food or water) until they've aged. Doing this gets a 5 month cycle, where you sell off the 66 mother cows for a good 200k, move the calves to the aging pasture, take 66 ready to reproduce cows from there to the breeding barn and the cycle is set up. You could do with feeding grass for 4 months in the breeding barn and just TMR in the last month before selling, if you really want to min max it. You can use this setup with any 2 to 3 ratio barn and use one or more breeding groups. The more groups you use, the more efficient you use the space in the barn. Just make sure to always leave room for calves, so with one breeding group it's 1/2 the barn size, with 2 it's 1/3, with 3 it's 1/4 etc.

Just bought some sheep. Now if you have 65 sheep in the yard and you get a lamb, wil the number show 66 sheep? Or will you not receive it because you sheep barn was maxed out at 65 sheep?

Me and my friends just started playing on a server and I started up my sheep and horse farm and this will help a lot you really out here doing gods work man keep up the good work

That’s great thank you !

Cows don’t need straw. You can feed them grass and hay and get 100%

Sell ​​the animals at the same price regardless of the game's difficulty?

Please correct me if I’m wrong but from rearing cows, the most cost effective way is just to feed hay. Silage is around 3 times more expensive but does not generate 3 times more slurry or manure. Reproduction rates are also equal which means that it costs more to breed.

Am I understanding your numbers right in thinking there is no advantage to TMR with Beef Cattle unless you want manure or slurry? Purely on selling the animals there is no difference in sale price between TMR fed and Hay fed.

When you add production chains.....it gets crazy........sheep are one of the first animals I get...... That and chickens

Fantastic video. Just what I was looking for. Subbed.

I always just use slurry an manure on my fields, its like free fertilizer. An store bought fertilizer isn't cheap.

I always thought these calculations of lamb profits flawed. You need free space to be able to breed than raise it to 36, so you are messing a lot to move about all those lambs. What i was thinking is just buy as many lambs as possible fully stacking your farms, and sell when fully matured and replace with fresh lambs. No messing about, don't see losing money using half empty pen and breeding versus fully stocked bought lambs.

I had 4 sheep barns 4 spinnery's and ended up with so much wool that I cant sell it any where. I also had the same issue with cotton. I ended up selling 2 of the sheep barns and putting in some cows to see how that goes. Love the videos thanks for all of the time that you take to make them. Just to let you know I'm on FS22.

Just getting into farming simulator. Your videos have helped a ton! Great info provided quickly without BS. You deserve way more subs

Great video, but I don't think your comparison between selling wool (£107,000) and selling lambs (£520,000) makes much sense.
If you place a sheep barn, buy the sheep and feed them for 48 months, you are garanteed to get the income from the wool.
If you want to get £520,000 from selling the lambs, you will have to wait a total of 83 month to sell the last batch (born when the original sheep are 47 month old + 36 months). More importantly you need sheep barns to hold all of those 520 sheep at the same time (8 large barns + the original one), which cost a lot and takes up a lot of space. Additionally you have to feed all those 520 sheep for 36 month each.

MrSealyP did a test with the different breeds of sheep and the Black Welsh Mountain sheep produced more wool and consumed less grass/hay than the other breeds. Also, there's something wrong with your pricing on the sheep, because you can clearly see that the price for the black Welsh is much higher to purchase mature ones than the other three breeds. Why then would they not be worth any more than any of the other sheep when you go to sell them yourself? That just doesn't make any sense.

I have dairy cows for obvious reasons, sheep for wool and chickens for eggs, I need what they produce more than to sell them so, I mixed 25% adults and 75% kids and the wool is lagging behind, a lot compaired to eggs/adult chicken……I’m getting 8 per adult chicken/month so, my hogs are just for manure/slurry and I got just kids

Amazing video! Thank you very much

If you buy 65 sheep though qnd max out pen they where will the lambs go ?

So, how to go about it then, if you max out the sheep pen, then they can't breed can they? So maybe start with 30 lambs o similar and then sell as soon as a the oldest lambs reach 36 months, but I mean it will fill up pretty quick won't it ?

How are sheep now after the update compared to this video?

Hey buddy! I really love your informational videos about animals, the most thorough numbers I've ever seen! Do you plan to do one for dairy cows too? Would love to see that!

Great work Scroft :)

Being from Texas I'm kinda upset they took out the Brahman breed.

Thank you for doing these series, they have really been helpful.

So do you get 2 calves from a cow in the 18-36 month period? If so, ideally you'd sell the cows after the second calf is born to maximize profits while increasing your herd size.

It would make more sense to annotate the number of offspring at the time they're at the highest price rather than just the farthest you held on to them, arbitrarily.

Just a tought, but so if you would want to have the lambs keep getting bred, you would need to make 65*8 for the first five month, then buy another 8 barns after these are bred, and so on and so on, how the... Are you supposed to make this doable, if you would keep all of them for 36 months

Big man really impressive video. Would you consider making similar guide on horses?

Can you fill the pen and still reproduce? I was under the impression that the total number of animals you could have was the number it says...so I guess my question is, if you fill the pen/barn when you first buy cattle or sheep will they still reproduce?

Thank You!

Just as info you need more then 1 barn for sheep to get those numbers you actually need 8!! you would need 2 barns at 32 sheep and then move lambs over to new barn and keep reproducing. Month 1 would be 32 sheep.
month 12 would be 64
M17 =96 M22=128 M23=160 M27=192 M28=256 AND SO ON .... needless to say by month 36 you would have 448 sheep with just 1 purchase of 32 and by month 48 you would have 1216 soooo. a big headache to say the least. The easiest way I have found is multiply the amount of barns you want by 65 then divide that by the weeks you want to keep the sheep for. and thats your flat line number every month to keep you will sell the lambs to maintain that number and sell your old sheep. So for example i want to have 3 barns so 3*65=195. i want to sell the sheep at 36 weeks so 195/36=5.41. So month's 1-11 i will buy 5 Lambs every day. On month 12 they start reproducing at 5 a time. At month 17 there will be 10 Lambs so i will sell 5 and keep 5. Month 22 there will be 15 lambs so i will sell 10 and keep 5. Month 27 there will be 20 Lambs you will sell 15. Month 32 there will be 25 you will sell 20 and then on month 37 you will have 30 and you will sell 25. After that every month you should have 30 Lambs born and you will sell 25 @ 200 = $5,000 plus you will sell 5 36week old at $1000 = $5000 making your total just from selling Lambs $10,000 a month $120,000 a year or $360,000 every 3 years/36 months

If i own FS19 should I upgrade to FS 22

You are to FS22 as WackyJacky was to PubG! Countless hours of meticulous effort to provide great data for the everyday user. You really have to plan out your farm in this game, so your work is invaluable to us! Thank you for the excellent content! I’d say keep it up, but I don’t want you to get burned out from it lol

If you fill 65 sheep in your stable and they reproduce, where do the lambs go? If I have a second epmty stable will they automatically move there or do I have to split the sheep on both?
Also thanks for the detailed explanations

Great video, thanks for doing all this research, though there is one thing about when to sell the cows, you say 36 months, cause you get 3600 per cow, but if you sell at 24 months you can get 3000 per cow, and if you do the math, you can then sell 24 months 3 times in the time span where you can sell 36 months cows, which makes these numbers.

24 3*3000=9000 Subtract 900 for buying 3 cows for this 72 month timespan and you will have a profit of 8100 or 2700 per cow Total profit 8100
36 2*3600=7200 Subtract 600 for buying 2 cows for this 72 month timespan and you will have a profit of 6600 or 3300 per cow Total profit 6600
This is not including prices for food.

But magic number for selling will be 24 months for best proifit.

sheep got a BUFF in 1.2

Thanks for your very hard work with this and the other animals which has helped me plan the amount of crops I need to grow for all of them

Did this change with the new patch?

TMR has the same selling value as Hay? Isn't silage more valuable than hay in fs22?

Awesome video.
The only confusing part (or I missed it) is what is the baseline to start with as you have to account for the lambs as you have to wait 36 months until sellinng.

I don’t understand really how I have to start with sheeps? Like buying half of the barn and wait until they reproduce and sell adults at 35?

What happens if you have a maxed out pen and the sheep have calves?

If one barn is maxed out, how do you know they replicate? If we build an empty barn, will the sheep or cows that are born be automatically put in the empty one?