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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 584288" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>Karin, I will admit that I would prefer to see the sire, the dam, the conditions under which the heifer was raised, etc; but if a heifer has good phenotype she has good phenotype. They are not that hard to spot. You might have to sit through 50 that aren't what you want to find one that will work; but when there are five hundred or a thousand calves in the barn it is not that difficult to find a dozen or so decent commercial heifers. If one don't grow out like you expected it to, send her to the barn before breeding; but that happens with ones you keep from your own herd as well. </p><p></p><p>Where people usually screw up in the sale barn is that they look at price instead of at the heifers. The order buyers will be buying them at ~$1.05, $1.05, $1.04, $1.07, $1.03 (just to throw some hypothetical numbers out there), then one goes $.94 and THAT is when some goof in the stands bids. The dude just "saved" $50; but he just bought some narrow made, post legged, wormy, muscle grade 3, heifer with a runny nose whose momma obviously didn't milk worth a diddly. That heifer won't bring much over the kill price when he brings her back bred in a year and she will get docked more than 10 cents if he brings her back as a stocker. Some of those premium $1.05 heifers would bring $900 (or more) as bred heifers and if he calves them out those premium heifers will generally make that $50 premium back on the first calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 584288, member: 7645"] Karin, I will admit that I would prefer to see the sire, the dam, the conditions under which the heifer was raised, etc; but if a heifer has good phenotype she has good phenotype. They are not that hard to spot. You might have to sit through 50 that aren't what you want to find one that will work; but when there are five hundred or a thousand calves in the barn it is not that difficult to find a dozen or so decent commercial heifers. If one don't grow out like you expected it to, send her to the barn before breeding; but that happens with ones you keep from your own herd as well. Where people usually screw up in the sale barn is that they look at price instead of at the heifers. The order buyers will be buying them at ~$1.05, $1.05, $1.04, $1.07, $1.03 (just to throw some hypothetical numbers out there), then one goes $.94 and THAT is when some goof in the stands bids. The dude just "saved" $50; but he just bought some narrow made, post legged, wormy, muscle grade 3, heifer with a runny nose whose momma obviously didn't milk worth a diddly. That heifer won't bring much over the kill price when he brings her back bred in a year and she will get docked more than 10 cents if he brings her back as a stocker. Some of those premium $1.05 heifers would bring $900 (or more) as bred heifers and if he calves them out those premium heifers will generally make that $50 premium back on the first calf. [/QUOTE]
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