TCRanch":14pb6l68 said:
Cross, are they vaccinated, weaned, etc? A lot of Sale Barns will market them for you if you provide all the info prior to the sale. And word of mouth always helps, as does actually hanging out at the Sale Barn; if they know you and know you have good, quality calves they'll treat you right.
Honest truth
Vaccinated for clostridial but nothing for respiratory, unweaned, but the big calves were all eating well and not nursing.
A lot of it was my own fault.
Chose a sale barn for convenience instead of a proven barn.
Especially the light heifers I took a beating on.
I should have brought them back home.
Bigger calves were worth more than I got, should have PO'd them.
They were nice calves, not a single dink in the bunch and I'm sure they sold in OKC Monday for .20 a pound more than I sold for.
I take responsibility for it. My screw up.
As of today I'm working on getting a weaning area.
I've decided to carry them through winter on graze out wheat and sell in the spring.
I may have to get my numbers up although I'm comfortable where I'm at, either that or take my lumps or quit all together.
But I'll dang sure not take a another screwing.
I sat right there and watched 3-4 buyers buy cattle in an empty sale barn.
One chastised another for out bidding him on a set of calves.
Next group he bid and said to the other
" you bought the last set and your want these too "
After that they never bid against one another.
Opening bid bought the cattle.
I sat there and never said a word.
I'm a very calm and cool guy, but I should have called BS and didn't.
My fault
I own it
Edit to add
They don't tag cattle there.
I couldn't figure why they would take a chance on a gate coming open and mixing cattle causing a cluster.
Then I remembered the owner of the barn and the OKC sale on monday.