Logan52
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This sale is coming up early next month. It is the largest sale of registered Angus cattle in Kentucky and is only a few miles from my home.
I am retired and 70 years old, basically just doing what I have always done, running cows and a few sheep on 86 acres.
I do take pride in the calves I raise. Over the years most bulls have come from the stockyards or people in the area that raise a few grade bulls to sell.
My cows are nice home raised Red Poll X Charolais crosses, together with some black heifers I have kept back after breeding them to an Angus bull.
Does someone like me have any business attending this sale to look for a low end yearling bull, safe to breed to heifers? My last bull I bought at the stockyards and he looked fine but about 25% of his calves graded "short" out of my cows, cows that always before produced calves that about topped the market.
I am retired and 70 years old, basically just doing what I have always done, running cows and a few sheep on 86 acres.
I do take pride in the calves I raise. Over the years most bulls have come from the stockyards or people in the area that raise a few grade bulls to sell.
My cows are nice home raised Red Poll X Charolais crosses, together with some black heifers I have kept back after breeding them to an Angus bull.
Does someone like me have any business attending this sale to look for a low end yearling bull, safe to breed to heifers? My last bull I bought at the stockyards and he looked fine but about 25% of his calves graded "short" out of my cows, cows that always before produced calves that about topped the market.