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What do ear tags tell you? Take 1. No tag.
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<blockquote data-quote="Phil in Tupelo" data-source="post: 658533" data-attributes="member: 1425"><p>I understand what SL is saying and from my limited experience he does make some good points. Yes, if your herd is large enough and you have been in business long enough that your farm/ranch has a good rep, then you likely don't need the tags as suggested. But the average producter, with 10 to 30 cows, who never goes to the barn but to drop a load to sell and maybe stay long enough to watch them sell could very well fit into what SL is saying. In my area if an animal has no ear tag it is not that the owner is too cheap to use them, just that he has no facilites so they are not worked just caught, loaded and sold. So it doesn't matter if the buyer's perception is right or wrong, it is how he judges the animals he/she is bidding on so an animal that is tagged, cut and dehorned will be looked on with more favor (right or wrong) and will bring more than an untagged calf that is not cut or dehorned. It likely works for barns that sell calves one at a time. If a number of calves of one owner are sold together, tagged or not, they likely do better because the owner has asked the barn owner to do that. It sits the calves apart for the normal run. SL comments do not apply to the guys and gals that do everything they can to get the best prices for their calves but to the other 80% that don't do some of the things to get a better price, they are leaving money on the table. IMO</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phil in Tupelo, post: 658533, member: 1425"] I understand what SL is saying and from my limited experience he does make some good points. Yes, if your herd is large enough and you have been in business long enough that your farm/ranch has a good rep, then you likely don't need the tags as suggested. But the average producter, with 10 to 30 cows, who never goes to the barn but to drop a load to sell and maybe stay long enough to watch them sell could very well fit into what SL is saying. In my area if an animal has no ear tag it is not that the owner is too cheap to use them, just that he has no facilites so they are not worked just caught, loaded and sold. So it doesn't matter if the buyer's perception is right or wrong, it is how he judges the animals he/she is bidding on so an animal that is tagged, cut and dehorned will be looked on with more favor (right or wrong) and will bring more than an untagged calf that is not cut or dehorned. It likely works for barns that sell calves one at a time. If a number of calves of one owner are sold together, tagged or not, they likely do better because the owner has asked the barn owner to do that. It sits the calves apart for the normal run. SL comments do not apply to the guys and gals that do everything they can to get the best prices for their calves but to the other 80% that don't do some of the things to get a better price, they are leaving money on the table. IMO [/QUOTE]
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