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<blockquote data-quote="ddg1263" data-source="post: 604927" data-attributes="member: 8445"><p>You know I am just starting to get some experience at the sale barns. And from what I have witnessed there are some marginal stock that come through there. As the above posters have said you need to have an isolation area to keep them before turning them into your main heard. On my first purchase I bought up some decent yearlings at a great price. I kept them in my coral and for some reason my main heard came to the coral to sniff those new heifers through the fence. Well they all got a cold, and are still to this day cough from time to time. After I breed them I am going to vac my whole heard. So health is a huge issue. On my second purchase I bought a few mama cows, and I picked up one really wild heifer. She would run me out of the ring when I tried to work her. So I had to load her right back up the next week and sold her at a loss. However, on the good side, most every farmer is going to want top dollar for their stock. And often at times they can be just as orniary or problematic. I have come to the conclusion that if you are in the business you have to take the good with the bad and watch what you purchase from anyone you buy from reputable or not. The advantage at the sale barn is that you will pay close to market price for a cow, and if you buy direct, you will usually pay top dollar for you heifer. Either way, you can still have problems, and reading the solutions to those problems from the posters on this board has been more valuable than any sale I have been to!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ddg1263, post: 604927, member: 8445"] You know I am just starting to get some experience at the sale barns. And from what I have witnessed there are some marginal stock that come through there. As the above posters have said you need to have an isolation area to keep them before turning them into your main heard. On my first purchase I bought up some decent yearlings at a great price. I kept them in my coral and for some reason my main heard came to the coral to sniff those new heifers through the fence. Well they all got a cold, and are still to this day cough from time to time. After I breed them I am going to vac my whole heard. So health is a huge issue. On my second purchase I bought a few mama cows, and I picked up one really wild heifer. She would run me out of the ring when I tried to work her. So I had to load her right back up the next week and sold her at a loss. However, on the good side, most every farmer is going to want top dollar for their stock. And often at times they can be just as orniary or problematic. I have come to the conclusion that if you are in the business you have to take the good with the bad and watch what you purchase from anyone you buy from reputable or not. The advantage at the sale barn is that you will pay close to market price for a cow, and if you buy direct, you will usually pay top dollar for you heifer. Either way, you can still have problems, and reading the solutions to those problems from the posters on this board has been more valuable than any sale I have been to! [/QUOTE]
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