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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1764794" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I am in Georgia. Here, there is no such thing as "buyers" buying transfer truck loads of cattle. Nor are they sold that way. You can bring 20,40, how ever many calves you want, and they are going to be run through one at a time. Calves are weaned anywhere form two days before to day of the sale. No such thing as conditioning calves here. Many do not even cut the bull calves, but they will bring the same to maybe a dime less than steers at that age. People usually wean them at about 6 mos, or 450-500 lbs, which ever gets here first. At that age and that size, and by using the bulls we used, these calves are indistinguishable from other part Angus calves, and sell as well. They will bring more than Hereford or Charolais that age and size.</p><p></p><p>We just carry them to a stockyard when we sell them. I raised Corrientes in the mid 80's to the mid 90's. Then I started breeding my cows to Brangus bulls. Team penning and team sorting was really taking off then, and you want the penning/sorting stock to be uniform in size and color. Plus, these polled, long-legged calves made good calf-ropers as well. I got oput of the stock contractor business about 2009, and now we just sell these straight off the cow at the sale barn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1764794, member: 40587"] I am in Georgia. Here, there is no such thing as "buyers" buying transfer truck loads of cattle. Nor are they sold that way. You can bring 20,40, how ever many calves you want, and they are going to be run through one at a time. Calves are weaned anywhere form two days before to day of the sale. No such thing as conditioning calves here. Many do not even cut the bull calves, but they will bring the same to maybe a dime less than steers at that age. People usually wean them at about 6 mos, or 450-500 lbs, which ever gets here first. At that age and that size, and by using the bulls we used, these calves are indistinguishable from other part Angus calves, and sell as well. They will bring more than Hereford or Charolais that age and size. We just carry them to a stockyard when we sell them. I raised Corrientes in the mid 80's to the mid 90's. Then I started breeding my cows to Brangus bulls. Team penning and team sorting was really taking off then, and you want the penning/sorting stock to be uniform in size and color. Plus, these polled, long-legged calves made good calf-ropers as well. I got oput of the stock contractor business about 2009, and now we just sell these straight off the cow at the sale barn. [/QUOTE]
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