poultryrancher
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I just sold my 4-H steer at auction on Monday. I miss him terribly, but it was a real learning experience and I want to be in Steer Project again next year.
Anyways, no one at my county fair shows breeding cattle (even though their is a catagory for it). It's just not popular. My steer, T-Bone, who I just sold, has a half sister who is six months old. As much as I miss T, I think buying hs sister would be about as close as I could get to keeping a little piece of him forever. I would show her as a breeding heifer at next year's county fair. Anyways.....So the rancher doesn't try to WAY overcharge me (I payed $850 for a steer with so-so conformation and had a 50/50 chance of being a bull 'cuz someone screwed up while castrating him), what is the going price right now for 6 or 7 month old heifers (they are being weaned about that age, right?)? She isn't a purebred. She is red with a white face. 1/2 hereford, 1/4 angus and 1/4 shorthorn (she has the same mama as T-Bone).SO....WHAT'S A FAIR PRICE FOR A 6 month old, 4-H BREEDING PROJECT HEIFER?
Anyways, no one at my county fair shows breeding cattle (even though their is a catagory for it). It's just not popular. My steer, T-Bone, who I just sold, has a half sister who is six months old. As much as I miss T, I think buying hs sister would be about as close as I could get to keeping a little piece of him forever. I would show her as a breeding heifer at next year's county fair. Anyways.....So the rancher doesn't try to WAY overcharge me (I payed $850 for a steer with so-so conformation and had a 50/50 chance of being a bull 'cuz someone screwed up while castrating him), what is the going price right now for 6 or 7 month old heifers (they are being weaned about that age, right?)? She isn't a purebred. She is red with a white face. 1/2 hereford, 1/4 angus and 1/4 shorthorn (she has the same mama as T-Bone).SO....WHAT'S A FAIR PRICE FOR A 6 month old, 4-H BREEDING PROJECT HEIFER?