09/30/11, 10:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 117
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Originally Posted by nchobbyfarm
Just got back from 4.5 hours at the sale. I decided not to bid and just watch. I will begin my herd later. My friends cows went off as follows:
The oldest 926 pounds at .61/pound for $564.86
The two middle cows were 844 at .55 for $464.20 and 808 at .50 for $404.00
The calf was 608 at .65 for 395.20
I learned that color matters. All the black cows went for .30 to .45 per pound more. The white faced black were .15 to .25 more.
The bulls and steers were even higher.
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I'm just flabergasted that open cows of that age didn't even weigh 1,000 lbs. But management is as important as genetics sometimes. Why did he sell them? I think eventually you'll be glad you didn't buy them.
For reference, we weaned a lot of 700+ lb bull calves in our registered Angus herd. Not all of them, but it wasn't that unusual. Heifers were lighter, but would certainly weigh 1000 at 18 months old (and they'd be bred, too). Our mature cows were 1200-1400 lbs and lived on grass in the summer, hay and cubes in the winter. We AI-ed them to big Angus bulls because every bull customer who walked on this place bought the biggest bull out there.
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