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<blockquote data-quote="Alan" data-source="post: 961274" data-attributes="member: 378"><p>Welcome to the internet and welcome to CT. For both you need to have a thick skin. As for the sale of your calf, as many have already said, when you sell at a sale barn/stockyard you roll the dice. In my area they dock the price for hide color, like red, they dock for horns, the dock dairy steers, they dock on gender, steers bring more $$, they dock on weight, lighter weights bring higher $$. A couple of weeks ago I took seven weaned Polled Hereford calves to the sale barn, mostly 500 to 600 lbs, they brought equal to high dollar that day, I was dancing in the parking lot. So the very next week I took a cull cow, P Hereford, and a horned Hereford steer 800 lbs. I wasn't so happy, I knew I would take a hit on an old cow, but it was more than expected, the steer did okay but still took a couple of hits. Overall the prices were much, much lower than just a week before. That's just the nature of the game. If you want what you consider the value of your cattle to be you probably should sell them private treaty. </p><p></p><p>Stuff happens at the sale yard, animals get hurt, animals get bred, animals go unsold and your still stuck with the charges. I have to say I have never seen cattle go unsold but I have seen them go off the per pound price and sell for the dollar ...... Ouch!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan, post: 961274, member: 378"] Welcome to the internet and welcome to CT. For both you need to have a thick skin. As for the sale of your calf, as many have already said, when you sell at a sale barn/stockyard you roll the dice. In my area they dock the price for hide color, like red, they dock for horns, the dock dairy steers, they dock on gender, steers bring more $$, they dock on weight, lighter weights bring higher $$. A couple of weeks ago I took seven weaned Polled Hereford calves to the sale barn, mostly 500 to 600 lbs, they brought equal to high dollar that day, I was dancing in the parking lot. So the very next week I took a cull cow, P Hereford, and a horned Hereford steer 800 lbs. I wasn't so happy, I knew I would take a hit on an old cow, but it was more than expected, the steer did okay but still took a couple of hits. Overall the prices were much, much lower than just a week before. That's just the nature of the game. If you want what you consider the value of your cattle to be you probably should sell them private treaty. Stuff happens at the sale yard, animals get hurt, animals get bred, animals go unsold and your still stuck with the charges. I have to say I have never seen cattle go unsold but I have seen them go off the per pound price and sell for the dollar ...... Ouch! [/QUOTE]
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