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<blockquote data-quote="traderaaron" data-source="post: 763668" data-attributes="member: 13840"><p>A cow that is preg checked by the vet at the auction will be aged by mouthing them, here they are marked with a tag positioned either side of the shoulder to indicate the age on an older cow, they also announce it.</p><p></p><p>If they are broken mouthed just figure on them not having any teeth really and if they do then it's a bonus. Also figure a short-solid mouth cow is older than you may think. Some auctions allow for a broken tooth to still be called a short-solid. If they say older they are usually old.</p><p></p><p>The body condition of an older cow in the late Fall will usually tell you as much about how many teeth and how good they are as anything else.</p><p></p><p>I would say most of my cows this year have very little tooth left.</p><p></p><p>I will be selling all my Cows as butcher cows direct to the packer this August or early September and selling the calves off of them. I buy an older cow specifically for just one season and that's all I would assume they'll last, a few don't make it through the winter and calving but most look better when I sell them as butcher cows than when I bought them in the fall/winter as bred cows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="traderaaron, post: 763668, member: 13840"] A cow that is preg checked by the vet at the auction will be aged by mouthing them, here they are marked with a tag positioned either side of the shoulder to indicate the age on an older cow, they also announce it. If they are broken mouthed just figure on them not having any teeth really and if they do then it's a bonus. Also figure a short-solid mouth cow is older than you may think. Some auctions allow for a broken tooth to still be called a short-solid. If they say older they are usually old. The body condition of an older cow in the late Fall will usually tell you as much about how many teeth and how good they are as anything else. I would say most of my cows this year have very little tooth left. I will be selling all my Cows as butcher cows direct to the packer this August or early September and selling the calves off of them. I buy an older cow specifically for just one season and that's all I would assume they'll last, a few don't make it through the winter and calving but most look better when I sell them as butcher cows than when I bought them in the fall/winter as bred cows. [/QUOTE]
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