Birth Weights in The Yards

Can you guys just tell bull owners that you don’t really care what the birthweight was on display bulls?

Let’s talk about taking birthweights for a second.

What else do you do that is more likely to get you injured than taking birthweights?  You’re lifting live weight while under the watch of a protective and hormonal mother.

For some stupid reason, one year I tried taking birthweights for like half a calf crop.  I loved the excitement of it but even I was smart enough to stop by the time the Americans started calving consistently.  

I’ve heard ranchers talk about ten million things they need to do, none of them have said “I need to go check calves and get birthweights” even though that would be one of their sole focuses for several months a year if they actually did it.

Back to the point, we all understand why they put a birthweight on the banners, they have to.

There are plenty of extremely naive people who think every breeding bull has to have a birthweight and think something is up when one isn’t listed.  Their money cashes just as well as, and most of the time better than, money from steer jocks that realize clubby birth weights are bull ****.

It’s not the bull owner’s fault for making up birth weights for their bulls, it’s your fault for expecting them to.