We took a small load of calves to Winnsboro Tx sale. We had our daughters 3 steers out of her old show heifers, all averaged 700+.. we also had a couple of ours..Not sure the circumstances as to the small load, but there were just 5. I knew all these calves to a T, all ours had markings.
We've used this sale many times, its a little further for us to go to, so we only go if we want to spread out big loads over the week if we haul lots of them out...but again, not sure exactly why we went this day with this load. Anywho, go back that evening to get our check. Husband first looks at the weights...Uh, no way. One was like in the 400s and nothing over 600 Absolutely not, nothing in our trailer was that small.. It was late, so we were looking at it with the cab lights...i then spotted, white. They had us for a white calf. Another was solid black...Daughters calves were all red. Ours was black, but had a white face. SO we marched back in to see. I dont remember exactly everything because it was so bizarre, nothing was even close to right. Luckily, i could pull up pictures of every calf on my phone, but didnt have to. The white one was good enough for them to realize, yep, we screwed up.
What happened is, and they say it happens a lot.....When the calves lose their tags, they just sub one in. Apparently they have a pool of lost tag calves they just grab a color and weight and add it in if you come up with less calves on your ticket......whomever tagged our calves did a bad bad job i guess..
Its a thought..
