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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 868244" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>You need to know how the barn sells. Is it first in sell first? Is it by size and sex? If you take them in the day before what time to the pull them off feed and sort? How long do they stand around before they sell? </p><p>My local barn sells by size and sex. So light steers sell before heavy steers, then to heifers and so on.... They will sort calves that came in the night before at 8:00 in the morning. So bring them in early will cost you shrink. </p><p>The yard I sell my calves at (not too local) generally sell by the order they came in but they also sell large groups. Last week they sold 1,600 calves in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Almost an hour into the sale my calves were still on feed and water. They weren't sorted more than an hour before they sold. In that case having them there early helps eliminate shrink.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 868244, member: 498"] You need to know how the barn sells. Is it first in sell first? Is it by size and sex? If you take them in the day before what time to the pull them off feed and sort? How long do they stand around before they sell? My local barn sells by size and sex. So light steers sell before heavy steers, then to heifers and so on.... They will sort calves that came in the night before at 8:00 in the morning. So bring them in early will cost you shrink. The yard I sell my calves at (not too local) generally sell by the order they came in but they also sell large groups. Last week they sold 1,600 calves in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Almost an hour into the sale my calves were still on feed and water. They weren't sorted more than an hour before they sold. In that case having them there early helps eliminate shrink. [/QUOTE]
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