Did you stop to think that if the next guy can make a profit on your calves that they are worth more when you sell them also? Dockage in prices are usually for a reason..... poor type animals, no vaccination program, poor condition, wormy, not castrated or dehorned........ Then someone comes along and tries to justify they don't care what the buyers think..... and next they are complaining about the low price they received.
There might be a reason for that........
Same here, but around us people assume they are Lineback dairy cross and they take a beating at the auctions.
Can't stand the dock is why you don't see them.
That's why I don't run a shorthorn bull with some of my brangus girls.... I love the blue roans but the buyers don't.
Large registered herd 15 miles north of me. Beautiful cattle in their pasture, they are definitely write off cattle.
It still matters to some extent, Americans have been sold a bull of goods. The greatest marketing scheme of all times if it isn't Angus it's not quality.
he's only here for a short time to produce a few heifers. and by the time i get where i'm trying to go he will make up less than 1/4 of the genetics. i've got a son of this bull on the ground now that i hope to use for my terminal cross bull in a couple of years if he fills out like his sire.
it definitely matters at the sale barn but this is just my retirement plan. i'll never run more than 40 to 50 cows and i think i can make a living off of that once i'm near debt free in a couple of years. i'm seeing more and more herds with color in them around me the last couple of years. angus suffer in the heat down here. half my cows are black or black with white faces my charolais crosses are up grazing when those cows are laying under trees and they generally have way less flies on them.
as in tax write off? around here registered british white sell for about 1500 a head and the people that want them don't seem to mind paying. i've considered buying a few more and starting a small herd just to sell to those people.
did you miss my first sentence? my goal is not to run everything through a sale barn. why should i give the majority of the profits away? on a good day you might get 1.30/100 for a 4-500 pound calf at a barn around here on a bad day you might get .80/100 the bigger the calf the lower the price per hundred. by the time that calf hits the end consumer the average price per pound is several times that. a calf that size has to be fed another 8-9 months maybe. that adds maybe another 250 dollars in feed. then there is the transportation and over head but i'm betting the feedlot makes a better profit off of that animal than the farmer did. then the packer gets the bulk of the profits. in the south east we don't have a lot of federal land we can run large herds on for basically free so the costs are higher and looking at market reports we seem to get lower prices at the sale barns. i'm headed into my retirement years and this is what i plan to do until i can't do it anymore. i want to pocket every penny i can off of every cow.
yeah, i'd definitely ai if i decide to do that.
yeah, a lot of the markings i've seen on crosses would make me think they were shorthorn crosses.
if they were cheap i might have bought them but i prefer to buy off of the farm. i've only ever bought a couple from a barn and i bought them skinny to fatten up and flip. i do still own one and she made a really nice calf but didn't clean up for a few days. she's bred back but she's on the bubble. if she doesn't clean up this time she's headed back to the sale barn. i almost tripled my money on the other because it turned out she was bred too.
