Old cows

[webfoot]

I did the close out cost on our old broken mouth cows from last year. We done good. S0 I went to a bred cow sale today just on a scouting trip. Cows topped at $1,400. Most were around $1,200. The broken mouth cow deal sure wouldn't work today. The kill buyers bought all those bigger framed cows weighing 1,300-1,200 pounds. They were paying $800 a head. Hay twice as expensive and cows costing an extra $150. That just don't pencil for me. The buy of the day was some good bred black heifers from a reputation ranch weighing a little over 1,000 which sold for $1,000. They were bred 6 months.

 

[Faster horses]

I always feel bad for the rancher selling under the market. That had to hurt.
Why do you think that happened? The price of hay or something else?

 

[gcreekrch]

I would have been the owner of some bred heifers……..

 

[webfoot]

I would have been the owner of some bred heifers……..

The main issue is no hay to feed them. That and I didn't go planning or prepared to buy anything.

 

[gcreekrch]

The main issue is no hay to feed them. That and I didn't go planning or prepared to buy anything.

Those are only stumbling blocks!

 

[webfoot]

Those are only stumbling blocks!

I stumble a lot. Sometimes I even fall down. Just last week I took a nose dive off the tractor.

 

[gcreekrch]

I stumble a lot. Sometimes I even fall down. Just last week I took a nose dive off the tractor.

As do I Dave. Happens more often as the years add…….