In this study, it was aimed to determine the sources of financing of dairy cattle breeders enterprises in Elazığ province and to determine the relations between various enterprises features and financial resources.A total of 50 dairy cattle enterprises under the member of the Elazığ Cattle Breeders Associations, which is determined by snowball sampling method, constitute the sample of the study. The differences between the two independent study groups were analyzedbyStudent's t-test and the Mann Whitney-u test.The relationship between financial sources and various enterprisescharacteristics was evaluated by Fisher's exact test and chi-square test.The participants of 74%reported that they were unableto accumulate capital with the income they had earned from livestock, and 96% reported that they were paying their debts, which they could not pay in time, by selling/cutting their animals. In the financing of capital, there was a significant difference between the average of total cattle and annual milk production (p=0.042) when 44% of enterprises used creditsin addition to their own resources, compared to those who did not use credits. The dependence of credit usage among management characteristics suchas number of employees (p=0.033) and insurance of animals (p=0.019) was found to be statistically significant.The number of animals in the enterprises and the capital requirement increase together with the increase of milk production. On the other hand, the increase in the number of people working in enterprisesandthe growth of the herd increase the need for credit use. Daily cattle enterprises working with low profit margin, insufficient capital accumulation in enterprises and the payment of overdue debts tosell/cut off the cattlescauses enterprises to lose their production tools and sustainability in production.