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<blockquote data-quote="Tracy740" data-source="post: 259868" data-attributes="member: 4304"><p>Ok, as far as what judges are looking for......</p><p></p><p></p><p>This year the judges we showed to, wanted a good honest calf, one that was structurally correct, had natural thickness and moved freely. At the county show the judge also added amount of finish.</p><p></p><p>We always buy off the farm, calves still on the cow, wean in the trailer on the way home, they are already steers at this point. However the sales we go to are a bid process, so you show interest in a calf, put a bid on the calf and then if someone else has put a bid on the calf they get you both on a phone and have a bid off, if there is more then 2 people then the phone bids go on until all but one person has dropped out.</p><p>The problem with the phone sales is you have to have some trust in people, and hope they are not just bidding their own calf up. We have mostly had good experiences with this type of sale, and then we had a couple not so good experiences. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tracy740, post: 259868, member: 4304"] Ok, as far as what judges are looking for...... This year the judges we showed to, wanted a good honest calf, one that was structurally correct, had natural thickness and moved freely. At the county show the judge also added amount of finish. We always buy off the farm, calves still on the cow, wean in the trailer on the way home, they are already steers at this point. However the sales we go to are a bid process, so you show interest in a calf, put a bid on the calf and then if someone else has put a bid on the calf they get you both on a phone and have a bid off, if there is more then 2 people then the phone bids go on until all but one person has dropped out. The problem with the phone sales is you have to have some trust in people, and hope they are not just bidding their own calf up. We have mostly had good experiences with this type of sale, and then we had a couple not so good experiences. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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