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<blockquote data-quote="elkwc" data-source="post: 1393262" data-attributes="member: 22295"><p><strong>We get told that buyers don't want bulls that are heavily fed and that they can tell a good bull in any condition, well these very same buyers always buy the heaviest bulls in the draft. </strong>There is another larger breeder not too far away that is very well off and only new to the bull business and pays a promotion company to do his advertising and spends a lot of money. His bulls are grossly overweight many 2 yr olds well over 1000kg yet the buyers come from all over the country and a lot from the north where these bulls would just melt and yet his average on 50 bulls was $14,000.</p><p></p><p>It is very hard to work out.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Ken I have attended several sales and also talked to several breeders over the last 3-4 years. I've been told more than once many commercial breeders say they want more moderate framed cattle but when they purchase a bull more times than not they pick the largest framed and heaviest bull. I see it at the sales also. I had a breeder tell me last summer that he went and purchased a moderate bull because some of his clientale kept telling him that is what they wanted. But all he had left last summer were his sons. He hadn't sold a one.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="elkwc, post: 1393262, member: 22295"] [b]We get told that buyers don't want bulls that are heavily fed and that they can tell a good bull in any condition, well these very same buyers always buy the heaviest bulls in the draft. [/b]There is another larger breeder not too far away that is very well off and only new to the bull business and pays a promotion company to do his advertising and spends a lot of money. His bulls are grossly overweight many 2 yr olds well over 1000kg yet the buyers come from all over the country and a lot from the north where these bulls would just melt and yet his average on 50 bulls was $14,000. It is very hard to work out. Ken[/quote] Ken I have attended several sales and also talked to several breeders over the last 3-4 years. I've been told more than once many commercial breeders say they want more moderate framed cattle but when they purchase a bull more times than not they pick the largest framed and heaviest bull. I see it at the sales also. I had a breeder tell me last summer that he went and purchased a moderate bull because some of his clientale kept telling him that is what they wanted. But all he had left last summer were his sons. He hadn't sold a one. [/QUOTE]
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