wbvs58
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When I've got to get rid of a few. I sold 22 steers at our annual weaner sale, they did OK but thought I was short changed 20-30 c/kg on my heaviest pen which averaged 343kg and brought $1340/hd, my other pen @289kg $1250 and 3 that would not fit into the other pens brought $1026 for 246kg. These weights were after an overnight curfew. I am not going to sell here again, I am not happy with the conditions, there is no water in the pens, the agents say they take them to water during the night but the sale does not start until 1.00pm the next day and they are hot in the pens. I think it is only a matter of time before they are forced to move the sale location. Our main saleyards about 70km away is owned by the local council and they are spending several million dollars upgrading the facilities so I think I will be taking them there next year even if I take a hit by not selling at the feature sale. Anyhow it is nice to get them off the cow and moved on. I rehomed some of my surplus cows to a family that have taken a few the last couple of years and I have a few more of the older cows going to the sale tomorrow for sale on Tuesday, the processors will be their fate unfortunately. My surplus heifers have been sold locally and will be shipped out as soon as the funds hit my account. This should get me down to 39 cows, 7 heifers and 4 bulls so not too bad, 1 extra cow, 3 fewer heifers and no extras.
Here are some photos of the 2 bull calves I retained and one of a heifer. The bull calves weaned at 413kg and 407kg and the heifer at 364kg, these were born in mid July and were on just grass and mothers milk, no creep feed. I was very happy with all the calves especially the steers. My heavier pen was comparable in weight to neighbours calves who calve in May to get the extra weight, it is either my country has something that they do well on or my theory is they don't get much out of the cow on those extra couple of months.

I've taken some video so I'll post them once I've got them uploaded to youtube.
Ken

Here are some photos of the 2 bull calves I retained and one of a heifer. The bull calves weaned at 413kg and 407kg and the heifer at 364kg, these were born in mid July and were on just grass and mothers milk, no creep feed. I was very happy with all the calves especially the steers. My heavier pen was comparable in weight to neighbours calves who calve in May to get the extra weight, it is either my country has something that they do well on or my theory is they don't get much out of the cow on those extra couple of months.


I've taken some video so I'll post them once I've got them uploaded to youtube.
Ken
