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dr p 
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Posted: 09 Mar 2024 at 6:53pm |
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Couple years back i had a cow that i knew would never reach her potential at my little farm so i sold half interest in her to a really good cow man, kevin stoltzfus and he housed her at his farm in Pennsylvania. And she did really well in the show circuit. She had a couple of heifers calve in last spring. One of them wasn't very good and had some health issues so we beefed her. But she calved with a heifer out of a pasture bull. So you have a calf with a hole in both sides of the pedigree. Probably not worth the cost of raising. So i tell kevin he can have this one and i will take the next one.
A year goes by and they are looking for consignments for the hard core sale. Kevin puts her in the sale and she is a really nice heifer but thats it. I wasn't at the sale today but according to people who were, a bidding war started between to guys that supposedly don't like each other. When the dust settles, 27,700 dollars for a freaking heifer. Who do you think is happier, the guy who bought her or the guy who didn't ?
Edited by dr p - 09 Mar 2024 at 6:54pm
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thendrix
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Posted: 09 Mar 2024 at 7:10pm |
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$27,700 for a "commercial" heifer? Jeez!! I heard cow prices are up but DAMN!!
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dr p
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Posted: 09 Mar 2024 at 8:15pm |
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She will win a county show but i don't think she can win at Madison. And the heifer who won at madison two years ago sold for half of that
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Posted: 09 Mar 2024 at 8:20pm |
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WOW!
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Posted: 09 Mar 2024 at 8:42pm |
You know the saying, at an auction all's it takes is two... 
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024 at 5:56am |
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I wonder how their wives took the "he started it" excuse?
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024 at 6:05am |
 DiyDave wrote:
You know the saying, at an auction all's it takes is two... |
Same as at a fight, takes two,,,,,,,,,  That is an outrageous price for her. WOW is right! No wonder beef prices are so high! 
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024 at 6:30am |
'more money than brains' ?
hmm, udderly rediculous, I herd it was a real mooving auction sorry, didn't mean to horn in on your story...
Edited by jaybmiller - 10 Mar 2024 at 6:31am
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024 at 5:01pm |
jaybmiller wrote:
'more money than brains' ?
hmm, udderly rediculous, I herd it was a real mooving auction sorry, didn't mean to horn in on your story...
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024 at 9:32pm |
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Nice when things happen like that. 25 years ago we put an open heifer in a Sale At Cobleskill, New York and she was high selling heifer. The Masonic Homes prefix sold the heifer, but the extra money was nice. Congratulations...Harvey
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Posted: 10 Mar 2024 at 11:05pm |
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Man, I could build a nice hotrod for that kinda' money! Damn!
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Posted: 11 Mar 2024 at 9:53pm |
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There is a passage in Proverbs that states "pride cometh before a fall." I think that bidding was a prime example of that.
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Posted: 11 Mar 2024 at 10:49pm |
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I think the happiest guy is the one who sold the heifer. They had an Angus cow near here sell several years ago for over 300k and all you got was the embryos from what I understood of the sale
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Posted: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:04pm |
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What happens if the buyer refuses to pay? I know he won’t get the heifer, but what could happen? Aside from the heifer being offered to the runner up bidder.
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Posted: 12 Mar 2024 at 7:55am |
Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote:
There is a passage in Proverbs that states "pride cometh before a fall." I think that bidding was a prime example of that. |
Yessir, Hubert hit it on the head
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dr p
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Posted: 12 Mar 2024 at 8:15pm |
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I told kevin when something happens that seems to be too good to be true, it usually is. Heifer won't be breeding age until june through September, right during show season. When she goes out on the colored shavings and gets beat. The buyers remorse kicks in. Dairy cows are sold with a guarantee that they will get pregnant. After she loses three or four times that is when the buyer will want his money back, claiming the cow isn't fertile
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Posted: 13 Mar 2024 at 6:37am |
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Livestock Auctions or sales are and have always been Buyer Beware. Will have no recourse if not knowledgable enough to recognize too young for breeding.
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