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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 666084" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>While SOME folks DO buy all their replacements at the weekly sale, I think the VAST majority of feeder calves wind up in the freezers and feedlots. At our weekly sale, while it might be packed at the beginning for the goats, baby calves, pairs, mature bulls, preg checked cows (usually in that order) two hours later it is usually down to the same six order buyers who come every week and a handful of sellers waiting for their check while we go through all the by the pound kill cows. Yearling heifers, yearling steers, 2 to 4 weight feeders, 4 to 5 weight feeders, and 5 to 7 weight feeders, and anything else that showed up late will go back and forth until the pens are empty. Farmer Bubba could show up at six pm and buy 20 feeder calves to grow out as replacements (or whatever he is going to do with them) but that is relatively rare. As Caustic would likely say, you make more money buying a pair and hoping she is short bred than you can growing out feeder heifers. At this point the informed cattleman is probably just assuming that a bunch of "black" heifers included AMCarriers and NHCarriers and is careful to buy a tested free bull from a known source to breed them too.......or at least one that is not black. And even if some dummy buys a 6 year old AMCarrier bull at 56 cents a pound and a load of black heifers that are AMCarriers, you still have it more or less contained because MOST of us don't buy our breeding bulls from guys who buy their seedstock at the weekly sale. Right now I think the AAA is more worried about people getting screwed by people with painted signs in front of their farm that say "Registered Angus Bulls and females for sale". THAT just can not happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 666084, member: 7645"] While SOME folks DO buy all their replacements at the weekly sale, I think the VAST majority of feeder calves wind up in the freezers and feedlots. At our weekly sale, while it might be packed at the beginning for the goats, baby calves, pairs, mature bulls, preg checked cows (usually in that order) two hours later it is usually down to the same six order buyers who come every week and a handful of sellers waiting for their check while we go through all the by the pound kill cows. Yearling heifers, yearling steers, 2 to 4 weight feeders, 4 to 5 weight feeders, and 5 to 7 weight feeders, and anything else that showed up late will go back and forth until the pens are empty. Farmer Bubba could show up at six pm and buy 20 feeder calves to grow out as replacements (or whatever he is going to do with them) but that is relatively rare. As Caustic would likely say, you make more money buying a pair and hoping she is short bred than you can growing out feeder heifers. At this point the informed cattleman is probably just assuming that a bunch of "black" heifers included AMCarriers and NHCarriers and is careful to buy a tested free bull from a known source to breed them too.......or at least one that is not black. And even if some dummy buys a 6 year old AMCarrier bull at 56 cents a pound and a load of black heifers that are AMCarriers, you still have it more or less contained because MOST of us don't buy our breeding bulls from guys who buy their seedstock at the weekly sale. Right now I think the AAA is more worried about people getting screwed by people with painted signs in front of their farm that say "Registered Angus Bulls and females for sale". THAT just can not happen. [/QUOTE]
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