It was payday last Thursday.

I asked the trucker what he thought the top half of the steers would weigh, he was right on the money.


It's tough to judge from the vid but feel free to take a guess.
(we did pull the 10 lightest calves from the pen)

1,287

About half an Oprah or Joy Behar.

750lbs

765 on average

Should add these are +/-10 month feeder calves that spent all summer droughted out on sagebrush and tumbleweeds....

1127

given the post you made while I was watching the video,

1058

800

435

What's the cash prize Sam?

VarmintGal will start a thread

Initial thought was 725 average.

Kent

And Wabi will rub ur feet?


A Wabirub.

What they'll look like fed out.

800-850

You can’t hide money , WabiRancher.

1075

Calves look to be in good shape for feb,calves,, I guess 750lb ave

840

IIRC, somewhere around 800 to 900 pounds is the perfect
"ROI" (return on investment) weight for market calves.

Less than 800 pounds and you leave "money on the table".
Over 900 pounds, the price/cwt goes down. That means the difference in price isn't worth the extra time, feed and care required to exceed 900 pounds.

800 to 900 pounds.

900

Yeah, after watching vid again...I doubt they are that heavy. 750 is amended guess. LOL

Stacy Abrams - 10lbs

725 Average

353 kilograms

837

Shouldn't be throwing out hints but...

3 months ago the heaviest steers weighed about 550lbs at weaning.

And we had some cold weather in November and December...



Feel free to take a second guess!

635 or so.

Osky

662

680

Lost count. How many did you haul off?

690

Sam

Your ranching operation is the reason the red Chinese have weather balloons.

Do any of your herd end up in the orient..........

Do you get Christmas cards from feng feng

666 # [evil grin]

715

6hunnert and fiddy.

Give or take.

🤘

I'm good

600 to 625 lbs.

kwg

In do time.

As an expert cattle man
And researching the question a fair bit
I'd say...


About 691

Looks like one of them lost a few lbs.

KB

The ranch calves went out a month or better back at 635. Not knowing when you calved I’ll up mine to 740.

Osky

Osky, we calve late March into June with the late babies.


How about you?

Yes the same. We sent the light ones out a while back, the keepers were heavier. They are in that 740 range right now.

Osky

732

The ranch tries to get the heffers taken care of by the end of April, the cows as you say can string out to June.

625 with a mouthful.

New guess.

601

Yep, nice to not worry about heifers when you're starting to hit the fields.


Sorry but what state?



We are northeast MT.

Does anyone beat your meat?

840

South of you, Powder River country.

Used to know a good ol guy up your way, Bill Rathert. Shot a lot of coyotes up there on the hi line many years ago. All the way west of of Havre.

You know Bill and Irene?!


I've known the Rathert family since I was a kid.

They are good friends with my folks.



We were short on grass and sold Bill a bunch of our bred 3 year old cows about this time a year ago.

He's having some tough health issues now but still checks in with my dad a couple times a week.

I don't know what's left to guess. I'll say 685

I'd guess 750 if you pulled the 10 lightest out.

I'd pour 'em a 770 and give the bigger ones a little more.

Nice looking set of steers. They'd bring good money down here!

625 - 640

How many head you selling?

G23

Know Bill, I don’t know his wife.
Bill still have the dealership in town? Haven’t seen him jeez 15-20 years now. Shame on me.

Good grass this year there? Powder river country had crazy rain, far above normal. Great grass, tons of alfalfa.

770 pounds. If they were being hunted on some of the TV shows, then they would go about 1500 pounds; yielding 1000 pounds of high quality meat for the village elders.

Second sentence was gonna be my 3rd guess.

Osky

He sold out of the garage about 10 years ago.


Our next door neighbor out at the farm, the late Tom Fox, bought him out. His son Mike is about my age and he took over. Great guy as well, go buy a pickup from him!

We had another tough year over on the lake but there were pockets around here that caught a string of good thunder storms.

My dad gets the credit, he has the ration figured out.

And I was tickled with auction. Glasgow had Dickinson, ND beat on the same day which I thought was pretty good.

I only had 27 head in that pen.

And 27 heifers.

867

And thanks to all the guessers, it was impossible to judge from the vid but regardless there were some good guesses.



I'm not sure who is currently closest but the heavy half weight will be revealed in half an hour.

Average between 950 and 1100 lbs

846

820

775

Ron

I'll you what, if a guy has moisture and grass potential for 2023 I'd be buying all the bred cows/heifers I could handle.


Market is starting to take off.

700 lbs average.

874

I think around the low 600's.

Maybe high 5's.

But they look good.

760#

Intermission.
(final answer coming up)

Yes Sir thats a whole lots of beef...

747 lbs, the camera adds 25

The moment you have all been waiting for...



675lbs on the top 2/3.

Bottom third went 633.

So I was right!
🤔

654 average. I knew that.


I was counting 46 lbs of schidtt on their tails.

lol

You may indeed be the winner?!

Off by 15lbs?



Anyone contest the results?

Dang...I said 690.

I think you did!

Or was it 692????



chortle




So you're 15 over.
(Salty is 16 over....lol)



I'm gonna need a tie breaker question....

This, or 710.

Wait a minute..............~!

Close.

Sam do you send them to the miles city Monday ring?

Osky

Dayom.

Yep, knew it all along.

Sorry Sam, I read back and got my answer.

Osky

I said 680 which was my original thought, but I used to drive a cattle truck 😉

Last off topic question Sam, Bill sold out, what happened to the incredible collection of real Indian and pioneer artifacts he had hanging in the showroom? Never seen better.

Osky

We calve at the same time, Mine will average that the 1st of June. Only good news is that I have the luxury of doing it on grass. Gives me a few extra head to eat that Missouri spring flush, add the pounds, then sell. Kind of like buying in stockers, but I know mine are healthy. My cows are pretty small, last few calves I butchered were 1050#

It costs a lot more to get the rough ones out of the brush and penned Sam.



Some can get pretty stubborn and require close bird work. You dont get off your horse in the pens with them.

Im guessing an average of 654 lbs. Nugget

Oh man that room was awesome.

I'm trying to think of a quick way to describe it.


50-60 total big whitetail, mule deer, elk, moose, sheep, goat, bear, buff, coyote, fox, birds, varmints, bucks locked in battle above his office.....

Saddles, all kinds of tack, couple old signs.


People would drive up from Billings to buy an outfit.

Is this dealership in Wolf Point?

Yep.



But the display is no longer.

It was yes. Rathert Ford. Had some incredible Indian clothing from the time of the Indian wars. Bill had incredible things hanging all around in there.

Osky

Bill would love this thread.



I remember the hunting pic board of local trophies that included the obviously fake but funny 20" pronghorn pics from Bill Dasinger and???

Did I win?

You may have indeed won.


Lot's of PM's going on right now.

So if you didn't pull the lighter ones 635

Look like nice critters. If they ain’t black they whack. Looks like was a good move backgrounding them til now sure seems like the market took off. Been a tough damn winter/fall for putting weight on the buggers. I think ours weighed 560 in early November. And they usually closer to 600. Hopefully you got rich!

Where’d this come in on the final tally?

Did nugget win? I said 654.

What did they sell for Sam?

That was my first thought. Must have shrunk a bit on the truck headed to the sale barn.

Forgot to think about the shrink!!!!

Dag nabbit

Colton, good to hear from you!

Lighter weaning weights has been a pretty common theme now 2 years in a row. Not much a guy can do but hope for a turn around weather-wise.

I talked to your FIL last fall and he said you'd been busy hauling water all summer. I hope you don't have to do that again for a long time!





Mooner, I didn't do a final tally but you were in the top 3?




Richard, there were 81 @ 675 and they brought $1420/hd, around $2.10/lb.. The entire pen averaged $1366. Last summer guys were contracting 550lb steers for early November delivery for around $2.10 so I was pretty happy to get the heavier weight at the same price. But of course we had to put 90 days worth of feed into them.

https://www.glasgowstockyards.com/marketreport.php



And yes, I'm sure the shrink took 'em down some. We hauled in the day before the sale but at least it wasn't -20F that night.



DMC, I be happy with just some good spring rain!

Bottoms up, cow poke !

Well Paul, if you insist.....lol




Just got home, maybe I'll try and drown the last of this bastard flu I can't shake!

Well ph uck you too I guess big money Montana cowboy to good for nugget!

Nugget, I think you guessed after I posted the weight therefore it was an invalid entry.


Sorry for the confusion.

I stutter when I read so I posted it after I read your op. So sorry for having a reading disability a-hole..

Here's what we'll do special pard.


You win honorable mention and I'll send you an imaginary ice cream sandwich.

I’m impressed he can read with his a-hole. Disability or no.

That’s a hell of a brown eye!

That’s the nicest thing anyone done for me in a longtime. Thanks mr Montana cowboy! And do you really mean it when you say “we are pards?”

Nugget thinks you better not give up your day job. Cause your jokes kind of suck..

We are special pards Nugget.


And you know what else?


Maybe as an extra special prize, Cuzzin Jim and I could take you to town and find a nice lady to shine up our special Nugget?



Polish Nugget so that everyone can see just how bright he really is?!?!


Sound like fun pard?!

TFF !

No offense, Nug !

Mooner and 99's, the comments are appreciated but lets try not to take away from Nugget's movement, I mean moment...

Thanks guys.

You mean like a for reals women??

Yes.


Just remember, NO biting.