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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 1348194" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>My biggest knock on sale barns is not in the dealing....</p><p></p><p>my knock is that it is disease central....every cattle ailment that is in the area lives at the local sale barn....and if it is a big sale barn and gets visits from dealers that go to multiple sale barns then it has a wider array of diseases living there.</p><p></p><p>the net result is that if you bring an animal home from the sale barn you are in effect bringing home all the bugs it has been exposed to....if they are the local bugs then you may be lucky and not have an epidemic....</p><p></p><p>but I have seen too many have an epidemic a couple of weeks after they bought that nice heifer etc.</p><p></p><p>had a friend once who added some land....had it cleaned up and fenced it all in and put in an order with an order buyer for about two dozen head of hereford cows bred to a hereford bull....he was commercial but had always had herefords. the cows came at the appointed time and looked okay....about a month later one of them treed a young boy who was helping him and when he drove up to aide the youth the cow rammed the truck...the next day she was dead....several more died in the following days before a diagnosis of anaplasmosis was made not only in the new cows but in his original herd across the road. and he got to treat the whole herd with oxytetracycline...in the days before LA200...daily shots...then when the surviving new cows calved they were bred to everything under the sun...which was fine except it was not what he wanted and had paid for and had to pull a couple of huge cream colored calves. and they calved over a period of about six months...nice tight group of other peoples problems.....</p><p></p><p>I am not knocking backgrounding.........</p><p> but if I am buying breeding stock I want to be able to look a man in the eye before shaking his hand and know where to find him next year if need be...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 1348194, member: 6543"] My biggest knock on sale barns is not in the dealing.... my knock is that it is disease central....every cattle ailment that is in the area lives at the local sale barn....and if it is a big sale barn and gets visits from dealers that go to multiple sale barns then it has a wider array of diseases living there. the net result is that if you bring an animal home from the sale barn you are in effect bringing home all the bugs it has been exposed to....if they are the local bugs then you may be lucky and not have an epidemic.... but I have seen too many have an epidemic a couple of weeks after they bought that nice heifer etc. had a friend once who added some land....had it cleaned up and fenced it all in and put in an order with an order buyer for about two dozen head of hereford cows bred to a hereford bull....he was commercial but had always had herefords. the cows came at the appointed time and looked okay....about a month later one of them treed a young boy who was helping him and when he drove up to aide the youth the cow rammed the truck...the next day she was dead....several more died in the following days before a diagnosis of anaplasmosis was made not only in the new cows but in his original herd across the road. and he got to treat the whole herd with oxytetracycline...in the days before LA200...daily shots...then when the surviving new cows calved they were bred to everything under the sun...which was fine except it was not what he wanted and had paid for and had to pull a couple of huge cream colored calves. and they calved over a period of about six months...nice tight group of other peoples problems..... I am not knocking backgrounding......... but if I am buying breeding stock I want to be able to look a man in the eye before shaking his hand and know where to find him next year if need be... [/QUOTE]
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