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It’s a puzzle with a whole lot of pieces - most of which have been mentioned above. Lighter cattle of comparable quality will always bring more per pound. How much depends on if they’re long weaned, vaccinated, flesh, fill, where you are, what time of year it is, how big a group there is...

They’re commonly used here with 2 3/8” pipe posts (8’ spacing) and top rail. If that’s what you’re thinking, it will strengthen it considerably, and should be plenty solid for perimeter fence. I wouldn’t go more than 8” off the ground, though. We have some pens built this way, most with another...

It’s a very common practice. Depending on where you are, some state 4-H organizations even have a lease agreement that you can use. Some will say it violates the spirit of the rule, but basically as long as the registration papers are transferred by the shows required date of ownership, you’re...

Just saying half interest is a little vague as to whether it’s referring to semen interest or possession. The others are right about the semen interest - some breeders will say they’re retaining some percentage of semen interest in every bull they sell. Almost all of the time it will end up...

I sometimes loan out bulls, usually to someone with only a few cows of their own. They're people I know well, who are willing to use a bull at times I don't need him, and who take very good care of their stock. The bulls pretty much always come back in better condition than they left. So it can...

I'm not sure that those percentages are necessarily valid when crossing blue roans with red roans. Based on my experience (which is not huge, we run a handful of Shorthorn and blue roan cows in our club calf operation - many of our friends do too), crossing a blue roan with a red roan will most...

You're still not getting it. I said if he hadn't been a show steer (a good one at that) I would've done it myself, but I knew I'd have to dig around for it and I didn't want to get him bleeding badly. This steer went on to make the premium sale at Tulsa State Fair and brought $4000 there for...

Thanks cowgirl8. It was no joke. Try reading the entire post - it was a show steer. And the surgery wasn't anything dramatic - he did it with the calf standing in the chute, went through what was left of the sack, just took a few minutes, cost $65 if I remember right. I probably could have...

Once bought a show steer that had been banded. He was a March calf, we got him around the first of December. By February we started suspecting he might still have one, but couldn't feel it standing up. When we laid him on the hoof trimming table we could though. Took him to a vet I know that...

Okay, not sure I read every response here word for word, but I do want to say this. All sale barns are going to make mistakes. Someone hit the wrong key on their computer, someone misunderstood a price or a buyer account, or misread a tag number. Or maybe somebody confused two sellers or...

6'8" = 6.67', so a 20'x6'8" would be 133.4 square feet, vs a 24'x6' which would be 144 square feet... Basically one big cow or a couple of calves difference. We have one of each right now - I'd much rather pull the 20, but it's a full top aluminum and the 24 is a steel bar top (w/ tarp), so I'm...

I agree that right now older bred cows looks like the way to go. Least risk, highest profit potential in this market for sure. There are many reasons besides her own issues that a cow goes through a sale barn. As others have said, some people sell everything when it hits a certain age, no...

HD, not sure where you found those figures, but I do know that $1500 a month is pretty much the starting rate for outfits like Lautner and Trausch that lease out those promotional bulls that they're selling semen on. These would be club calf bulls - some might be registered, but their goal is...

If you have any packer market at all where you are, and the cow is in good flesh (hopefully she is if you're considering eating her), she should sell well at market as a packer. Age doesn't matter as much as condition, and a limp won't affect her value on the rail, as long as she doesn't look...

Again, as far as oil and gas goes at least, whether you own 100%, 51%, 0r 1% of the mineral rights, you'll have exactly the same amount of say about what they do with them - pretty much none. An exploration/production company will lease your mineral rights and pay you a lease bonus plus a...

It's very unusual, in fact almost unheard of, for any mineral rights to sell with land in this part of the country any more. I'm surprised you're getting the opportunity to buy even 50%. We own land and we own mineral rights but no mineral rights under any land we own. My wife and I both...

Packers (your 14 year old cow and here most likely the 10 year old as well) will sell very well the week before and the week after a holiday week with no sales. Those big packing plants will shut down 1 day at most - the week before they're gathering cattle to get them through and the week...

There is a "Show Board" on this site dedicated to showing cattle - there are a lot of discussions there that you might want to read over. That said, the others are absolutely right - you really need to watch and learn. Your best bet is to find clinics or camps to attend - even if you have to...

High tailheads aren't desirable in the show ring either. A level hip is the goal, and a little hair is always left on the tailhead and squared up, but it's been a long time since the old Cadillac style fins have been in vogue.

You'll need health papers (CVI), but any sale you're buying from should either have such papers already prepared on each lot or a vet at the sale to write them. If you're buying breeding stock from a production or consignment type sale, all necessary tests should already be done. Young calves...