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Full of bull(s)

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Livestock Farmer
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North Yorkshire
Just seems odd really, must take a while.
Round here if more than two come into the ring someone always wants one splitting off, by the time they mess about throwing sawdust on its back and then having to stop selling four times to tell someone else whether they are selling the one with sawdust or the one without they might as well just sell in singles. I don’t like buying in bunches myself you fill a pen before you know you’ve started and there’s always a kipper slipped in. Richard Garside told me once you have a minute to look at the best and six months to watch the worst in a bunch. Butchers will only buy singles they know better
 

Shebb90

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Location
Devon
Round here if more than two come into the ring someone always wants one splitting off, by the time they mess about throwing sawdust on its back and then having to stop selling four times to tell someone else whether they are selling the one with sawdust or the one without they might as well just sell in singles. I don’t like buying in bunches myself you fill a pen before you know you’ve started and there’s always a kipper slipped in. Richard Garside told me once you have a minute to look at the best and six months to watch the worst in a bunch. Butchers will only buy singles they know better
Does make sense I guess, just different from done here.
 

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
Did anyone else see the Shetland ponies going through Worcester, they were only the size of lambs and a far better job.(should you fancy a change)
Mad wasnt it £1500-£2000 the ones i saw go through , wasnt so long ago they were £100-£150. They made the cobs at builth yesterday look cheap. Horse trade has improved across the board starting when everybody wanted one during lockdown
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Round here if more than two come into the ring someone always wants one splitting off, by the time they mess about throwing sawdust on its back and then having to stop selling four times to tell someone else whether they are selling the one with sawdust or the one without they might as well just sell in singles. I don’t like buying in bunches myself you fill a pen before you know you’ve started and there’s always a kipper slipped in. Richard Garside told me once you have a minute to look at the best and six months to watch the worst in a bunch. Butchers will only buy singles they know better
Cannot think of anything much worse than standing at a store cattle sale if they were all singles. Quite often see 20 in a pen here , would say a sale average would be around 4 or 5.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Cannot think of anything much worse than standing at a store cattle sale if they were all singles. Quite often see 20 in a pen here , would say a sale average would be around 4 or 5.


There's a farm near me puts stores into Dumfries, they could enter 30 but the whole lot will be put through as singles.

It kills the sale every time.
 

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