r/Cattle

I have two yearling steers I'm trying to sell asap to help cover surprise medical costs for my father. Not trying to sell them on here via this post as that would violate community rules. I'm posting to ask how y'all have gone about selling cattle outside of hauling them to an auction. I'm not finding success on Facebook or marketplace and everyone around me has cattle so selling to neighbors isn't working either. How have y'all managed it?

I once had a cow with a vaginal and anal prolapse. I tried calling every veterinarian for help within a very large area and no one was available. Finally, one veterinarian just told me I should put her down. So I butchered her that day.

So reading this story about a veterinarian who was trying to help people online and had the government backed monopoly licensing board take his license away makes me angry 😡. Licensing boards are pure greed - their sole goal is to keep prices for their members high by limiting licenses. They will have some BS holier than thou excuse, but that is the real reason. All government enforced licensing should be done away with. If I had known this guy was available, maybe I could have saved that cow.

Need to buy a bull for breeding this December. Told the neighbors that id buy him in September and they could house & use him until he's needed here, they have 2 dairy heifers they want to breed.

Disease and quarantine period are my top concerns so here was my plan. Provide 90%+ of the materials so the neighbor can build a new ½ acre pasture on their property, virgin ground that's never pastured animals. I figured it would be a fresh pasture he could quarantine in & breed their heifers.

I've got utility posts for the corners/h-braces (thinking of cutting them at 8ft) and enough t-posts & barb to run a 6 strand fence. Also have enough wire/clips & extra charger to run 2 hot wires on the inside.

He's had his heifers since bottle calves, they're about 2yrs old. The bull will probably come from the sale barn. I figured he'd quarantine over there for 2-3 months and hope any issue would pop up over there before bringing him home to my girls.

How else would you mitigate disease issues?? Or any other worries i should think bringing in an unknown bull??

I’m wanting to sell raw milk for my friend with whom I share a cow. Is a written share contract all I need, to sell from my own property? I will not be advertising.

When I was a kid my grandfather had red polled cattle. Haven’t found much information on them. My dad took to the fair and had a fair amount of grand champions with them back in the early 50’s.