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Rat tail or not??
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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1806857" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>In my experience. rat tails have different degrees of rat tailiness that buyers don't like. Some are very obvious, some are just sutble. The obvious ones with a bull whip tail, and no switch, will have no respectable calf buyers making a bid. Smaller calves seem to be discounted the most. A 800 lb rat tail steer in the right market will not see much of anything of a discount. Group one together with a bunch of other big calves that sell in a lot and it may not be even noticed. The animal pictured sold alone would probably be discounted considerably.</p><p></p><p>I have bought a few over the years when no one else will bid. They are good cheap animals that will gain similar to others. You buy them cheap, you sell them cheap at a heavier weight. Your cost of gain is similar to #1 calves but you are in at a lower cost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1806857, member: 5381"] In my experience. rat tails have different degrees of rat tailiness that buyers don't like. Some are very obvious, some are just sutble. The obvious ones with a bull whip tail, and no switch, will have no respectable calf buyers making a bid. Smaller calves seem to be discounted the most. A 800 lb rat tail steer in the right market will not see much of anything of a discount. Group one together with a bunch of other big calves that sell in a lot and it may not be even noticed. The animal pictured sold alone would probably be discounted considerably. I have bought a few over the years when no one else will bid. They are good cheap animals that will gain similar to others. You buy them cheap, you sell them cheap at a heavier weight. Your cost of gain is similar to #1 calves but you are in at a lower cost. [/QUOTE]
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