Livestock Auction | Cull Cows

It's snowing. It's cold. We're going to the sale barn. Hey guys, today we're going over to the sale barn in St. Onge. It's about 15-20 miles from our place. But we're actually going to be selling about 30 of our cows. So, dad why did you choose to cull these cows? What's the reason for that? What age do you find it's best to sell them? Or what age do you try and cull them? So we usually cull about 70-80 cows a year. And then replace them with our replacement heifers, which are younger cows. So today we're going to be selling about 35. And then we'll sell another group in about a month or so. And then we'll be selling some open cows sometime as well. Quite a few people here. That is the best thing about coming to the sale barn. We're going to go find a burger. Is this your first time at a sale barn, babe? No. Are you sure? Is it? Yeah. Have you been here? Here's an old picture of the sale barn. They've got tons of pens out back. It's getting pretty crappy out. Thanks man. No problem. Alright Damaris, give me a food review. Fries, crispy. Crispy fries? Yeah. You like them crispy? 9 out of 10. 9 out of 10? Burger, great. I give that 9.5 out of 10. Wow, you're pretty generous. How about you, Dan? Probably a 7.5 out of 10. I like my fries a little less crispy. So this sale barn has cow sales every Friday. And we brought in 35 head of bred cows that we were going to sell today. And cows are usually sold and classified based on their age. And the best indication of their age is the quality of their teeth. So when they get to the sale barn, the vet will actually go through the cows and look at their teeth and determine how old they are and how much more of a productive life they have. So they look at their teeth and they'll either classify them as being a heifer, 4 or 5 year old, 2, 3 year old, or their teeth will be considered solid, short solid, or broken. After the vet looks at the cow's teeth and sees what they are, he'll put a tag in their ear with these color coding and will actually show the buyers and everyone in the ring what these cows are, how old they are, what kind of productive life they still have. And then the sale ring actually acts as a scale. So when they have other sales or if they're selling cows by the pound or by 100 weight, you can look at the scale, see what everything weighs, and then divide that by the number of head in the pen or they also sell cattle on a per head basis as well. But it acts as a scale to sell those different ways and that's just usually how they sell bred cows. And I believe the next pen of cows coming in is going to be the first group of ours that are going to get sold, probably the younger ones that they'll start with and then they'll move on to the older and lower quality teeth cows. We check the quality and condition of the teeth of all of our cows when we were preg checking and that's how we determined which cows we wanted to cull and get rid of. And then we also went through and culled some of the younger cows that we didn't really like the body of them and stuff. So I believe the pen after these red ones is going to be the first group of ours. These cows are going to start calving February 15th. Cows have all been home-raised. They've had the very old lip toe. They've been fed on the back program. Anything else, Jeff? Raise big calves, yep. You want to raise a good big set of calves. Here's a set of young cows. Threes, fours, and fives. Yep. February 15th calvers. I mean, really nice set. You want to calve early? You want big calves? Get in if you want them. I don't know how many you're going to be able to compare. Thirteen calves. And look at these good solid mouth cows. Yep, the short solids are broken from the bottom of the same cavity group. Boys, look at that. Wow. A few need to compare. He needs to compare. He needs to get 10. Quarter, 10-1-half. 12-15. 14-5. There, it needs to get 10-15. 10-Quarter, 9-1-Half. He needs to get 35. 35. All in done. They need to get 35. 10-25. They get 35, 35, 35, 35, 35. Yes or yes? Pay me to get 35. 10.25. Pay me to get 35. I'm not far from the skips. Well, I got 9.50. I'm like a cemetery. We'll start anywhere. I got 75. Now 1,000. Now quarter. Now half. Pay me to get 10. Quarter. Half. 75. Pay me. Where you at, Casey? 10.50. 10.75. Pay me to get 10. 10.50. Casey's way. 10.75. You're out on the internet. Now 11. I'm not far. Pay me to get 11.25. I take 11.10 if he does a quick one. 11.10. Pay me to get nine. Get nine. Pay me to get 11.00. Pay me to get nine. Get nine. Pay me to get 11.10. Pay me to get 10. Get 10. Sold. 1,100 bucks. 10.52. Short, solid, broken. Big cows now. They're going to tromper down. Yep. That's all this sold. Those good big cows. Early calvers now. Keep that in mind. 14.95. 9.25. I had 5. 9.75. Younger, bigger. 9.75. Sold. 9.60. That's that. 81 or? Huh? 81. Yep. Sold the cows. Demarest was sad because we sold them. White face. It's really nice to have gotten those cows sold and to have been able to stop feeding them now since we are pretty short on feed. We do like to feed them up a little bit and fatten them before we sell them. It just helps the whole process of that. It's good to not have to do that anymore. We can have more feed for everything else. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. Thanks for coming along. Like and subscribe. See you in the next video.