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<blockquote data-quote="Craig-TX" data-source="post: 171488" data-attributes="member: 39"><p>Thanks for the vote of confidence LA. lakading, he's right. I guess I didn't make myself clear enough. I was talking about making selling decisions and scales not being necessary for that. A rancher hardly ever buys calves so there's no need for scales on that end. If buying private treaty I would just look each cow over and decide what I would give for her. It wouldn't matter to me exactly what each weighed. Same for calves if I actually had enough grass to buy some for gain - ha. </p><p></p><p>As for buying or selling a bunch of calves, try this sometime. Guestimate the weight on each. If you practice in the salebarn you will get pretty decent at it. Let's say you are weighing 10 calves and you miss each one by 25-50 pounds. You're going to be heavy on some, light on others. Figure that times what the average price is at the time. You'll be high on some and low on others. Generally your misses on weights will average out and you will be within 50 pounds for the total. Same with the prices. You'll surprise yourself on how close you can get on the total weight and price. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, thanks again LA for clearing it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Craig-TX, post: 171488, member: 39"] Thanks for the vote of confidence LA. lakading, he's right. I guess I didn't make myself clear enough. I was talking about making selling decisions and scales not being necessary for that. A rancher hardly ever buys calves so there's no need for scales on that end. If buying private treaty I would just look each cow over and decide what I would give for her. It wouldn't matter to me exactly what each weighed. Same for calves if I actually had enough grass to buy some for gain - ha. As for buying or selling a bunch of calves, try this sometime. Guestimate the weight on each. If you practice in the salebarn you will get pretty decent at it. Let’s say you are weighing 10 calves and you miss each one by 25-50 pounds. You’re going to be heavy on some, light on others. Figure that times what the average price is at the time. You’ll be high on some and low on others. Generally your misses on weights will average out and you will be within 50 pounds for the total. Same with the prices. You'll surprise yourself on how close you can get on the total weight and price. Anyway, thanks again LA for clearing it up. [/QUOTE]
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