I know full well what cattle will shrink from here. We have started sending sale yearlings and cull cows 3 days previous to sale time. The gain back in shrink from the truck ride is recovered by roughly 75% and more than pays the feed bill. Calves from here are best weighed off truck asap and forward contracted. I've had 700 lb yearlings shrink 100 lbs on the haul and overnight before the sale.
Big difference in weaned cattle also. Your correct in sending weaned calves a couple days before. The first day is the loss time. Then they get hungry and thirsty and go back to eating.
Its that way in the east. Many calves are never touched until sale day.
She birthed a calf the year after, so no. The guy said she disappeared the next year. He has no idea what happened to her. I think she saw a traveling sheep camp and followed so she could lay in wait and ambush them. Somewhere out there sheep men are wondering...
You mean high percentage in steer to bull calves, or in male to heifer calves? Lots of people don't steer their calves own here, and it doesn't affect the price much of at all., if any. A lot of the barns' market reports have 2 categories for calves: Heifer weight and prices and bull/steer weight and prices.
She was aggressively friendly if anything. Too friendly compared the beef cows I've been around.
What is an "organic cow?"
Ohhhh, so my Corriente herd is organic! You'd think "organic cows" be the highest, but they are the cheapest per pound on the report! That organic beef sure isn't the cheapest at the grocery store, though.
I know a guy with a slaughterhouse. He sells to health food stores. He buys animals from people that don't vaccinate or finish their animals with supplements. The animals have very little fat cover... and he hangs them for 21 days before cutting them. To me that means, because of the lack of fat cover, that the mold formed over 21 days gets into the meat. That means he either trims the rind to the point he's trimming meat... or he's sending tainted meat to his customers. I've never been in the room when they are cutting meat for the stores he supplies.
Yes you are right., But they are the 2nd cheapest on that report. You'd think they'd bring more than even a CAB premium, or Waygu.
They were cull cows, they are not going to bring that much of a premium... you are talking cull cows, not feeder quality or "kill size" of CAB premium cattle.
Oh, ok. The ones on the Organic line are culls, too? That explains why they were so cheap, then. Thanks, Jan.
