Stockyard error

[denoginnizer]

Last week I took 12 heifers , that belonged to a friend to a stockyard close to my house. Pulled up in the unloading area and the guy asked me what I had and I loudly said 12 heifers. After putting stickers on the cattle , he handed me my reciept and I started to leave but not before double checking all the info on my receipt.
He had written 11 heifers on my ticket. What part of 12 sounds like eleven? I hope it was an honest mistake but I will always double check everything someone else rights down from now own concerning cattle I am recieving or dropping off.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I have always been lucky, but I check, buying or selling. Those people are human and subject to making mistakes. I've got the numbers wrong in my checkbook enough times through the years and can only blame myself.

 

[Bullbuyer]

Our place uses in-weights and I trust them but I always walk with my cattle to the scales. Doesn't matter if it's some old cows or some great calves, I always go with them. Better to be sure than to worry about it later.

 

[A6gal]

I took one heifer to the sale three weeks ago. It was already dark when I arrived and they unloaded her. They took the information, handed me the ticket and the guy said it was late and he'd put her in a pen by herself and tag her in the morning.

When I got the check and info in the mail it said one steer sold. I looked back at my drop off ticket and he had wrote steer on it as well.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

If I am shipping more than one or two I go watch the sale too. Too many errors for me to recount. And I wouldn't mind having the "brand inspector" job either - I can read AT LEAST as good as whoever gets ours wrong almost every time.

 

[Travis B.]

We wait until they tag them before we leave too, even if it is dark already. Too many mistakes made in past years.

Travis Bryan