AAOK said:
Personally, I think it's nuts to buy Show Calves/Cattle at a Sale. You can always find better for less from the small breeders. Where do you think most of the jockeys find the calves for the Sales? All the years our girls were showing, the competition was paying 2 to 3 times what we were asking. The age old story, we could sell to the surrounding States, but not at home. Shop with your neighbors, and support the local economy.
Hair grows back but sound structured cattle that are not fat get better.Many are so show ring blind that they cant tell one in its everyday clothes.Kinda like a pretty girl with no makeup.I have had clipped calves and better non clipped calves in the same pen and unless they are really sharp cant see thru the hair.I know of calves that have brought 20 times what they were bought for at a sale barn with a group of good cattle.
Yea , I like it when someone comes by and looks at a calf and says that they aren't good enough. They go to a sale and spend several thousand dollars more for a calf. Someone else comes along and buys your calf and beats the other calf that cost several thousand dollars more.