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"Ship Her" Not to my sale, thank you.
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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 98467" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>BUYER BEWARE! I don't care if it is at a sale barn or at a person's farm. Any person buying a cow should have that attitude going in. No one is ever going to make 100% perfect decisions on cattle, but when you do not automatically believe what an auctioneer or an owner tells you, you learn to find out more about a cow. ALL cows are sold for a reason. I buy 500 or more cows per year. I almost always buy at the sale barn. Once in a while I will buy from a farmer on the farm if I know him and his cattle. Two things are for sure about the owners of cows. They think their cows are younger than they are, and they think they are bred further than they are. People who keep records excepted, of course. I buy thin and suckled down cows that are short bred. I work hard to buy out of complete herd sellouts and any cow that acts wild when I get them home, never gets turned out of the holding pen. I buy cows cheap enough that if i have to sell them for slaughter, I dont lose money. When I find out I have a problem cow, I take her to a local slaughterhouse and get more for slaughter than I would at a sales barn. I can't guarantee the history of the cows that I buy, so when I sell, I always sell at the sale barn and with no story. I never sell to an individual off the farm, because I dont know the history of the cow. The buyers at the barn know me very well and from February-june when I sell those cow-calf pairs they are always asking if I am bringing any next week. Those same local farmers bid and buy my cows each spring. They know I buy and winter the cows, but they know I am a choosy buyer. At this sale barn, if they sell a cow-calf pair, it is a guaranteed pair and if they are not a pair when you get them home, you bring them back and get your money back.</p><p> I have called about cows advertised by owners in newspapers and many times on the phone they tell me they have decided to sell their whole herd that they have raised. When i get there, it is amazing how many times it is someone I have watched buy those cows at the sale barn only a few months before----people can be just as crooked at home as they can at the sale barn, if they want to be. It is your hard earned money, be just as careful about buying cows as you would about spending your money on other things. Most cattlemen are honest, alot are not----keep your eyes open and BUYER BEWARE</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 98467, member: 1150"] BUYER BEWARE! I don't care if it is at a sale barn or at a person's farm. Any person buying a cow should have that attitude going in. No one is ever going to make 100% perfect decisions on cattle, but when you do not automatically believe what an auctioneer or an owner tells you, you learn to find out more about a cow. ALL cows are sold for a reason. I buy 500 or more cows per year. I almost always buy at the sale barn. Once in a while I will buy from a farmer on the farm if I know him and his cattle. Two things are for sure about the owners of cows. They think their cows are younger than they are, and they think they are bred further than they are. People who keep records excepted, of course. I buy thin and suckled down cows that are short bred. I work hard to buy out of complete herd sellouts and any cow that acts wild when I get them home, never gets turned out of the holding pen. I buy cows cheap enough that if i have to sell them for slaughter, I dont lose money. When I find out I have a problem cow, I take her to a local slaughterhouse and get more for slaughter than I would at a sales barn. I can't guarantee the history of the cows that I buy, so when I sell, I always sell at the sale barn and with no story. I never sell to an individual off the farm, because I dont know the history of the cow. The buyers at the barn know me very well and from February-june when I sell those cow-calf pairs they are always asking if I am bringing any next week. Those same local farmers bid and buy my cows each spring. They know I buy and winter the cows, but they know I am a choosy buyer. At this sale barn, if they sell a cow-calf pair, it is a guaranteed pair and if they are not a pair when you get them home, you bring them back and get your money back. I have called about cows advertised by owners in newspapers and many times on the phone they tell me they have decided to sell their whole herd that they have raised. When i get there, it is amazing how many times it is someone I have watched buy those cows at the sale barn only a few months before----people can be just as crooked at home as they can at the sale barn, if they want to be. It is your hard earned money, be just as careful about buying cows as you would about spending your money on other things. Most cattlemen are honest, alot are not----keep your eyes open and BUYER BEWARE [/QUOTE]
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