Cattle For Sale

[baleflipper]

Fun aint it

 

[Angus Cowman]

what is really going to hurt you guys is
all of this dry weather has hit Arknsas and Missouri now and what hay we had for sale is gone and we are having to hold on to ours hoping it does rain this fall so we can cut some more if not we will be hunting hay ourselves
Looks like most of the hay will be coming out of Illinois and Iowa from now on if we don't get anymore rain and that really jumps the cost up because of the freight

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Lots of people around here already feeding hay.We been out a scraping hay out of places we would not normally even think about cutting. Baled a 165 bale to day,if you could call it hay.

 

[Caustic Burno]

what is really going to hurt you guys is
all of this dry weather has hit Arknsas and Missouri now and what hay we had for sale is gone and we are having to hold on to ours hoping it does rain this fall so we can cut some more if not we will be hunting hay ourselves
Looks like most of the hay will be coming out of Illinois and Iowa from now on if we don't get anymore rain and that really jumps the cost up because of the freight

I hope for y'all that the drought doesn't hang on as long there as it has here. Just got off the phone with my cousin a couple of counties north said he had 35 rolls. He said what am I going to do? I told him sell all but eight cows that's what.
He was talking about trucking in alflafa, told him he would be money ahead to sell the cows and after the drought breaks go to Ms or Al. and buy cows.
Seen today on the news some African country was in a bad drought and we were sending them foriegn aide.
What a joke Americans are losing everything they own and we are sending money to Africa. If the government is that determined to waste money they should be trucking hay down south for American ranchers.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I was over at the neighbors this evening after haying the cows and he was glueing a beer bottle cap on top of a fence post. I was dumb enough to ask what's that? He replied the new Texas rain gauge. :shock:

 

[Kingfisher]

Caustic did you stick around long enough to see what those good cattle were bringing. I sent a high headed girl to the barn on Saturday and I am looking forward to seeing what she brought. She was the right kind but had some bad habits. I have two more open cows and some calves to ship here in the next week or two and I kinda used this girl to test the market, she was a real nice 1100lb brangus cow.

How did she end up doing for ya? Thanks in advance.

 

[Brute 23]

I had a guy telling me about feeding alfalfa. Says he gets the big square bales trucked in then breaks them up into flakes and feeds like that. Claims he has good luck taking cattle thru droughts like that.

 

[1982vett]

I had a guy telling me about feeding alfalfa. Says he gets the big square bales trucked in then breaks them up into flakes and feeds like that. Claims he has good luck taking cattle thru droughts like that.

Bet he hasn't done it 3 out of 4 years.....

Sale in Caldwell had over 1100 head....normal run for this time of year would be 5-600

 

[Flying G]

Caustic did you stick around long enough to see what those good cattle were bringing. I sent a high headed girl to the barn on Saturday and I am looking forward to seeing what she brought. She was the right kind but had some bad habits. I have two more open cows and some calves to ship here in the next week or two and I kinda used this girl to test the market, she was a real nice 1100lb brangus cow.

How did she end up doing for ya? Thanks in advance.

She weighed 1145 and brought .64 a pound ended up with a check for $702. I paid $1050 for her last October, kinda depressing.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Caustic did you stick around long enough to see what those good cattle were bringing. I sent a high headed girl to the barn on Saturday and I am looking forward to seeing what she brought. She was the right kind but had some bad habits. I have two more open cows and some calves to ship here in the next week or two and I kinda used this girl to test the market, she was a real nice 1100lb brangus cow.

How did she end up doing for ya? Thanks in advance.

She weighed 1145 and brought .64 a pound ended up with a check for $702. I paid $1050 for her last October, kinda depressing.

Make you want to throw up. I unloaded some really fine commercial girls that brought .60 .
Crockett had 800 head over normal and it is starting to go down now, very few cows left to sale.
County agent sent out an email about seminar for drought management statagies they are having Aug. 15 th.
I replied you about 6 months to late.

 

[novatech]

Make you want to throw up. I unloaded some really fine commercial girls that brought .60 .
Crockett had 800 head over normal and it is starting to go down now, very few cows left to sale.
County agent sent out an email about seminar for drought management statagies they are having Aug. 15 th.
I replied you about 6 months to late.

The man that leases my pasture only has 12 cows on 85 acres. A year ago there was gras up to their bellies. The native and planted bluestems held out for a pretty good while but it has even died or gone dormant now.
There are no more drought stratagies left. If there are any cows left on a pasture it is to many, no matter what size the pasture is. When grass don't grow the cows will eventually eat all the dead grass that is left with nothing to replace it.
It is now a question of haveing enough money to hold on to the best of the best cattle saved for genetic reasons to breed up a new herd in the future. The odds on that crap shoot don't look good.

 

[cross_7]

i talked with an older gentlemen in king co texas today and he said he sold his calves couple months ago with hopes of hanging on to the cows, but it still hasn't rained and he's selling out.
he's selling a 168 cows and quitting the cattle business after 40 + years.

 

[Flying G]

That is a sad sad deal. Am I the only person that feels a moral obligation to keep their cattle? This may be better discussed on a different topic but I just thought I would bring it up. I am not talking about throwing your money away and I completely understand the dollar and cents of things. A person cant spend money he doesnt have or at least doesnt ever see coming. In the big scheme of things I am a small, small fry operation but I would like to continue to grow and be able to one day say I have been in the cattle business for 40 years. What is it about owning cattle that pulls on you and make you want to stay in when just about everything and everyone is saying to get out? Say what you will but I think you have to be a hopeless romantic to own cattle.

 

[Caustic Burno]

That is a sad sad deal. Am I the only person that feels a moral obligation to keep their cattle? This may be better discussed on a different topic but I just thought I would bring it up. I am not talking about throwing your money away and I completely understand the dollar and cents of things. A person cant spend money he doesnt have or at least doesnt ever see coming. In the big scheme of things I am a small, small fry operation but I would like to continue to grow and be able to one day say I have been in the cattle business for 40 years. What is it about owning cattle that pulls on you and make you want to stay in when just about everything and everyone is saying to get out? Say what you will but I think you have to be a hopeless romantic to own cattle.

I have owned cattle for over 40+ years, I have got out and always back in.
Sometimes you just have to know when to fold your hand and walk away.
This is the worst drought Texas has faced in over a hundred years and a lot of people got caught with their britches down. I think I will survive lot has to due with luck, in selling down due to health reasons and my operating philsophy there is no such thing as too much hay. I had a years worth give or take a few rolls left over from last year. Secondly I got a hay cutting a lot didn't again to luck that my hayfields are in creek bottoms.
I actually think I need the hateful beast to keep my blood pressure up.

 

[jedstivers]

That is a sad sad deal. Am I the only person that feels a moral obligation to keep their cattle? This may be better discussed on a different topic but I just thought I would bring it up. I am not talking about throwing your money away and I completely understand the dollar and cents of things. A person cant spend money he doesnt have or at least doesnt ever see coming. In the big scheme of things I am a small, small fry operation but I would like to continue to grow and be able to one day say I have been in the cattle business for 40 years. What is it about owning cattle that pulls on you and make you want to stay in when just about everything and everyone is saying to get out? Say what you will but I think you have to be a hopeless romantic to own cattle.

Weather it's cattle, hogs, crops or whatever. We have a God given talent to grow and produce to feed everyone else. The thing that makes us hang on is the same thing that makes us do it in the first place. It's what we do.

 

[1982vett]

To late is my thoughts exactly. That horse is already dead

 

[Isomade]

That is a sad sad deal. Am I the only person that feels a moral obligation to keep their cattle? This may be better discussed on a different topic but I just thought I would bring it up. I am not talking about throwing your money away and I completely understand the dollar and cents of things. A person cant spend money he doesnt have or at least doesnt ever see coming. In the big scheme of things I am a small, small fry operation but I would like to continue to grow and be able to one day say I have been in the cattle business for 40 years. What is it about owning cattle that pulls on you and make you want to stay in when just about everything and everyone is saying to get out? Say what you will but I think you have to be a hopeless romantic to own cattle.

Weather it's cattle, hogs, crops or whatever. We have a God given talent to grow and produce to feed everyone else. The thing that makes us hang on is the same thing that makes us do it in the first place. It's what we do.

Well put Jed