skyhightree1
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Was 2 bred heifers one was 4 mos one was 6 mos
branguscowgirl":3mjkymvs said:Dave is that the avg wt. for each of them? Because the heifer pictured looks heavier than 622. But I don't know how the sale barn works enough to say.
Dave":1o8dwwa4 said:Sky those teen pregnancy heifers sell for that or less here all the time. I end up with some every year in my heifer deal. They are a real joy to calf out. You lose a lot of the calves, sometimes a heifer, some of them just don't recover from losing the calf, and of course she will decide to have the calf on the middle of worse night of the year. My experience is there isn't much money in them.
You must have a lot more money to risk than I do sky.........skyhightree1":sgi1bcqu said:Dave":sgi1bcqu said:Sky those teen pregnancy heifers sell for that or less here all the time. I end up with some every year in my heifer deal. They are a real joy to calf out. You lose a lot of the calves, sometimes a heifer, some of them just don't recover from losing the calf, and of course she will decide to have the calf on the middle of worse night of the year. My experience is there isn't much money in them.
no risk no reward... I take chances .. I have bought worse and made a few pennies. I try to buy the worst looking cows at the barn calves too. Its like hunting you don't know what you will get if you don't go. If you don't buy you don't know.
branguscowgirl":13j0ykh8 said:You must have a lot more money to risk than I do sky.........skyhightree1":13j0ykh8 said:Dave":13j0ykh8 said:Sky those teen pregnancy heifers sell for that or less here all the time. I end up with some every year in my heifer deal. They are a real joy to calf out. You lose a lot of the calves, sometimes a heifer, some of them just don't recover from losing the calf, and of course she will decide to have the calf on the middle of worse night of the year. My experience is there isn't much money in them.
no risk no reward... I take chances .. I have bought worse and made a few pennies. I try to buy the worst looking cows at the barn calves too. Its like hunting you don't know what you will get if you don't go. If you don't buy you don't know.
I had one bad experience, and will never do it again.
My ex bought a poor little heifer like that at the sale barn once. The renters dog ate the face off the calf (While she was down trying to have it) before he got to her. Damaged the heifer also. He put her down right away, there was no way that calf was coming out. Made me sick that he was stupid enough to even buy her. And sick that the A-hole put her through the sale like that.
jasonleonard":13j0ykh8 said:I watched that set go through Sky. They sold for $760 per head. They looked big to me for 662 lb cattle.
That buyer is not a dummy. I have set there and watched him buy cattle all afternoon.
If they get up to 9 wts until they calve, and he dumps them in a special sale instead of just a weekly sale, he will probably make a little money. They wouldn't look that awful if they had a calf standing beside 'em, and the grass was green!
How many months bred were they.... Sky?
Bingo.kenny thomas":20ik0o0v said:Well I am going to make a prediction and probably nobody can prove me wrong because none of us will know where they went. I will predict that by April 15, on a special cow sale at a local stockyard that they will bring over 1,000 each. Thats just 2 months away and they will make him at least 250 each. Taking a chance sometimes has big rewards. Now the next person that will actually calve them out might have troubles.
Good chance of that happening if they had sold around here.kenny thomas":mlhyz1y2 said:Well I am going to make a prediction and probably nobody can prove me wrong because none of us will know where they went. I will predict that by April 15, on a special cow sale at a local stockyard that they will bring over 1,000 each. Thats just 2 months away and they will make him at least 250 each. Taking a chance sometimes has big rewards. Now the next person that will actually calve them out might have troubles.