Ky hills
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pdfangus said:jehosofat said:kentuckyguy said:I'm my area of Ky price plays a pretty big part in bull sales. Getting over $1500-1800 will be pretty tough no matter how good the bull is.
Most want to buy a 5-6 month old bull calf for $6-800 and take a chance versus buying a mature semen tested bull for $2000
I can't imagine being that much of a dumb a$$.
not only is it done.....
I have had commercial producers with just cows... buy a decent but from me and then sell the better sons as weanlings to their friends....marketing them as sons of my bull.....had people come and tell me how happy they were with the son of my bull they got from XXX....
I would just tell them to think about how much happier they would be if they had one of my bulls of their own....some would come back later and buy and others kept up the discount route.
had people all the time who wanted to buy a weanling....
the best way I found to combat that is I would point to the weanling bulls and say "Sure....there is probably a $5000 dollar bull in that bunch but I don't yet know which one it is....if you can find him you can buy him today." then I would point to the bulls for sale and say for $$$$ ( the price of the given bull) you can have that one who is ready to go.
No one ever opted to buy the $5000 weanling.
I can imagine that, when you are in the registered business you can have some interesting experiences for sure. When I was, there was a feller come here and said he saw our cows were calving and would I sell him a baby bull calf, that he could raise up for a bull. I did not sell him one, his thinking was he could get it for stockyard calf price. At the very least it would have damaged the cows udder to have done that. Once another feller came by and offered to buy all my bull calves at around 2 months old. He would have even gave me top of the market price, which for me would have been s big pay cut even for that day. He tried and tried to talk me in to selling them. He said now I know you think I would be taking a big risk buying little calves like that they would probably get sick but I will put them on Bovatec. I finally just said they are not for sale at this time.