I see the point of what yall are saying. I kind of dislike the ones that on every lot they sale they retain the right to one flush at the owners convenience. I understand that if your raising show cattle and are breeding for them to calve at the same time every year, then generally the flush can be arranged between calving and breeding without disrupting your schedule, I also understand that the person retaining the flush pays for the flush, and I also understand that in a lot of cases those flush rights never get used. But seriously, its like they are taking a crap shoot, the heifer isnt good enough to keep in their opinion, but if you somehow do a good enough job and she becomes famous they want to have rights to some eggs. I ussually skip those breeders that put that stipulation on every lot they sale.
I understand it more if there is a really good breeder, with a really, really nice heifer that they would normally keep and they know for a fact they wont eggs out of her. The way I see it then, is they are willing to let someone else have her to improve their program, they just want one set of eggs out of her, that way she can work for both of you. I dont mind the breeder that does it on the occasional exceptional specimen, but the ones that put that stipulation on every lot they sale kind of baffle me. In fact the way I generally see it is they have the factory that produced it, if they want to sell this one and still keep the genetics, then just go to the factory thats in your pasture and make another one.
The one that really baffled me is a guy wanting to retain interest in a steer. I am helping a family that is on a budget, but wants the best calf they can get on that budget. As we all know that is possible to do, it just takes a lot of shopping and looking, sometimes you can get your hands on a really good one cheap depending on the breeder. Anyway I saw a guy post some pics of calves that I thought would work for us. So I called him and asked him what his price ranges were. He told me they started at $5,000 and went up. I told him I appreciated his time but that was almost double this families budget. He responed by saying tat he would sell them the steer for $2500 but he would keep half interest. I didnt understand that at all. But after thinking about it, I may should have done it, after all if he retained half posession, we could have sent him half the feed bill.