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Got home awhile ago... I got things done, loaded in the car and went to work. Of course, did not get going as fast as planned... never seem to get away when I really want.
Got to the farm and got everything carried in and set up Owner was milking as the "milker" I usually work with was off. Things went smoothly and got done in good time. Computer entries all went fast, and I was loaded and out of there by 6 ish. Went down to the other farm and dropped the sample bottles... he is planning to test next week so that is fine. Then stopped and topped off the gas since it is cheaper right around there and with my little discount card, get $.05 per gallon off right at the pump. So I decided to go to the stockyard to the sale which was 15 miles north.
DS had decided to take the 2 open cull cows there too... so made the 2nd trip up with the trailer... they sell baby calves and cull cows on Wed... plus the special bred cow sale once a month; 2nd Wed; and a special dairy replacement cow sale once a month; 4th Wed;....
The 2 cull cows looked real good and they had a bunch of FATS (fed out fat kill cattle) so it worked out good. Prices were good for the 2 culls... one only weighed 850 lbs... she was "little" ..... she raised a real nice calf but was open. The other was a 3rd calf one that had been checked preg... never calved and was checked open the other day. Lost the calf somewhere along the way... not feeding her either... She weighed like 1100 maybe ( I haven't gotten the weight tickets yet to make copies to file. ) The short one brought a little over $1.00 lb which was sorta expected due to her "light weight" ... They like cull cattle to weigh in the 1100-1500 range most times. The other one brought like $125 or 1.30 I think... Decent cull price.
Then at 7:30 they do the "Bred cow sale"... There were some cows from a farm selling out... with some really small calves... That brought in the $3-3500 range... some brought in the 25-2800 range that were not as good. Ours were "our culls" remember... the 3 nut cases... They had bigger calves.... 300lb steer on the hereford... 500 lb nutty heifer on the one cow and a 400 lb steer on the other cow. They brought between 3100 and 3400 per pair. Figuring if he split them and culled the cows and sold the calves separate, they would have brought in the 2600-2900 range... so they did a little better than splitting... I thought that was good and the idiots were gone... DS said you would think that they would have done a little better, due to alot bigger calves, than the ones with smaller calves... comparing the calf sizes... but said that they did okay.
None were mine, not getting anything out of them... this whole group he bought from that friend last summer... and left on the friends' leased pasture until his lease ended in like Aug or something... so has had them maybe 6 months... 4 calves weaned off earlier... some more weaned now... he did okay with the prices.
It is late, I didn't realize it was midnight... carried the samples in and will pack in the morning, so I can take them with me to the funeral and drop off at UPS afterwards.
Got to the farm and got everything carried in and set up Owner was milking as the "milker" I usually work with was off. Things went smoothly and got done in good time. Computer entries all went fast, and I was loaded and out of there by 6 ish. Went down to the other farm and dropped the sample bottles... he is planning to test next week so that is fine. Then stopped and topped off the gas since it is cheaper right around there and with my little discount card, get $.05 per gallon off right at the pump. So I decided to go to the stockyard to the sale which was 15 miles north.
DS had decided to take the 2 open cull cows there too... so made the 2nd trip up with the trailer... they sell baby calves and cull cows on Wed... plus the special bred cow sale once a month; 2nd Wed; and a special dairy replacement cow sale once a month; 4th Wed;....
The 2 cull cows looked real good and they had a bunch of FATS (fed out fat kill cattle) so it worked out good. Prices were good for the 2 culls... one only weighed 850 lbs... she was "little" ..... she raised a real nice calf but was open. The other was a 3rd calf one that had been checked preg... never calved and was checked open the other day. Lost the calf somewhere along the way... not feeding her either... She weighed like 1100 maybe ( I haven't gotten the weight tickets yet to make copies to file. ) The short one brought a little over $1.00 lb which was sorta expected due to her "light weight" ... They like cull cattle to weigh in the 1100-1500 range most times. The other one brought like $125 or 1.30 I think... Decent cull price.
Then at 7:30 they do the "Bred cow sale"... There were some cows from a farm selling out... with some really small calves... That brought in the $3-3500 range... some brought in the 25-2800 range that were not as good. Ours were "our culls" remember... the 3 nut cases... They had bigger calves.... 300lb steer on the hereford... 500 lb nutty heifer on the one cow and a 400 lb steer on the other cow. They brought between 3100 and 3400 per pair. Figuring if he split them and culled the cows and sold the calves separate, they would have brought in the 2600-2900 range... so they did a little better than splitting... I thought that was good and the idiots were gone... DS said you would think that they would have done a little better, due to alot bigger calves, than the ones with smaller calves... comparing the calf sizes... but said that they did okay.
None were mine, not getting anything out of them... this whole group he bought from that friend last summer... and left on the friends' leased pasture until his lease ended in like Aug or something... so has had them maybe 6 months... 4 calves weaned off earlier... some more weaned now... he did okay with the prices.
It is late, I didn't realize it was midnight... carried the samples in and will pack in the morning, so I can take them with me to the funeral and drop off at UPS afterwards.
