MN British White/White Park Sale and Show -- 10/17/15

[Kathie in Thorp]

Supporting Minnesota British White and White Park show and sale! Sale is at 2:00 PM Saturday, Oct. 17; show starts 8:00 AM Sunday. St. Paul, MN, at the State Fairgrounds, AgStar building. There will also be a silent auction Saturday, that includes 10 straws semen each from 3 different breeders. The "wish book" for the cattle sale is at the following link. http://www.mnbritishwhites.org They will be able to take bids by phone. My "wish list" is big for this, but shipping to the Pac NW is, too.

Silent auction includes semen from 3 different breeders/several different bulls each. Someone(s) will also be able to take bids on the silent auction items, which will be done following the cattle sale on Saturday. This is the silent auction list, so far.

2015 Silent Auction Items!!! WE CAN SHIP TO YOU (at your cost)
• RLC Farms/Ryan Hohenwald – Two calf blankets & 2 calf caps
• RLC Farms/Lori Stich – Pure Romance basket of beauty products
• RLC Farms/Jada Stich - Hand painted BW bull, cow & calf
• Circle C Farms/Connie Johnson – Stuffed cow door stop
• Old Stone British Whites/Brian & Jodi Olson – Wine gift basket
• Old Stone British Whites/Brian & Jodi Olson – BW note cards
• Old Stone British Whites/Becca Olson – Lasso wreath
• Thistledown Farms/Michael Todd - Ten straws Nimmer’s Mac semen
• Hilty’s Show Genetics/Dan & Kim Hilty – BW canvas print
• Hilty’s Show Genetics/Dan & Kim Hilty – British White blanket
• Big Rock Ranch/Larry Fedler – Ten straws Rolling Acres Bower Jr semen
• CMT Farms/Carolyn Jones - Two gift baskets of BW milk soap
• Wenger Farms/Glenn Wenger – Ten straws choice semen (all of one bull or mix and match) of Mytown Frank, Mytown Kicker, or Wenger TW92 Trooper (shipping included)
• No Bull Enterprise – Two Ranches of the West books by Jim Reen
• White Gold Cattle Company/Dennis & Suzanne Jones – Basket of Usborne collection of children’s farm & cow story books
Back-Acher Farm/Larry & Kathie Howard...all the way in Washington...donated two VISA gift certificates to help w/ your fuel or meals; one drawn from the list of exhibitors and one from a list of successful bidders.

Message me if you want contact info.

 

[Son of Butch]

You can take Lot 10 Breanna off your wish list.

Friday morning 11:45 am the bred heifer Breanna due May 4th escaped the state fair grounds.
12:30 St Paul Police shot her after they were unable to corral her with police cars.
Twin Cities news report at first said a bull had charged an officer and later changed it to escaped cow shot.
(There goes British White's reputation as gentle cattle.)
It was also reported the meat will be donated to a local food shelf.

 

[Muddy]

Butch, I thought it was two animals that escaped from the fairgrounds. They were too extremely closer to the busiest highways.

 

[Son of Butch]

Multiple major mistakes had to been made to reach the end result.
The consignor was from Wisconsin (aka Flori-duh north) so you know right off the bat can't be the brightest bulb on the tree.
(Says the Minnesotan)
They consigned 2 bred heifers. Would not be surprised that both got away, but the fairgrounds are over 300 acres and maybe only one escaped off the grounds. There are major highways a couple of miles away in 3 of the 4 directions from the
fairgrounds. It's bad publicity when a cattleman can't maintain control of their animals. Anything I add is just speculation.

Does anyone have sale results or prices?

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Wow! I didn't hear about that from anyone that was at the show!

Show results are posted somewhere, but have not seen sale results yet. But I'm asking friends that were at show/sale what the heck the deal is with "shot cow."

 

[Muddy]

That heifer should just stay home. She was being so aggressive. But I'm glad they shot her before she is entering the busiest highway (unfortunately she was in same direction towards to the highways). The police tried to tranquilize her but it didn't work and she continued to attack the police cars.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

I don't know the folks that owned that heifer, but talked to friends that were there (I don't know if you were there, Son of Butch). They said she got loose as she was being off-loaded from the trailer, then groundskeepers got involved in the chase and ran her off the grounds. ALSO she charged one of the youth trying to help catch her and did some damage to another one. So, no, she never should have been there.

 

[redcowsrule33]

Watched the video from the helicopter of the "chase". The part I could watch didn't look too impossible to me. http://www.fox9.com/news/34020358-story

In my experience you get any cow, even a dead tame milk cow, get her scared and disoriented and have her run around by people with zero animal experience and it always ends badly for the cow.

 

[Kathie in Thorp]

Watched the video from the helicopter of the "chase". The part I could watch didn't look too impossible to me. http://www.fox9.com/news/34020358-story

In my experience you get any cow, even a dead tame milk cow, get her scared and disoriented and have her run around by people with zero animal experience and it always ends badly for the cow.

Agreed. Was not a good deal.