HOSS
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I weighed my commercial heifer and bull calves today since I had to get them all up to take some of the bull calves to the sale. They are all shy of 6 months old by 3 to 15 days so I am weaning a bit early. Bulls averaged 687 and heifers averaged 630. I did not weigh the biggest heifer since she started showing signs of heat this weekend and I moved her and her momma over to another pasture out of reach of the bull calves. When I get her weighed and throw her weight in the mix the average will tick up a bit. It looks like my heifer weights will be up a bit this year. My bull weights will probably be down 20 lbs off of last years average but than again I don't have an 830 lb behemoth bull calf to throw in the mix this year. The bull calves that I took to the sale really did well for their weight range. I left the sale a bit early since mine sold just over halfway through but it is possible they topped or nearly topped the sale. Prices were up still and I got 149 cwt for the group at 650 average weight. Allot of cows at the sale since they were off last weekend. I think they had better than 1,400 head going through. Bull calves were selling better than steers in some instances and really pushed close to steer prices most of the time that I sat there. Overall it was a good day and I have the rest of my commercial bulls, steers and heifers spoken for so I am out of the selling bizness until next year.