Sale barns are exactly where people take their old cattle. No one would think bad of your cattle in general, for doing what they all do themselves.
Sale barn buyers
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I know some people who breed cattle that don't want people to know because they have to dump culls sone times. They don't want people buying them off the name then being upset or talking bad about them. They prefer to haul straight to a packer or even a butcher and just donate the meat.
Travlr
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They must have a helluva bottom line if they can donate their culls and not sell them.
SBMF 2015
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some how a case of Busch lite gets unloaded with my trailer every once in a while. The barn workers always remember who appreciates them.
SBMF 2015
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A guy I work with raises pb angus bulls. Had one that wouldn't stay in and had a bad attitude about being put back. So he hauled him to a mrkt sale. A couple weeks later some guy called and ripped him a new one about the bull that he had bought at the sale and how he wouldn't stay in. The guy simply told him "now you know why he was at a market sale " From then on they always tell the sale barn that there mrkt bulls are there because they didn't pass their semen test.
That's for a single here and there. I'm sure the majority they want to sell.
Down here, when selling head cattle, you are expcected to stand up and speal for them. Or if you can;t be tjhere, yopui get the sale barnm people, or one of the traders, or whoever brought them for you to do so. If a cow comes in and no one stands up for them, the auctioneer will ask several times if anyone knows these cows. If no one speaks up, they won;t bring as much, and often the auctioneer will say " Put them in the weigh pen". No one knows where the weigh cattle come from. No time to stand and speak for them if you wanted to they are in the ring for 1-3 seconds. Ever how long it takes them run in the ring from the scales door and run out the exit gate.
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kenny thomas
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Appreciate them with a case of good beer .
SBMF 2015
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They're not that good. Lol
Yard crew we deal with got a couple big jugs of good whiskey and the office girls got their wine of choice other than one wanted a small bottle of spiced rum yesterday. Appreciation goes a long way.
kenny thomas
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Now your talking. That gets a lot done.
Old cow buyer is partial to Sleeman's Brown Ale. A flat of 24 gets me a few cattle from other yards brought to the one we sell at. Taking him a dozen next week for what he bought yesterday.
Main buyer gets a bottle of Glenfiddich at last sale.
wbvs58
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farmerjan
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Sales here in Va are all year. Most close for a week at Christmas. Real bad snow and ice will close them for a day or 2, just because of safety of travel, buyers not coming etc... but it has to be pretty severe, or forecasts of a blizzard type storm.
Last one is first week of Dec. First for next year is lat February. It is a problem to keep the watering system working properly during the coldest part of the year.
