Fire Sweep Ranch
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cowgirl8":u364qmq0 said:Is he saying it to describe it to be a steer, may be his silly use of a word you've misinterpreted? I'll have to pay better attention at the sale. Have to admit most of what i hear is Blibbly blobbly yeggidy yaggidy...lol...When we cut calves way back in the day, i was always told to cut off the bottom of the scrotum so that if anything were to ooze it would ooze out. As it healed and the calf grew, that remaining scrotum would be pulled up and gone. I have not been able to tell the difference between the two months later. But, i will be paying more attention any time i go to the sale barn. And if you are making a vertical slit in the scrotum to get out the nut, you're risking infection. This is what i was taught. Our steers at the time of sale will have a fat bubble around where they use to jewels, just the same as a cut calf.
Also might add that at the sale barn our calves always are on the high end of the numbers paid..guarantee if we were being docked, husband would see it and we'd be cutting instead.
There is a huge difference in how they look banded versus knife cut! The sac is still there in a knife cut calf. Case in point, our kids participate in the carcass contest, where they take a home raised steer and raise it to slaughter and they are judged as calves, at butcher weight, then on the rail. At EVERY point, the instructor has the kids look at the cod, or where the testies used to be, and notice the difference in the cut calves (ours) and banded calves. At every stage (feeder, fair, and pre-slaughter), there is a big difference and everyone, even the novice kids, can pick out the calves that were knife cut. They teach the kids to look at the cod, like Dunn said to look at degree of finish.
Now whether a calf is docked or not at the sale barn I do not know, but a person can tell by visual appraisal if a calf is banded or knife cut. Maybe each sale location is different depending on the buyers who are there and their desire???