Recent content by brandonm_13

Its a term representing small stocker cattle. I don't know if there is an official minimum, but around here flyweights are less than 400 pounds, usually something like a 300-350 pound calf, but I know some that are getting 250 pound flyweights.

Here they seem to run about 50-90 more per hundred weight.

More of a question of whether or not you have any prices written down when y9ou go to a sale to help guide your purchases, or whether you just wing it.

Wondering who uses a buyers card? Do you have one you can find online or do you make your own?

I get shrinkage, but still question calling a 599 pound calf a 5 weight.

Is no one else bothered that a 600 pound takes a dump just before going over the scales and it went from being a 6 weight to a 5 weight? Of course, we don't have 599 pound steers. The scales either show 595 or 600.

When I worked feed stores, we used to require a minimum of 10 tons to have truck come and spread it. The cost ranged from $20-30 per ton (this was about fifteen years back). I priced some lime from the same company but a different county this year. She told me there was a minimum of 24 tons to...

WAIT. Before you answer, I know what the term 5 weight and 6 weight means. Here's what I'm asking. What weight do YOU call a 5 weight steer, and what weight do YOU call a 6 weight steer? Do you call a calf that weighs 550 or higher a 5 weight, or do you differentiate with your terminology?

So I'm wanting to get some updated information for my large animal science class. I used to have a report that showed how much discount each coat color received vs black (if someone has that, I would appreciate a link). But that report was several years back and was not regional. So if you...

Awesome to see cattle moves like that. It's still done a bit around here, but more on dirt roads. However, I saw a picture about a month back in the neighboring county where the police stopped traffic so a farmer could move cattle from pastures on one side of the road to pastures on the other. I...

Plummer???

Will try to post results if/when I see them posted.

Apparently Giddings Texas. My first thought was palpated and bred cows or heifers...

Giddings livestock Facebook page Was a typo and I asked for clarification and jp palates (supposed to be palpates) was jackpot palpates... No terminology I've ever heard. Pasted below. Expecting 1600-1800 with 350 cows for tomorrow! So far we have in: black bull, guaranteed yellow bull...

Came across this term from an auction in a different state. I've never heard the term used in my neck of the woods. Could someone enlighten me.