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Shipping red calves yesterday

Soapweed

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Red steers ready to load
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The mommas are across the fence
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Some of the boys
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Peach Blossom and Saddletramp, loading steers on a cool morning
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My dad at the back, and my bride up front
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One of the truckers
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Saddletramp in action
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Getting in some lighter weight calves to haul on our stock trailer
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The grass is still green after the snow melted.

107 head of the red steers averaged 648# @ $116.60 cwt, and 98 heifers averaged 596# @ $109.90. They were off about $15 per cwt from last year. The market this week was probably $2-$3 lower than last week. There is no use in going to the casino, when a trip to the sale barn allows a person to gamble all they want. :wink:
 

Shortgrass

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Soggy ol calves. Glad you put in the weights, but the pictures told the story. Nice ticket on them. Would be nice if the market was holding, but all things considered I would guess you are satisfied. Hope things will be at least that strong when I move. Guess I'll Just wait till things go plump to pot--usually do. Your calves sure had some class.
 

Soapweed

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Shortgrass said:
Soggy ol calves. Glad you put in the weights, but the pictures told the story. Nice ticket on them. Would be nice if the market was holding, but all things considered I would guess you are satisfied. Hope things will be at least that strong when I move. Guess I'll Just wait till things go plump to pot--usually do. Your calves sure had some class.

Thank you, kind sir.
 

Manitoba_Rancher

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Very nice looking red calves Soapweed! Those are the kind us feeders desire to feed! Youve got a good looking set up there for handling cattle. We shipped some hiefers this week and they were down a good .15 per LB from two weeks ago. Things are sliding up here as well. Seems a lot of it is related to the cost of feed.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Great lookin steers Soapweed. PeachBlossom and Saddle Tramp deserve some congratulations too, since they work at gettin em to this point also. Looks like it was a lil bit on the COLD side for this days job. Glad all went well with shipping and selling.
When do ya sell the blacks?
 
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Anonymous

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Yep- really nice looking calves, Soap...I sure wish these around here would weigh up like that- but I doubt it with the dry conditions...My cousin had to sell his two weeks ago because he was out of grass and short on water- a month earlier than normal, but they weighed 125 lbs less than normal :roll: Kind of a kick in the pants.....
 

wdcook

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Great looking calves, Soapweed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume they had not had any commercial feed. Their daddies sure must have had some real good EPD's. :roll: Only creep will allow us to get clvs anywhere near that fleshly here. We usually have large quantities of grass, but it has too much 'poison' (fescue endophyte) in it.
 

Mike

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Soap, you ever tried feeding calves out yourself? I mean retained ownership.

You certainly have nice calves but selling on the grid gives one an idea how their calves stack up on the kill floor and sometimes there's a few extra dollars for Peach Blossom to shop with. :lol:
 

Soapweed

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Great lookin steers Soapweed. PeachBlossom and Saddle Tramp deserve some congratulations too, since they work at gettin em to this point also. Looks like it was a lil bit on the COLD side for this days job. Glad all went well with shipping and selling.
When do ya sell the blacks?

We sold some of the black steers last week, and plan to sell some more this coming week. Heifer calves aren't extremely valuable this year, so I think we will keep most of the better black heifers through the winter, and probably breed them next summer.

We did this with last years' heifer crop. The open yearling heifers off the deal sold last Monday. They weighed 938# and brought $105.07 per cwt.

The calves have had no commercial feed, other than salt and mineral. I do try to rotate our cows and calves around to our very best grass all summer long. Any left-over summer pasture is then grazed with the cows after the calves have been sold or weaned.

Having tried retained ownership three times through the years, and losing money two of those times, I'm a bit gunshy. Someone else can have the opportunity to have that part of the fun. :wink:
 

PPRM

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The best money I ever mad was retianing ownership, but feeding them out myself. Custom feeding by others has been hit or miss, we are about to finish putting together a deal where I will feed my own again with a big part of it being frozen grader waste from a frozen vegtable plant.....I am looking forward to it....

Soap, whatever you have done, you have done well. Those calves are in great shape. My guss is a lot of it goes back to you saddling up and going out and looking yourself,

PPRM
 

AX-

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Nice looking calves! Just curious to what breeder you get your bulls from in that part of the world. I have a couple guesses. Again, good job on your calves!
 

Soapweed

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katrina said:
Soap, do you take them off water??

We don't purposely either take them off water or encourage them to drink it. Usually it is early enough in the day when we start getting them in, that they haven't drank beforehand. We do like to get them up close the night before and give them hay. It seems to solidify them and there is less shrink.
 

Soapweed

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AX- said:
Nice looking calves! Just curious to what breeder you get your bulls from in that part of the world. I have a couple guesses. Again, good job on your calves!

Thank you. These red calves were all sired by red Simmental bulls, purchased from Van and Kathy Neidig of Battle Creek, Nebraska. They raise high quality cattle, with excellent dispositions.
 

Soapweed

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Manitoba_Rancher said:
Soapweed,

Are those purebred bulls? I remember seeing the commerical black bulls you bought back in the spring. Are they off of Red Angus mothers?

The red bulls are registered red Simmental, although I didn't request any papers. Our black bulls are just commercial cattle, though mostly pure Angus. The bulls we used on our yearling heifers this summer were either sons of Bon View New Design 878 or Connealy Lead On.

I usually sell all of our bulls in the fall and start over with yearlings in the spring, but so far haven't been able to sell my used bulls. I might have to winter them and use them again next year. They are good looking bulls, so that wouldn't be all bad.
 

Texan

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Nice, nice red calves, Soapweed. Nothing wrong with those prices, either. I always figured that if I wouldn't buy cattle for what I sold cattle for, that they were high enough. I bet you don't want to buy any $755 steer calves do you? :lol:
 

Badlands

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I really like the Neidig cattle, but that might be because they used some good Montana bulls as the base. :D

Even though they compete well with their cattle some, they ae still "using" cattle.

Real nice calves, thick and soggy, but trim.

Badlands
 
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