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<blockquote data-quote="prairietrail45" data-source="post: 1235717" data-attributes="member: 23481"><p>Around here some cows will be marked with two upper case B's, one B will be standing up the other laying down (straight edge up) and will overlap the lower bump on the standing up B. This means the cow is broken mouthed, or missing some teeth. Young animals will sometimes be marked 1+ meaning they are at least 1 but not showing 2 year old teeth yet. They usually have some small calves that sell at the beginning, some the guy in the ring will call "dried out" meaning they appear to have already been weaned but weaned too young (these calves usually weigh about 200 lbs and will be pot bellied and longer haired). </p><p></p><p>Good younger bred cows will sell by the head, older bred cows (even heavy breds) will sell by the lb. Unless they say the bull is guaranteed all bulls are sold as no good. </p><p></p><p>If heifers are sold as guaranteed open, that means that if you want to know they are open you can send them back to be checked, or sometimes they will say the heifers were already checked before they sold them.</p><p></p><p>If the guy says "she's stitched" means the cow prolapsed and was stitched up, these are usually pretty obvious, vulva will be swollen and you can see the stitches. If they know they will say if the cow has or has not had antibiotics.</p><p></p><p>I was at a sale one day and was picking up my check a guy was checking out and when the lady told him how much he says "no, I only paid $255 for it" the lady told him, "yes, $2.55 per lb". He argued said the auctioneer didn't make it clear it was by the lb and that he wouldn't pay. Sale barn owner came out and told the guy if he didn't pay for the calf he was calling the police, the guy continued to argue with him, sale barn owner told him all cattle that size are sold by the lb at all sales and that you can't even buy a baby calf for $255. I didn't hang around to see what happened, but I'm sure the guy didn't get away without paying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prairietrail45, post: 1235717, member: 23481"] Around here some cows will be marked with two upper case B's, one B will be standing up the other laying down (straight edge up) and will overlap the lower bump on the standing up B. This means the cow is broken mouthed, or missing some teeth. Young animals will sometimes be marked 1+ meaning they are at least 1 but not showing 2 year old teeth yet. They usually have some small calves that sell at the beginning, some the guy in the ring will call "dried out" meaning they appear to have already been weaned but weaned too young (these calves usually weigh about 200 lbs and will be pot bellied and longer haired). Good younger bred cows will sell by the head, older bred cows (even heavy breds) will sell by the lb. Unless they say the bull is guaranteed all bulls are sold as no good. If heifers are sold as guaranteed open, that means that if you want to know they are open you can send them back to be checked, or sometimes they will say the heifers were already checked before they sold them. If the guy says "she's stitched" means the cow prolapsed and was stitched up, these are usually pretty obvious, vulva will be swollen and you can see the stitches. If they know they will say if the cow has or has not had antibiotics. I was at a sale one day and was picking up my check a guy was checking out and when the lady told him how much he says "no, I only paid $255 for it" the lady told him, "yes, $2.55 per lb". He argued said the auctioneer didn't make it clear it was by the lb and that he wouldn't pay. Sale barn owner came out and told the guy if he didn't pay for the calf he was calling the police, the guy continued to argue with him, sale barn owner told him all cattle that size are sold by the lb at all sales and that you can't even buy a baby calf for $255. I didn't hang around to see what happened, but I'm sure the guy didn't get away without paying. [/QUOTE]
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