They look like jerseys but seem to be a little meatier. Could have some beef in them but could just be well fed. If you like them, they are about auction price, you probably can't go wrong. I think the second one looks more jersey than the first, more angular. The thing about them and the breeding is if they happened to be twins to a bull, they most likely will not breed. That said, they would make good beef in the freezer so you really wouldn't lose. Realize also that it will be more than a year before they are fresh and have available milk to either put calves on them or to milk. They look to be in the neighborhood of 4-500 lbs? Yearlings? An already milking cow takes the non-breeding out of the equation, but if you don't need the milk now AND won't need it for a year then you are in good shape.
Don't know what you are considering auction price, but if it is 1.00 lb or less then they ought to be a decent buy. Here, a jersey heifer will be worth about twice that on craigslist. Cull cows from a dairy are about .60 lb at the auction, and you don't know what you are getting. A milk cow at auction in the "head cow pen" would bring 4-800 all according who is there to buy. I paid $900 for a bred jersey heifer from a dairy because she had one bad quarter, and the farmer didn't want to freshen her out. She was bred AI, had a heifer calf and I milked her. Yes she is 3 quartered but that's okay. I am happy. She is bred back now for a fall calf and her daughter will be bred at the appropriate time to a jersey. Since I milked her, don't know if she will take other calves but she fed hers plus provided milk for me and another calf that I was bottle feeding.
Jersey beef here is worth about 60-70 cents per pound at the auction. Sold a 875 lb jersey steer for .66 lb. last week that someone backed out on and I didn't want to keep feeding him. Already have another going next week for butcher and don't have enough freezer space for 2.
All according to the price I'd be very interested.... and I have 3 dairy cows due this fall and 2 jerseys to heifers to breed and 3 that are 1/2 dairy that will be bred beef shortly.
