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Bred Heifer Prices

All auctioneers are different. Their job is to get the most money they can for the seller. When you are selling they never seem to get enough and when you're buying they usually do too good of a job. Funny how that works.
 
Big Swede said:
All auctioneers are different. Their job is to get the most money they can for the seller. When you are selling they never seem to get enough and when you're buying they usually do too good of a job. Funny how that works.
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every time :? :(
 
Yesterday, we had 936# Angus bred heifers that brought $970, and 890# heifers that sold for $940. They were at the sale barn for three days with conditions of snow and mud. This didn't add too much to their overall sex appeal. :wink:
 
Soapweed said:
Yesterday, we had 936# Angus bred heifers that brought $970, and 890# heifers that sold for $940. They were at the sale barn for three days with conditions of snow and mud. This didn't add too much to their overall sex appeal. :wink:
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your heifers sure looked like they had a good disposition in the ring, Soapweed. looked to me like someone made a good buy. the bred heifer market seems to be going down hill a bit, but there are alot of younger cows around the country selling for some pretty good money. not sure the reason, maybe folks are getting older and don't want to mess with heifers :?
 
I sold open cows yesterday for $733 per head. Most short solid bred cows sold for less and I would guess all the broken mouth cows sold for less. Looks like a good buy if you have some feed and grass next summer. I have neither so like most good deals I'll miss the boat again.
 
Soapweed said:
Yesterday, we had 936# Angus bred heifers that brought $970, and 890# heifers that sold for $940. They were at the sale barn for three days with conditions of snow and mud. This didn't add too much to their overall sex appeal. :wink:
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Soap
Would you say the buyer most likely considered any bugs that the heifers could catch by being there for three days. In my opinion it also would limit the number of bidders also.

That 3 days may have hurt more than appearance.

We had to overnight some heifers last year at the sale barn. 4 weeks and 3 rounds of baytrol on each of 40 heifers we cleaned the bacterial pneumonia up. Meds cost us around 1500.00 total. Sad part is the barn owner cleans every pen used each week and disinfects twice a year. Some of the heifers lost a good 100 lbs each.

By the time we cleared it all up the heifers would scatter if we showed up in the paddock they were in.

You just cant get them bugs out of the wood work though. :cry:
 
Soap,

Why did you lay those girls in three days before the sale. Afternoon before seems early enough. Weren't they AI'ed? They should have been shrunk down plenty even if they were given some of the salebarn's weedy hay and got a drink.
 
Soapweed said:
Yesterday, we had 936# Angus bred heifers that brought $970, and 890# heifers that sold for $940. They were at the sale barn for three days with conditions of snow and mud. This didn't add too much to their overall sex appeal. :wink:
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Too bad the weather didn't cooperate with the sale better Soapweed.

We are selling some bred heifers this week, but I'm not sure what to expect for a price. They have been all over the board.

They had open bwf replacement heifers in Burwell last week that weighed 676# and brought 1.40 to dollar up at $946. Would've made more sense to buy some of your good bred heifers.
 
BlackCattleRancher said:
Soap,

Why did you lay those girls in three days before the sale. Afternoon before seems early enough. Weren't they AI'ed? They should have been shrunk down plenty even if they were given some of the salebarn's weedy hay and got a drink.
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The trouble with a sale happening on Monday is that it messes up the sale barn crew's week-end. All the workers seemed to want to have the heifers processed by noon on Saturday, so they were hauled in on Friday morning. :? The heifers weren't AIed, but bull-bred to sons of Automatic. They were checked pregnant by a vet back on October 5, 2009. Nothing slunk calves as far as I know, but out of the 68 head hauled to town last Friday, four turned up empty. These four shrunk down to 810 pounds by sale day, and only brought $79.75 per cwt, to bring a whopping $645 per head. I'm glad for the buyer who got them, because he always thinks my cattle come in too full. Maybe since he got such a whale of a bargain this time around, he will continue to buy my weigh-up cattle. :-) The open heifers off the deal that were sold back in October weighed 888 pounds then, and brought $87.10 per cwt. Live and learn, I guess. My next money making cattle proposition might concern itself with keeping over some light steers. :roll:
 
Well at least their gone, Soapweed, and you can get on with the business at hand. It would have been nice if they had done better, but they could have done worse. As for their weight, I'll remind you they went through some tough weather.

And Big Swede, just ignore those two...gcreek and Justin...like I do... :P
When they grow up, they'll have a chance to become wise. :P :shock: :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
One thing is for sure if you sell cattle, you aren't going to top every market, and with all the salebarn games that are played you're bound to be on the losing end of a deal or two if you aren't on the inside of the cattle jockey club. I would not consider those bad prices considering what cows have been bringing, certainly not what you probably hoped for and probably would have been better off selling them as feeders a year ago, but those are the gambles we take in this business, a couple years ago the bred heifer market was red hot and will likely be again.
 
Justin said:
Soapweed said:
Yesterday, we had 936# Angus bred heifers that brought $970, and 890# heifers that sold for $940. They were at the sale barn for three days with conditions of snow and mud. This didn't add too much to their overall sex appeal. :wink:
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your heifers sure looked like they had a good disposition in the ring, Soapweed. looked to me like someone made a good buy. the bred heifer market seems to be going down hill a bit, but there are alot of younger cows around the country selling for some pretty good money. not sure the reason, maybe folks are getting older and don't want to mess with heifers :?
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Wish you would have come over and said "hi," Justin. :wink:

In retrospect, I should have had the sale barn vet come to our ranch a few days ahead of time to work the heifers, especially knowing that there was much more snow and slop in Martin than at home. Then I could have hauled them to town the morning of the sale, in relatively clean condition. Sometimes I'm not too bright. :roll:
 

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