Stirling bull sale.

juke

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Location
DURHAM
Don't beat yourself up, selling in Stirling is a funny old game!
Overfed, oversized and overfat tends to sell best up there, even though many of the buyers say they don't want that.

Some reasonable quality bulls went cheap and some overfat uncorrected scrap made double what it should have.
It's always the way at any bull sale, buyers want overfed bulls as that's what they pay for,so that's what breeders do
 

juke

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Location
DURHAM
No thats not what i do, (which is probably why my perfectly good well bred sim bull will by now swinging from a meat hook)
Not saying there's anything wrong with your bull, just saying that's the way of the bull sales, big arses n too much cake is what buyers want even though they pretend they don't , soon as they go through the mart door their brains get left behind.
 

Hesstondriver

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Huntingdon
Not saying there's anything wrong with your bull, just saying that's the way of the bull sales, big arses n too much cake is what buyers want even though they pretend they don't , soon as they go through the mart door their brains get left behind.
i think it must be an ego thing - they dont want their mates to see them buying a bull thats plainer or just muscle
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
i think it must be an ego thing - they dont want their mates to see them buying a bull thats plainer or just muscle
Who knows what the reason is, I can't figure it out either. Send a bull that's well looked after ,exercised not over done and it doesn't do too well. Send a bull full of cake that's going to melt into nothing n likely be a Jaffa you make a load of money. Until the buying culture changes alot of breeders won't.
 
The report reads quite well
There were quite a few unsold, and quite a few reasonably good bulls sold at lower prices.
Some better ones made their value but there were a few horrific things that made the upper end of 4 figures just because they had big back ends, but I'm betting their daughters will be big horrible cows.
 

nails

Member
Location
East Dorset
The report reads quite well
There were quite a few unsold, and quite a few reasonably good bulls sold at lower prices.
Some better ones made their value but there were a few horrific things that made the upper end of 4 figures just because they had big back ends, but I'm betting their daughters will be big horrible cows.

The Society always make sure it reads well even if trade is dire:whistle:
The trade at Stirling bull sales is always a bit of a headscratcher.
 

juke

Member
Location
DURHAM
The Society always make sure it reads well even if trade is dire:whistle:
The trade at Stirling bull sales is always a bit of a headscratcher.
Been too many sales of different breeds and reading the after action report seems to always differ from what I see with my own eyes. Sale reports tend to be creative.
 

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