Steer calf pics

[Silver]

We got rid of most of the steer calves this week, so I thought I'd take this last opportunity toshow how they looked.

Pics from our place:

From the auction, a 4 hour drive away:

We had this pen of 59 head at 610 lbs, another of 42 at 550 lbs, and a few odds and ends between 650 lbs and 740 lbs. All in all the liner that hauled these calves mistakenly loaded too heavy. He put on nearly 69,000 lbs of calf instead of 63,000 lbs :shock:
All in all we had 118 calves at the sale with an average weight of 574 lbs, not too bad for mostly april calving.
Unfortunately the prices were dropping like a stone this week.... well, that was unfortunate for the sale barn because they guaranteed us a price. So when it's all said and done they will write us a cheque for the difference.... nearly 10 cents a pound :shock:

 

[burnt]

That is one heck of a set of calves. Good work.

 

[katrina]

Really nice.... Hope your happy too

 

[RSL]

Good calves. The market is crashing hard. I would be interested to know more about the Guaranteed price deal... That sounds too good to be true.

 

[Faster horses]

Wow, you can get the sale barn to guarantee you a price?
That's awesome.

Nice calves. One has his ear down though. Did they cut him back?

 

[Whitewing]

Impressive animals and impressive operation as well. Thanks for the pics!

 

[per]

Nice calve Silver. Where is the auction mart at?

 

[Sundancer]

Hmmm....an auction with a guarantee. There could be some federal official sneaking around this sight hoping that you answer Per's question!
And I bet the sale barn is a little nervous with the pictures that are posted here as well. I don't know about Canada, but an auction barn on this side of the border that guarantees a price will not find favor in the eyes of the Packers and Stockyards boys :???:

 

[WyomingRancher]

Nice set of calves . When will your heifers go?

 

[flyingS]

Hmmm....an auction with a guarantee. There could be some federal official sneaking around this sight hoping that you answer Per's question!
And I bet the sale barn is a little nervous with the pictures that are posted here as well. I don't know about Canada, but an auction barn on this side of the border that guarantees a price will not find favor in the eyes of the Packers and Stockyards boys :???:

Ya, but you know damn good and well it happens in the States too. I had a fella interested in consigning his calves to sale on the Video a year ago last Aug. The local barn manager told him he could get $1.20 out of them at the barn in Oct. Those calves were worth about $1.05 at the time they sold. Low and Behold they Bring exactly $1.20. Figure that out. How many other consigner were setting there wondering what the hell was wrong with their calves.

 

[Soapweed]

Those are nice looking calves, Silver, and they are carrying a lot of depth and thickness. Sounds like they weighed heavy and sold well. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[Silver]

Hmmm....an auction with a guarantee. There could be some federal official sneaking around this sight hoping that you answer Per's question!
And I bet the sale barn is a little nervous with the pictures that are posted here as well. I don't know about Canada, but an auction barn on this side of the border that guarantees a price will not find favor in the eyes of the Packers and Stockyards boys :???:

If there is a law against that it's the first I've heard of it. Auctions give guarantees for equipment, realestate, vehicles, you name it. Why would cattle be any different?
Sale barns are having a tougher time getting cattle these days, offering a guarantee seems like a good way to ensure a following. In our case they wanted us to consign pretty bad. Larger, more even groups are hard to come by around here anymore, and they offered terms we liked so we went with it on a handshake. We could have just as easily went directly with a buyer, but the auction yards terms were the best this year.

 

[Silver]

Hmmm....an auction with a guarantee. There could be some federal official sneaking around this sight hoping that you answer Per's question!
And I bet the sale barn is a little nervous with the pictures that are posted here as well. I don't know about Canada, but an auction barn on this side of the border that guarantees a price will not find favor in the eyes of the Packers and Stockyards boys :???:

Ya, but you know damn good and well it happens in the States too. I had a fella interested in consigning his calves to sale on the Video a year ago last Aug. The local barn manager told him he could get $1.20 out of them at the barn in Oct. Those calves were worth about $1.05 at the time they sold. Low and Behold they Bring exactly $1.20. Figure that out. How many other consigner were setting there wondering what the hell was wrong with their calves.

That's not right either. In our case they went to the high bidder, and the barn was not bidding.

 

[Silver]

Nice set of calves . When will your heifers go?

Not sure yet if or when the heifers will go. They will only fetch about 80 cents right now and I'm not interested in giving them away......... yet :?

 

[gcreekrch]

Good for you Silver, that was a really nice set of steers.

 

[Grassfarmer]

Your calves look tremendous Silver - a fine accomplishment for your years work. Only a pity the returns weren't better.

 

[Hereford76]

nice calf crop, corrals, looking county....

curious to know about your steel corrals. did you cement in that pipe or just drive it in the ground. if you just drove it in how deep?

 

[Silver]

Your calves look tremendous Silver - a fine accomplishment for your years work. Only a pity the returns weren't better.

It's not my years of work GF, I'm just the third generation, slowly buying into what the second generation has built up from what he slowly bought from the first generation :wink:
But thank you.

 

[Silver]

nice calf crop, corrals, looking county....

curious to know about your steel corrals. did you cement in that pipe or just drive it in the ground. if you just drove it in how deep?

The pipe is pushed in the ground with a front end loader about 4 to 4 1/2 feet. Seems to do the job in this ground. Alot of our pens now are formed by free standing panels about 26' long. I'm getting to really like the free standing panels, you can move and reconfigure things on a whim and they don't fall over. If we are worried about a spot that may have a lot of pressure on it we just push a steel post in and wire the panels to it. I plan to buy 4 or 5 panels a year for the rest of my natural life

 

[Grassfarmer]

Your calves look tremendous Silver - a fine accomplishment for your years work. Only a pity the returns weren't better.

It's not my years of work GF, I'm just the third generation, slowly buying into what the second generation has built up from what he slowly bought from the first generation :wink:
But thank you.

OK so I missed out an apostrophe - it meant to read "a fine accomplishment for your year's work" I didn't say "years of work either" though so I guess we're both wrong :wink: