Am i mistaken that the semen was produced and stored long before they got to the stockyard so anything there should not have effected it?
If the Charolais bull was 2100 they stole him at $1500. This week thin, crippled, or just sorry bulls were worth 2.50 on the rail here. So if he just cut 40% he would be worth $2100.
No, they stuck the electric prod up their butts and collected there while they had them in the chute. I watched them test the Char and the Brahma. The vet and his techs just kinda shrugged it off. They said it was just the environment...that both had a pen full of calves there. 5 of the 8 they tested failed.
One boy unloaded a nice looking 5 yr old SimmAngus. Gentle as a Jersey milk cow. He said he was just getting to big for his cows, and wanted to just weigh him and sell him for slaughter. The barn people came up to him when we were talking, and said they weren't selling anything by the pound that day, and that if we wanted the bull to bring anything he better get him tested, Or leave him there til Tuesday and sell him with the weigh cattle. Vet said his bull tested higher than any one there except for this young Ang bull. It sold for $3100. The boy hadn't even brought the papers with him, because he thought he was gonna be sold with the weigh pen cattle for slaughter. He bought that 14 month old reg Ang bull, that had the highest BSE score that day, for $3300 to replace him, so he was pleased with it all.
On the way home, I thought of something I should have done at the sale. A man brought about 15 Char cows. Best conditioned cows I saw all day. Not one bad foot and every udder as perfect as you could ask for, Beautiful cows. Youngest ones were 4, most 5 or 6, and two were 8 year olds. Anywhere from 3 mos to 6 mos bred. Smallest was 1100 something pounds, and the biggest were 1350-1400. They sold from $1150 to $1500. I
should have bought them and left them there til Tues, and sold them as weigh cows. And I think that guy that bought them is going to do that. He works at that sale barn. A 4 yr old Char, 1300 lbs, with a 4 month old heifer calf brought $1650 for the pair.
I did get to see my first red Char cow, or the first I knew as a red Char. She was 3 yr old, calved 2/21/21, weighed 1350. She was homozygous polled, homozygous red, guaranteed dilute free. 8 mos bred to a red Char bull. They read his name and EPDs etc., but those didn't mean anything to me. I know nothing about Char genetics. I remember thinking that we are about to see a cow break $4k. She brought $1800!! We all figured, auctioneer as well, that they would NO SALE her, but the woman said let her go! Couple of people THEN tried to raise bids, but the auctioneer told them she was sold, and to go talk to the buyer. I know the boy that bought her. He has commercial black and bwf Simms and SimmAngus, and uses Brangus bulls. I am going to ask him if he sold her if I see him there Tuesday. Dunno what he would have wanted with a red or any other color Charolais, other to re-sell her. $1800 for a 1350lb, 4 yr old cow, 8 mos bred to a Char bull would bring $1800 at any sale barn, even if it was a dang Corriente x Holstein cow!
