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SBMF 2015
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MurraysMutts
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Quite the spectacle there. Wonder what the story is...
Sound quality was terrible.
Sound quality was terrible.
Aggieteacher
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I live close to Emory and most if not all auction markets in my part of Texas with the exception of special sales , sell one animal at a time, no grouping. Can take awhile to sell 2000 head
This is how it's done up here.
Dave
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That is how it is done here too. And I have seen them run the ring full, run them out, fill it again, and then sell them all. As many as 150 head sold in one lot.
Yep, sounds just like here.
Well Dave and Silver, Y'all are in big ranch country. Down here there are thousands of folks with just a few acres and few head. They have commingle sales where they group these small lots but they require long weaned calves and most here don't want to do that. Since they almost all sell one at a time, you never get paid for your extra work so folks that do take them elsewhere or sell on Superior.
The sale that Dave shows is more like they do in OKC and why I take mine all the way up there. There are no special requirements up there so they will announce what you have done if anything or just run them through grouped the best way they can to make them look good. They do not commingle, so if you have junk mixed with your good stuff. they will separate them likewise.
If someone would build a facility around here close to central Texas like the two big yards in OKC, they would run about half of these sale barns out of business.
The sale that Dave shows is more like they do in OKC and why I take mine all the way up there. There are no special requirements up there so they will announce what you have done if anything or just run them through grouped the best way they can to make them look good. They do not commingle, so if you have junk mixed with your good stuff. they will separate them likewise.
If someone would build a facility around here close to central Texas like the two big yards in OKC, they would run about half of these sale barns out of business.
SBMF 2015
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Nice set of strs!
Our sale rings around here are not that big. They sell load lots from the big backgrounders. Watch them in watch them out, sell them, how many more loaded do you the buyer want? Same size,quality,sex,owner.
BC
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Here is the rest of the story. Young man behind the microphone was auditioning for the job and trying to impress his speed. This market sells pretty fast anyway, but was exceptionally fast that day. As stated earlier, the average herd in this area is about 30 head and most calve year round. The average consignment is probably 7 head or less so unless you co-mingle it is hard to group cattle. MM, I apologize for the sound, that video was taken with my old flip phone. I have since upgraded.
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MurraysMutts
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Lee VanRoss
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If an auction has 4 to 6 or more thousand head of feeders to sell in a day there is not time to jack around with small lots of unvaccinated, uncut
horned and unweaned stock. Green tag auctions are for weaned 40 days, cut and dehorned if necessary and a vet certificate of vaccination.
Larger numbers of even size and weight are run through non stop by pot load. Smaller lots will follow a larger run to fill out an order.
It does pay to have your calves as even as possible and all work done and certified. The 'acreage' stock ,if any, will sell after the main sale
or on another day. Then there is the, "Parting is such sweet sorrow" sellers who name their livestock. Seen it all..........
horned and unweaned stock. Green tag auctions are for weaned 40 days, cut and dehorned if necessary and a vet certificate of vaccination.
Larger numbers of even size and weight are run through non stop by pot load. Smaller lots will follow a larger run to fill out an order.
It does pay to have your calves as even as possible and all work done and certified. The 'acreage' stock ,if any, will sell after the main sale
or on another day. Then there is the, "Parting is such sweet sorrow" sellers who name their livestock. Seen it all..........
SBMF 2015
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One night while working for the vet, a lady brought in a hamp gilt and a limousine cow with a bell and collar. We watched her feed the pig a candy bar and pet it good bye. The cow was bred and needed tested. We figured after what we with the pig that the cow must be a big pet too. Boy, were we wrong! We soon found out that the cow had a bell on so that when she tried sneaking up behind you the bell would give her away before she could blow shot in your back pocket!
That's how our sales are and there are barns on every corner. They have a side gate to bring groups in but when they run singles they come in one side, hit the other, go back, and when they go the other way they are going out the ring. If they know it's bad one they open both gates and it goes straight in one and out the other.
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MurraysMutts
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Hey! I resemble that remark.
I name all mine.
T-bone
Meatloaf
Sir loin
Miss piggy
Pork chop
Bacon...
Never can get the sale barn to pass along the cows names tho....
I have been around sales all my life. Livestock auctions, farm auctions and antique and estate auctions are the main ones I've attended. Was a yard manager years ago and my BIL owned part of a cattle auction for years. Know many of the tricks. The most common one I see is when an auctioneer gets caught with abid when he is running up a buyer. Ma y times they will look at a ring nan and say do you have the bid and then they back up. I've had them ask me if I was still in at a certain price. I say no I'm out and walk away.
kenny thomas
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Happens often at one sale I go to. The buyer usually just takes the calf if its a single. I took one a month ago that I never bid on but it was close to the others I was buying.
SBMF 2015
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The place I worked at would have just knocked those calves off to some random num and never tipped their hand that they had been hung with the calves. Then later in the sale when prices had picked up. We would get a note to go get pen number XX and resell them. They were bought as singles, there would be enough that we could group them the 2nd time through. Pretty fast way for the barn to make a couple bucks.
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MurraysMutts
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Sell em again!
And again!
Seen the same group come thru 3 times once.
The 3rd time they actually sold. Or appeared to have sold. Lol
Some folks dont seem to see such shenanigans
And again!
Seen the same group come thru 3 times once.
The 3rd time they actually sold. Or appeared to have sold. Lol
Some folks dont seem to see such shenanigans
Dave
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One of the best ones I witnessed was at a bucking horse sale. They were selling this horse. The bidding stopped. Jim Shoulders looked at the auctioneer and said I think it is about time you bought one. The auctioneer looked a little flushed but never said a word. They just went on to the next horse. A month or so later I saw that horse at the auctioneers brother's place. I know if I feel I am being run by the auctioneer I just quit bidding.
