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<blockquote data-quote="Ojp6" data-source="post: 1254554" data-attributes="member: 23608"><p>I will use an example. Let's say you bring in a load of top end black and baldy heifers. Let's say they weigh 560. If you bring them the day of the sale they will be run to the scale immediately after unloading and weighed. If they weigh between 525 and 575 they will go in a pen with the other #1 black heifers from that weight range. If you had colored heifers that weighed the same they will go in the colored #1 heifer pen as long as they don't have too much chrome. At most of the graded sales I've been going to lately the #1 colored heifers have been from .01 to .08 cents back of the #1 blacks with rare occasions in which they were higher than the blacks. You are payed for the weight of your heifers, not the weight of the group. If the group weighs 550 and brings 2.30 and your heifers weighed 560 you get paid 2.30 at 560. If you have thinner heifers they may go in the number two pen with all the other thinner heifer from that day. A lot of times with the thinner ones they will put the blacks and colored calves together with very little effect on price and it helps to keep the pens bigger. Generally the graded pens all sell very near market value because of the numbers in the pens so once you get your cattle graded into one of the #1 pens you can assume that you will probably not get screwed. Oddball cattle with minor to major problems or off colored cattle get a back tag and go to the singles pen. The singles pen usually means your calf is going to be at least a little ways down in the money. Some sales run all the cattle through while some do not. The ones that run them all through if they have more than they can fit in the ring they just let some out and catch 20 or so to look at. Most bigger buyers don't care to much if they run them through or not on the really good #1 calves because they know that they were graded on quality so they will be good ones. Generally all the thinner pens and most of the colored pens come through so the buyers can see since they can vary more than top enders do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ojp6, post: 1254554, member: 23608"] I will use an example. Let's say you bring in a load of top end black and baldy heifers. Let's say they weigh 560. If you bring them the day of the sale they will be run to the scale immediately after unloading and weighed. If they weigh between 525 and 575 they will go in a pen with the other #1 black heifers from that weight range. If you had colored heifers that weighed the same they will go in the colored #1 heifer pen as long as they don't have too much chrome. At most of the graded sales I've been going to lately the #1 colored heifers have been from .01 to .08 cents back of the #1 blacks with rare occasions in which they were higher than the blacks. You are payed for the weight of your heifers, not the weight of the group. If the group weighs 550 and brings 2.30 and your heifers weighed 560 you get paid 2.30 at 560. If you have thinner heifers they may go in the number two pen with all the other thinner heifer from that day. A lot of times with the thinner ones they will put the blacks and colored calves together with very little effect on price and it helps to keep the pens bigger. Generally the graded pens all sell very near market value because of the numbers in the pens so once you get your cattle graded into one of the #1 pens you can assume that you will probably not get screwed. Oddball cattle with minor to major problems or off colored cattle get a back tag and go to the singles pen. The singles pen usually means your calf is going to be at least a little ways down in the money. Some sales run all the cattle through while some do not. The ones that run them all through if they have more than they can fit in the ring they just let some out and catch 20 or so to look at. Most bigger buyers don't care to much if they run them through or not on the really good #1 calves because they know that they were graded on quality so they will be good ones. Generally all the thinner pens and most of the colored pens come through so the buyers can see since they can vary more than top enders do. [/QUOTE]
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