g creeks steers sale today

[miocene]

hey dave i saw your cattle sell today at the lake 3 steers weighing 842 went for 1.19 next 3 steers weighed 742 going for 1.23 ? i think.cattle looked good and full saw 40 head of picard creek steers weighing 445 go for 1.6975 extremely green ylgs.

 

[burnt]

445 yearlings? :shock:

 

[Faster horses]

What did the goat bring?

 

[3words]

I don't really see that as being that wonderful of a price,espesially after having to feed those calves all winter,doctor them,and hope no deathloss.My calves last fall almost averaged $850 and that was right off the cow,that was all my steers and heifers and late calvers,and the price of cattle hadn't started to climb like it is now.

 

[3words]

I don't mean to rain on your parade,if you are happy with those prices,congradulations glad you done well!!

 

[gcreekrch]

I don't really see that as being that wonderful of a price,espesially after having to feed those calves all winter,doctor them,and hope no deathloss.My calves last fall almost averaged $850 and that was right off the cow,that was all my steers and heifers and late calvers,and the price of cattle hadn't started to climb like it is now.

There were only 30 yearlings in total. They were the frozen ears and dinks that didn't fit loads we sold last fall. The oldest of them was 12.5 months and the youngest 5 were born in early June. We did not touch a calf from weaning for sickness and for living on a bale feeder of swampgrass haylage and getting 4 lbs of pellets AND having a 340 km haul behind them the morning they sold I am quite happy with their weights and prices.

Edit: Just remembered to add there were no implants in this set of cattle, kind of an experiment you might say. I haven't seen the invoice yet but I believe Miocene posted the heavy calves. There were lighter ones that brought more per lb and a handful of little ugly heifers.


Burnt, them 445 lb yearlings were from one of those grass only don't feed them grain because you may ruin them, Hereford is the only breed guys.
Those calves should have all recieved medals for surviving the winter.
Somehow, a lb a day from birth at any cost operation is not what I would call profitable.

 

[3words]

I don't really see that as being that wonderful of a price,espesially after having to feed those calves all winter,doctor them,and hope no deathloss.My calves last fall almost averaged $850 and that was right off the cow,that was all my steers and heifers and late calvers,and the price of cattle hadn't started to climb like it is now.

There were only 30 yearlings in total. They were the frozen ears and dinks that didn't fit loads we sold last fall. The oldest of them was 12.5 months and the youngest 5 were born in early June. We did not touch a calf from weaning for sickness and for living on a bale feeder of swampgrass haylage and getting 4 lbs of pellets AND having a 340 km haul behind them the morning they sold I am quite happy with their weights and prices.

Edit: Just remembered to add there were no implants in this set of cattle, kind of an experiment you might say. I haven't seen the invoice yet but I believe Miocene posted the heavy calves. There were lighter ones that brought more per lb and a handful of little ugly heifers.


Burnt, them 445 lb yearlings were from one of those grass only don't feed them grain because you may ruin them, Hereford is the only breed guys.
Those calves should have all recieved medals for surviving the winter.
Somehow, a lb a day from birth at any cost operation is not what I would call profitable.

When you put it that way,i think you did very good on your calves!!

 

[miocene]

I must clarify dave is coorect in his desciption of those light herford steers.as for the owner of the cattle he is bordering on neglect in my opinion.if he had fed those little farts as gcreek did he would have put considerable weight on and still been in the grass market.i missed the prices on gcreeks other cattle but they all had a shine to them.