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Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
@Alice
Yes it does vary. Somedays there are only piece of crap animals that should not have been allowed to live that long. lol Somedays, like Fri, there were actually some rather nice animals.
The sale here is only goats, sheep, and cattle. The do other sales every once and a while with horses, llamas, alpacas, donkeys, ect but there are not often. The do the sheep, goat, and cattle sale every Mon and Fri. Oh and pigs.
I always go and check the stock pens too. That way you can see them and also the animal owners hang out there so you can talk and get to learn stuff about the animals. An advantage I have is that I know several of the people that bring most of the animals. They live right down the street from me and I already know about their Boers and their goats and what kind of care they would need. Some of them have Boers that placed at the very top of the Fair this year and every year but I know more about the animal than that. I know what they feed, how much the feed, ect. Yeah, not buying their goats. lol
I know they have health record on some of the cattle but it's VERY rare they have any of that on any goat or sheep. They do sometimes sell with papers though.
The reason you may have never been burned is because you know animals. You know a good one from a bad one and a healthy one form a sick one. You must have a good eye to buy from a sale, but no way would I risk it.
@Bridge
lol I was told the one I go to is the largest east of the Mississippi. haha It is rather large. Could hold 1000 goats and sheep and a few thousand cattle. I've never seen a dead animal here. Some close to though...
It wasn't the Jacob with the broken horn. Some other sheep.
@Alice
It's fine!! Go ahead and say w/e you wish. It's funner that way.
I would say things are run very well here and very smoothly. They can be a bit harsh to the animals, harsher than they need to. But nothing real bad or that I would say is wrong, you know?
The animals here don't get water because they must be brought in that day. They do make some exceptions for some people and they will take care of them, but that's mostly the cattle, not sheep and goats.
The will take extra info and health sheets ect. but not many people bring them here because well most are sick/cull animals or these are people who have a large amount of goats but, how shall I put this, know nothing about goats. haha Not top of the line goats for sure.
It looks like yours is a better auction as far as quality for sure. Quality animals don't come thru here that often.
Yes it does vary. Somedays there are only piece of crap animals that should not have been allowed to live that long. lol Somedays, like Fri, there were actually some rather nice animals.
The sale here is only goats, sheep, and cattle. The do other sales every once and a while with horses, llamas, alpacas, donkeys, ect but there are not often. The do the sheep, goat, and cattle sale every Mon and Fri. Oh and pigs.
I always go and check the stock pens too. That way you can see them and also the animal owners hang out there so you can talk and get to learn stuff about the animals. An advantage I have is that I know several of the people that bring most of the animals. They live right down the street from me and I already know about their Boers and their goats and what kind of care they would need. Some of them have Boers that placed at the very top of the Fair this year and every year but I know more about the animal than that. I know what they feed, how much the feed, ect. Yeah, not buying their goats. lol
I know they have health record on some of the cattle but it's VERY rare they have any of that on any goat or sheep. They do sometimes sell with papers though.
The reason you may have never been burned is because you know animals. You know a good one from a bad one and a healthy one form a sick one. You must have a good eye to buy from a sale, but no way would I risk it.
@Bridge
lol I was told the one I go to is the largest east of the Mississippi. haha It is rather large. Could hold 1000 goats and sheep and a few thousand cattle. I've never seen a dead animal here. Some close to though...
It wasn't the Jacob with the broken horn. Some other sheep.
@Alice
It's fine!! Go ahead and say w/e you wish. It's funner that way.
I would say things are run very well here and very smoothly. They can be a bit harsh to the animals, harsher than they need to. But nothing real bad or that I would say is wrong, you know?
The animals here don't get water because they must be brought in that day. They do make some exceptions for some people and they will take care of them, but that's mostly the cattle, not sheep and goats.
The will take extra info and health sheets ect. but not many people bring them here because well most are sick/cull animals or these are people who have a large amount of goats but, how shall I put this, know nothing about goats. haha Not top of the line goats for sure.
It looks like yours is a better auction as far as quality for sure. Quality animals don't come thru here that often.
And is that Miss Alana too? Lovely girl.
He would be here sooner but he's not done with his business at my dad's quite yet.
