Looks like a good price to me but I don't know anything about Jerseys ??
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Travlr
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Looks healthy, but I bought one that looked about that size for freezer beef for $250 last year. She was a b***h that wanted to kill the sheep/lambs we had so we sold her to the neighbor, quick.
Yes it is Are they in Ga? Did the ad mention age and weight?
MurraysMutts
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Need lots more info.
First thought is, too high for baby heifers
First thought is, too high for baby heifers
farmerjan
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Those aren't "baby heifers" and right now here replacement dairy cattle are going for 1500 to 2500 if bred and closeup... Opens are worth $1.00-1.50 lb... so if they are weaned as they look like they might be and weigh in the 4-600 lb range that is a good and decent price.... You still have another year or more until they are bred and ready to freshen... and I am thinking that someone does not see a profit down the road with the cost of feed and hay...
Would like to know the age and size of them....
Would like to know the age and size of them....
kenny thomas
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I could sell them all for a profit if they have been checked to be breeders.
MurraysMutts
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Indeed. Freemartins don't make good breeders.
I thought I saw a stock tank in the background. If that's true, they are small small calves.
Definitely need more info!
Double R Ranch
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I would definitely take a peak at them and get more info if I saw that. See if they look like they could actually breed. That price is cheap either way. My spouse might divorce me though if I went to look at them. 
I am exceeding my quota of jerseys already.
I am exceeding my quota of jerseys already.
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farmerjan
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@kenny thomas ... Road Trip......
MurraysMutts
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That's that place in Amarillo.
Look at the pics CAREFULLY in the link.
All I can say is buyer beware. I've heard mixed things about that place.
Look at the pics CAREFULLY in the link.
All I can say is buyer beware. I've heard mixed things about that place.
kenny thomas
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Notice there are 15 head but at the end it says take all 12 for $4900.
MurraysMutts
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Yes.
Their ads have some generic "stock" photos sometimes. They've even said as much on some of their ads. Dealer/swapper/trader type animals from what i can tell
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He also has advertisements on there for 12 jerseys and another one for 50 jerseys.
I didn't see the 50, but I saw the 25 two year olds at $900. Better deal than the twelve 6-10 month olds, averaging 400 lbs at $485 3ach. The 2 year olds weiugh 800, and he wants 900....about $1.12 per lb.
Dave
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There was a 700 pound Jersey heifer at the sale yesterday. She sold for $450.
MurraysMutts
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Watched a nice one sell today for less than 600. 900lbs
One of the auctions I watched Tuesday, it was in Minnesota or South Dakota.....forgot which, sold three 1700 lb culled Holstein milk cows at $1.12 a pound, Sold twenty 3 day old Holstein bull calves, 3 so near dead they toted them into the ring and laid them down in the middle, brought $220 each! And they sold three, 800 lb Corriente steers...way to big to rope...for $1.18 a lb! For the life of me, I can't figure out why! AT 800 lbs you MIGHT could have bull dogged them another year, but usually when they get that old,. they have been roped for a couple of years, ( or more) and won't even run from a horse. I will say they were fat and in as good condition as any there that day, but I wouldn't think you could give $950 for a steer like that. Skin and bones, maybe.... there would be the potential for them to gain on a feedlot. These looked like they had been FINISHED on a feed lot. They were all solid black, though.
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