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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 1235980" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>They do it a lot. Usually it makes a few hundred dollars difference. If bidding is good, they don't split. There are less older cows in the market now. Most were sold off back in the drought. Much less going through than what there used to be. </p><p></p><p>I buy beef calves to graft onto nurse cows, which leaves me in the market - a lot. Probably why I pay so much attention to pairs. A week old calf has had its fill of colostrums and is already on its way. There's value there and the ring man knows it. Most everyone who frequents the barn knows that splits happen if the bidding does not support selling as a pair. </p><p></p><p>There are many times I would have been better off buying the pair and splitting them myself. I had assumed the ring man would split because of lack of bidding. I should have been getting in on the action. In those cases the seller lost and he lost a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 1235980, member: 3162"] They do it a lot. Usually it makes a few hundred dollars difference. If bidding is good, they don't split. There are less older cows in the market now. Most were sold off back in the drought. Much less going through than what there used to be. I buy beef calves to graft onto nurse cows, which leaves me in the market - a lot. Probably why I pay so much attention to pairs. A week old calf has had its fill of colostrums and is already on its way. There's value there and the ring man knows it. Most everyone who frequents the barn knows that splits happen if the bidding does not support selling as a pair. There are many times I would have been better off buying the pair and splitting them myself. I had assumed the ring man would split because of lack of bidding. I should have been getting in on the action. In those cases the seller lost and he lost a lot. [/QUOTE]
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