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We have a pneu dart. It works good, but darts are expensive and take too long to fall out. I would be interested in a cap-chur. I believe they have reusable darts that are supposed to fall out quickly.

It can be hard to tell from a picture. It took me a few pics. Some nice calves look plain with the wrong stance.

Here is a plain calf in poor condition to compound his plainness. Here are a couple nicer ones.

The calves look okay but I would call them plain. Plain calves sell hit and miss. Some sales are 10-20 behind good calves. Others can be much more. There just aren't always many buyers at that sale for them. Also stuff like weaned and shots can sometimes not matter if there aren't many buyers to...

One thing about calves is that it can sometimes pay to feed them through a drought. As long they gain weight, they are appreciating.

Thanks, that's the plan. I just try to make sure price I pay matches value and those 1 1/2s often seem below their value. There are certainly some plainer ones that I hope can upgrade with some feed. Might be a dairy cross here, oops!

Here is some of my calves I bought for this season. They were purchased over the last month. Ended up averaging around 507 lbs, $2.40. Probably half were bulls. All are steers now. I'm always excited to see how a group turns out!