Ain't no one saying its a place for a ''newby'' to go buy cattle but all are not culls or bad either. Say you or cowgirl8 get killed in a wreck and the kids load all your cattle up and take them to a sale barn does that mean they just became culls or bad cattle ? not if they were good before. Your kids might not would do that but there is plenty that would, mine has been raised around cattle his whole life and has no use for them, would probably sell them and let the place grow up and just deer hunt it. He has a good job and would rather hunt the land than raise cattle on it.pdfangus":938zys1p said:I gotta stand with cowgirl8......
if I am looking for cows....I find someone with the cows I want and buy them off the farm....I know where they came from and where to go back to if they are not as advertised....
disease is a valid reason to avoid the sale barn...everything every cow can catch can be picked up at the sale barn....
When we established our registered herd we bough a cut of weaned heifers from a herd I had worked at as a cattle manager and never bought another animal. We bred up from there....
there are no shortage of cows for sale in the country.
for someone with zero experience to go to a sale barn and buy something unknown is a recipe for disaster.
not saying you guys who have been running cows since noah parked the ark can't do well at the sale barn...more power to ya...
but it is no place for a newby to get started...
I really wish more people felt like you all do, would make more money for some of us to make off them sale barn culls. Them good buys are getting harder to get to many people there buying them and taking them back home.