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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1807757" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>You need to realize that singles and pairs will bring 10 to 40 cents LESS than most that are sold in bigger groups... that is just a fact of life... Sure, some will bring right up there and they will most often bring that if the person is trying to integrate them into a bigger group they just bought..... but singles and pairs just bring less. That is why we buy alot of these singles and pairs or small groups of 3-4 ... BECAUSE they bring less... and because they might have rough hair coats, might be wormy... are thinner and need some feed... and we will background them and make up groups of 5-25 or more to resell after having been backgrounded for 30-90 days... and we are in there bidding until we feel it is enough and we can't make any money on them...and let someone else have them.... or we buy them. We don't try to steal them and we bid against any and all that are also trying to buy them.... but sometimes we do "steal them" because no one else is wanting to bid more.... </p><p></p><p>All that said... we also do not worm our animals often... because we try to keep animals that have a higher tolerance and that wind up having very low fecal egg counts and "stay fat on thin air"... We have been weeding out the "hard keepers" and the ones that get real thin and do not hold their weight and ones that need worming more often... We do however, worm most everything that is bought because we do not know what they have been exposed to and want them to get a good start with a clean gut tract.... and if they have a rough hair coat indicating possible worms... just to get them off to a better start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1807757, member: 25884"] You need to realize that singles and pairs will bring 10 to 40 cents LESS than most that are sold in bigger groups... that is just a fact of life... Sure, some will bring right up there and they will most often bring that if the person is trying to integrate them into a bigger group they just bought..... but singles and pairs just bring less. That is why we buy alot of these singles and pairs or small groups of 3-4 ... BECAUSE they bring less... and because they might have rough hair coats, might be wormy... are thinner and need some feed... and we will background them and make up groups of 5-25 or more to resell after having been backgrounded for 30-90 days... and we are in there bidding until we feel it is enough and we can't make any money on them...and let someone else have them.... or we buy them. We don't try to steal them and we bid against any and all that are also trying to buy them.... but sometimes we do "steal them" because no one else is wanting to bid more.... All that said... we also do not worm our animals often... because we try to keep animals that have a higher tolerance and that wind up having very low fecal egg counts and "stay fat on thin air"... We have been weeding out the "hard keepers" and the ones that get real thin and do not hold their weight and ones that need worming more often... We do however, worm most everything that is bought because we do not know what they have been exposed to and want them to get a good start with a clean gut tract.... and if they have a rough hair coat indicating possible worms... just to get them off to a better start. [/QUOTE]
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