Bull sale
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That's only about an additional 1.5 hour drive.Thanks. You can bid online TC - my vet usually buys some for his family outfit down at Medicine Lodge KS. I could swing one or two over your way
My breeder has already picked out 2 new bulls for me: a calving ease yearling (delivering next week) and a 2-year-old for the main herd (selling Woody & Tallywacker, putting the 2-year-old with Shaft). I think he's delivering the 2-year-old in April.
Lot 6 looks really good
Farm Boss 1892
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That is one tank of a bull!
GoWyo
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Thank you. He should be a petty good bull. His dam was a first calf heifer and I had to give him a tug with chains and T handles, but I don't think his CED will be -2. The Architect calves grow like weeds. Most of them don't PAP test real well at 7200 feet, but this one did.
Texas G@l
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Have you picked out names for new guys yet?That's only about an additional 1.5 hour drive.
My breeder has already picked out 2 new bulls for me: a calving ease yearling (delivering next week) and a 2-year-old for the main herd (selling Woody & Tallywacker, putting the 2-year-old with Shaft). I think he's delivering the 2-year-old in April.
I may be off here, but when I see a bull going for $100,000, I always feel there is what I call a swap out. I send someone to your sale, and you send someone to mine and we will work it out later...........One big breeder comes to the sale or people are placed to make that one really big sale for the people to see the value of their bulls. Keeps the price up, they hope. Then you see the bulls listed as top selling bull at such and such sale for the price in semen catalogs. But you never see that bull pop up again in any breeding pedigrees. I always look at the pedigrees of the bulls or cows that I purchased. When I am at the sale, the high bidders are going fast. Like 20 bid all at once and the flurry is over. I wonder often if those bidders are actually there. Maybe the ring man is pointing to a post behind the crowd to keep it "real." So may "YEP's" and I don't see how they can keep up with it. Often when I would bid on a bull, the ring man does not see my hand and you have to yell.
The bulls that they are bidding on are fat and short legged. They seem to struggle a lot to walk. I want my bull to be able to cover ground. I don't want replacements to have those real short legs either. It is tough on a bull with no legs to cover cows that are in a large acreage. His athletic ability is low. He can barely move around in the pen at the sale. And hope his pecking device is closer up to his front legs so he can reach the cows. :rolleyes:
I do want a thick full bull, but not a fat Weenie dog.
Just my thoughts.
The bulls that they are bidding on are fat and short legged. They seem to struggle a lot to walk. I want my bull to be able to cover ground. I don't want replacements to have those real short legs either. It is tough on a bull with no legs to cover cows that are in a large acreage. His athletic ability is low. He can barely move around in the pen at the sale. And hope his pecking device is closer up to his front legs so he can reach the cows. :rolleyes:
I do want a thick full bull, but not a fat Weenie dog.
Just my thoughts.
I already have Junk in the Trunk and getting Pecker either later this week or next. Gotta roll with it! Junk is the yearling, Pecker is 2. Shaft and Tallywacker dwarf him, bless his little heart.
I agree with you. When I see a sale and one sells for $50,000-$100,000.00 and a few others over $25,000 and averages $15,000.00. Then I look at a sale like our neighbor who averaged almost $14,000.00 on 160 bulls with a top around $23,000.00 and a bottom of ten thousand. I prefer the latter sale to buy bulls. At least I feel there is either more uniformity or more honesty.
