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woltemathangus

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Buy a heifer at a sale, she comes home and looks better and better everyday.  <rock>
Or buying an animal at a minimal price and thinking of what she could have brought at another sale.

Makes the ones that get away not feel so bad!

I don't think I am alone!
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AAOK

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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.
 

Doc

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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.

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.
 

cowpoke

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Doc said:
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.
 

heiferbabe787

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I boughth a heifer this year for $400 from a local breeder and showeed her at a show with some pretty good competition and got fourth out of thirteen.and found out later that i placed infront of a $5000 dollar calf. Not trying to brag just saying that it happens. ::)
 

3dfarms

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At our State Fair a few years ago in the Angus show a bred and owned heifer stood in front of one who topped a sale a few months earlier at $20,000.  I bought a heifer at the Dixie National a few years ago whose full sibs avg $3500 a few months prior in a production sale.  Got her home and took her to our fall shows a few months later and she brought home banners, I paid $1400 including bringing her home
 

simba

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Last year at Agribition I showed my bred and owned 4-H two year old cow/calf pair in the Polled Hereford Show. She placed third in class... Right in front of a cow owned by a big name breeder that had just sold a 1/2 interest for $20,000. You can bet that the owners of that cow weren't very happy with the judge!
 

knabe

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Placing in classes my not be relevant to the issues one is seeking to address in their herd.
 
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