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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 822757" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>I get to the salebarn early and watch them work and preg check, brand inspect the cows, this tells me a lot about disposition as the cows are being worked by strangers. Ones that look good I write down her number. By the time they come through the ring I have looked at that cow three or four times. I know the sellers as well and I watch the obits as well. Jim might bring a good S/S heavy, I know his stock buy the cow on the cheap, sell the calf, rebred the cow and turn her as a heavy. If she has decent teeth, I might keep her two or three more calfs, watching her teeth before she goes back to the barn. I picked up an S/S four years ago for 360 bucks at the barn she gave me four calves before going back to the barn. I don't buy open cows or heifers both are a crap shoot IMO. I don't buy bulls at the barn as I want to see them in the pasture in their working clothes and their progeny on the ground. Most of all you have to be willing to come home with an empty trailer and go back next week. I have got some fine cows over the year reading Jed died and I know the kids are going to be dumping his stock. You need to know the regular sellers at the barn the reason they cull. It amazes me at people that will cull a perfectly good 10 or 11 year old cow to retain a heifer. Until this spring half the girls that were still producing were old enough to vote.</p><p></p><p>Now here is the best advice I can give you <strong>You are a grass farmer first not a cowboy </strong> Good grass equals good teeth good BCS and longevity. On good grass a S/S can give you years more of production.</p><p></p><p>Son it's all about the grass</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 822757, member: 694"] I get to the salebarn early and watch them work and preg check, brand inspect the cows, this tells me a lot about disposition as the cows are being worked by strangers. Ones that look good I write down her number. By the time they come through the ring I have looked at that cow three or four times. I know the sellers as well and I watch the obits as well. Jim might bring a good S/S heavy, I know his stock buy the cow on the cheap, sell the calf, rebred the cow and turn her as a heavy. If she has decent teeth, I might keep her two or three more calfs, watching her teeth before she goes back to the barn. I picked up an S/S four years ago for 360 bucks at the barn she gave me four calves before going back to the barn. I don't buy open cows or heifers both are a crap shoot IMO. I don't buy bulls at the barn as I want to see them in the pasture in their working clothes and their progeny on the ground. Most of all you have to be willing to come home with an empty trailer and go back next week. I have got some fine cows over the year reading Jed died and I know the kids are going to be dumping his stock. You need to know the regular sellers at the barn the reason they cull. It amazes me at people that will cull a perfectly good 10 or 11 year old cow to retain a heifer. Until this spring half the girls that were still producing were old enough to vote. Now here is the best advice I can give you [b]You are a grass farmer first not a cowboy [/b] Good grass equals good teeth good BCS and longevity. On good grass a S/S can give you years more of production. Son it's all about the grass [/QUOTE]
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