cowgirl8":ye77mchj said:These were the low of the heifer's calves, just 5.... Again, it was not that bad of a calf. Someone nitpicked, maybe those calves or that one was put at the end of the sale...Out of thousands of calves sold from our ranch over the years, having 2 isn't that bad of percentages..And both were iffy. I have too many to choose from to eat, not going to eat a small heifer's calf. SO off to the sale he went. 5 dinky calves is just a drop in the bucket and will not break us or put us into debt. Not worthy of the 30 cents he brought, which is the point of the thread. He was a good meaty 400 pound angus calf...Allenw":ye77mchj said:I don't see any thing here that couldn't be solved by more time setting in the sale barn.
That's the risk of selling at the sale barn...they are worth exactly what the buyer is willing to pay at that moment..unless you set a minimum or squash the sale, there is no negotiation. Maybe you could do better selling the smaller ones off the farm to folks looking to feed a couple?