I was at the sale yesterday, looking for some more cows for my young friend. They didn't have much of what we are looking for. Had a nice pen of 10, eighteen month old red Angus x Charolais heifers, short bred to a red Brangus. Not what we were looking for, but I wish I had stayed to see them sell. I saw a trailer in the check -in line, with a white Corriente cow on it, and a black calf. So, I went to talk to the young man in the truck. He was about to leave out of town for a 3 year job. He is a commercial electrician, and was going to build one of those giant battery plants that are springing up all over Ga. Anyhow, this was his only cow that he had been keeping at his daddy's place, and Pops told him to get rid of the horned devil before he left town. The calf was solid black, still a bull, and I guessed to be 400-425 lbs. Boy said the sire was his daddy's SimmAng, and she should be bred back. He said this was her 2nd calf. I asked what he wanted for her, and he said $750. I told him that was about the top dollar I had sold Corrs for this year, and that was for solid blacks Ones like her, white with black specks, would sell for about $650, He said, "Yeah, but ain't that calf worth something?" I had assumed he was going to weigh the calf and sell it separately. I said " So you want $750 for the pair? " He said "Yeah, that calf is just now 5 months old, so you cant wean it yet" So I paid him, and when we unloaded I told them to put the calf in the weigh pen, and put the cow in a pen for me, and I'd go get the trailer and come back.
I called the office today to see what the calf brought. 418 pounds at $1.68. $703 dollars. So,, I now have a $47 Corr cow, bred to a SimmAng bull. I even tried to talk the boy into doing what I did, I told him his calf ought to bring at least $1.50 a pound...$600 or more. and if his cow just brought $300, held make $900 or more, But he wanted to just sell then to me and be on his way. Tomorrow, I iil have another $100 in her, for fuel going to south GA and back, But, that's ok, IF I was getting back into the business, I'd take two hundred more $150 Corr cows like her.
I called the office today to see what the calf brought. 418 pounds at $1.68. $703 dollars. So,, I now have a $47 Corr cow, bred to a SimmAng bull. I even tried to talk the boy into doing what I did, I told him his calf ought to bring at least $1.50 a pound...$600 or more. and if his cow just brought $300, held make $900 or more, But he wanted to just sell then to me and be on his way. Tomorrow, I iil have another $100 in her, for fuel going to south GA and back, But, that's ok, IF I was getting back into the business, I'd take two hundred more $150 Corr cows like her.
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