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Katie: Only the second set of cows was infected when I bought them. Those cattle were sent through the ring as a group (because they were a matched set of cows). Once I took them home, I ran them with my other cattle which were then exposed. I know who the original seller was because I...

rockridgecattle: I don't think I misunderstood you. I do think you misunderstand me. I did not sell them to the original buyer through the sale barn. I called the original buyer, told him my problem, he came to my farm and bought the cattle, loaded them up and left with them. It is my...

rockridgecattle: Thank you for your condolences. I did not post my story to the board to garner sympathy, however. I did not mean to come across as whining about the outcome, just merely wanted to give my story of trying to build a herd through buying at a sale barn as an example of some of...

Herfordshire: I didn't lose any actual dollars, mainly just wasted time and lost profit. The man that bought them from me probably didn't lose any money either but if he did it's because he didn't figure close enough. I know the slaughter market on cows was down but I don't know exactly where...

Thanks for the info. I will move along now.

S&Wsigma: I know I shouldn't bother, but . . . . . What in the world about what I"ve said makes you think I'm a bad sort? Before selling the cows I checked high and low for info. about paratuberculosis and found aboslutely nothing regarding not being able to sell them for slaughter. Wouldn't...

SRbeef: No I didn't cure them. You can't cure them. If they were curable, I would have kept them. I sold them to slaughter through the same barn as they came from. Actually, to be more accurate, I sold them to the man who sold them to me at the barn and who then sold them for slaughter...

I was reading the sale barn thread and thought it might be a good idea to relate my experience so that others might learn something from it. I grew up on a small farm where we raised cattle, hogs and did some row crop farming. However, up until a couple of years ago I had been off the farm...