Soapweed
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While sitting in a salebarn today, seven head of nice looking bred two-year-old heifers entered the ring. They weighed 1050 pounds each. Five were black and the other two were black baldies. Had they been bred on time with their mates, they should have been done calving about three weeks ago. Evidently they got bred by neighbor's bulls later in the season, and these bulls could have been any breed including Charolais. The heifers had been pelvic measured at some point before being kept as replacements. Anyway, they should calve sometime in the next month, and they were for sale. I only bid once, but ended up bringing them home at the $1135 per head figure. Nice replacement yearling heifers a year younger were bringing almost that much, and they won't be bred until this summer and won't calve for another year. It remains to be seen how this little experiment will turn out. (I might keep you all informed, but then again I might not.) :wink: