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<blockquote data-quote="Rafter S" data-source="post: 1235477" data-attributes="member: 21194"><p>The chalk thing may be regional. Around here if you take a cow in and you think someone might buy her to go back in the pasture then you tell them to palpate her when you unload. They will then palate her and check her teeth, and put numbers on her with a branding iron dipped in paint. The number of months bred will be on her hip, and her age on her shoulder. After a certain age (I think around eight) she'll either be marked SS, for short and solid teeth, or O for old. The bidding on these will usually be by the head, but may be switched to per pound if she doesn't bring enough. And sometimes old cows start by the pound right away. </p><p></p><p>Cows that don't have the numbers on them are automatically sold by the pound. I'm sure some of these still go back to someone's pasture instead of to slaughter, but it's riskier for the bidder since all he'll know about the cow is what he can tell by looking at her in the few seconds she's in the ring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafter S, post: 1235477, member: 21194"] The chalk thing may be regional. Around here if you take a cow in and you think someone might buy her to go back in the pasture then you tell them to palpate her when you unload. They will then palate her and check her teeth, and put numbers on her with a branding iron dipped in paint. The number of months bred will be on her hip, and her age on her shoulder. After a certain age (I think around eight) she'll either be marked SS, for short and solid teeth, or O for old. The bidding on these will usually be by the head, but may be switched to per pound if she doesn't bring enough. And sometimes old cows start by the pound right away. Cows that don't have the numbers on them are automatically sold by the pound. I'm sure some of these still go back to someone's pasture instead of to slaughter, but it's riskier for the bidder since all he'll know about the cow is what he can tell by looking at her in the few seconds she's in the ring. [/QUOTE]
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