We sold our calves last week. The prices are lower than they have been in a few years, but they do call it a cattle cycle. At the sale barn, they sort them by weight into groups. We have enough now to make several nice pens of cattle, rather than selling one or two at a time. The same guy bought three or four of the large groups. (They sold early, but they were the nicest looking cattle we saw sell.) Between ours and our neighbors, we sold around 50 head of 9 month old calves. From here they will go to a feedlot, then on to the packing plant. If you want to eat the best hamburger anywhere, come to our sale barn. I don’t know what for sure makes them so good, maybe the scent of manure wafting through the café or the mooing in the background, but oh my, those are good hamburgers, and I am not really a huge hamburger fan. I used to work in this town, and it was a treat to run down there on a Friday for a burger. They also serve homemade potato salad and pies. I am starting to miss working!
Friday – sale day
December 8, 2008
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Dec 09, 2008 @ 16:22:00
Oh, I love your new header. Love. It.I’ve never been to a cattle sale and I’m on the squeamish side of aromas (my brother is a dairy farmer and it takes great courage for me to enter the milking parlor) but for some reason it sounds like fun. Is it a relief to see them go or a sadness?
Dec 09, 2008 @ 21:28:00
@magistramater – The picture. I took it nearly two years ago when we had an ice storm that knocked the power out for three days. (I also used it as a background on our Christmas photo)The sale. Cattle in close quarters never smell good. They smell just fine out in the pasture. I think GD felt pride. He has some favorites (a bull we didn’t stick around to watch sell) that I think would be difficult to watch sell. We have a tame 4H cow from 2002 who may very well die of old age on our place.