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I Luv Herfrds
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Joined: 08 Nov 2007
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Location: Montana
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We normally get a decent price at that yard so we were pretty
surprised.
There is a yard south of us that we would always get 10 or
more cents less then anything else there.
watched them once and they ran ours in as fast as possible and out
as fast as they could, they ran the blacks through alot slower.
Haven't been back there with anything since.
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Denny
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Location: Mn usa
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Denny, you are right about who weaning is hardest for! No matter how you do it, it's hard on owners, at least those of us who do the work that goes along with owning cattle.
Do you realize how lucky you are to live so close to a good 'home' for your calves?
However, the more stressful it is for the calves, the less quality the beef will have, IMO. When they go off feed and water for a time, and bawl for days, it's logical that there will be a quality price to pay. Research indicates that any time off their feed adds to toughness of meat.
Stress to the cows? I doubt that has much consequence....except to the owner again when he/she has to fix the fence the old fools go through!
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Our calves are trucked 300 miles to the feedlot but we are lucky in our area to have a local cattlemen's assn: who's sole purpose is to aid in the sale of members cattle.No commission just a $1 weigh fee and $1 checkoff..$40 for yearly due's we spend all our money on scale yard maintenance and advertiseing...
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mrj
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You take them further than I would have guessed. We usually weigh on the trucks at the local elevator if we don't take them to Presho sale barn. Not sure what they charge to weigh, but doubt it's much. But, it's going to be about 300 miles just to get out of SD if they don't go to a SD feedlot, and most of those are a couple hundred miles from us or more, and ours often go into western IA.
mrj
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Denny
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| We take them 12 miles to the scale yard weigh them there and get paid after that it's the buyer's responsability to get them to the feedlot.We don't have alot of trucking or schrink time on our end it is a very good deal for us.
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I Luv Herfrds
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Location: Montana
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Noticed last night that there was no bawling between the calves and cows. All calves are eating really well. we used to be able to see them shrink when weaning. They look like they are growing instead.
The old way we used to hear them bawling for at least 12 days or more. Drove me nuts every time I stepped outside. Glad those days are gone.
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