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- September 17, 2012 at 9:33 pm #44055AnonymousInactive
Working Steers for Sale or Possible Loan
I have a team of 15 month old trained steers but I am 7 months pregnant and no longer have time for them. I would keep them to beef next fall but I would much rather see them used by someone and we don’t have enough hay to keep all of our stock through the winter so I am looking to sell them now or loan them out for the winter to someone who has the hay or willingness to buy hay for them.Sale:
A friend told me that trained steers usually go for about a dollar a pound, this pair is each 600lbs so I am asking 1200 for the pair, but I would like to keep them on until December because my friend/ox mentor is planning on working them in our woods until then (So they would be bigger/more experienced and still $1200).Loan:
I would also consider loaning them out to someone who is a beginning teamster looking to gain more skills (though you should have some experience, because they are larger animals). Or a teamster who could use a smaller team in the woods or something for the winter and is willing to keep them on. If they were to develop bad habits or something while with you I don’t think the freezer will mind come next fall I only expect them to come back healthy. And if you grew too attached to them, or one died or something, you could buy them or one for the same price come spring.More Details:
They are Ayrshires with a touch of Normandy, well matched in size and conformation but not color, one is mostly red and the other mostly white. They are trained to work as a team and each has some training on their own as well (commands and a little time in yoke and britchen but neither has pulled anything on their own yet, I didn’t have a good enough fit with the single yoke). They know commands and have pulled various things as a team, I have tried to focus on getting them used to strange things behind them but they have never been pushed weight wise because I was afraid to sour them on it. - AuthorPosts
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