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Superior Livestock Auction - September 24, 2020
Superior Livestock Auction
Thursday, September 24, 2020
BROADCAST LIVE FROM
SUPERIOR LIVESTOCK STUDIO
FORT WORTH, TX
DISH NETWORK ~ CHANNEL 997
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SUPERIOR SUNRISE- 7:30 AM CDT
VIDEO AUCTION- 8:00AM CDT
*** OFFERING 23,460 HEAD ***
75 CORRIENTES
4,635 YEARLING STEERS | 2,810 YEARLING HEIFERS
8,710 WEANED CALVES | 6,065 CALVES ON COWS
1,165 BEEF DAIRY CROSSES
| CORRIENTES | 8915 |
| REGION 3/4/5/6 FEEDER STEERS | 8916 - 8946 |
| REGION 3/4/5/6 FEEDER HEIFERS | 8947 - 8965 |
| REGION 1/2 FEEDER STEERS | 8966 - 8972 |
| REGION 1/2 FEEDER HEIFERS | 8973 - 8977 |
| BEEF DAIRY CROSSES | 8978 - 8984 |
| REGION 2 WEANED CALVES | 8985 - 8991 |
| REGION 1 & 2 CALVES ON COWS | 8992 - 9013 |
| REGION 5 & 6 WEANED CALVES & CALVES ON COWS | 9014 - 9036 |
| REGION 3 & 4 WEANED CALVES | 9037 - 9085 |
| REGION 3 CALVES ON COWS | 9086 - 9090 |
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Calf Health History Leads to Higher Selling Value
Calf Health History Leads to Higher Selling Value
By Jacques Fuselier, DVM, DACT, DABVP, Technical Services Manager, Merck Animal Health
Producers often will ask how they can get a higher price for their calves when they sell them. The Superior Livestock 2018 sales data demonstrates providing buyers with a signed certificate, especially one verified by your veterinarian, documenting the health history of your calves will result in a premium paid by buyers of $15 to $35 per head.
PrimeVAC™ by Merck Animal Health is an example of a value-added program that focuses on respiratory and clostridial vaccinations, as well as protection against internal parasites. It also includes optional implant protocols.
The health protocols not only help increase the value of your calves but they also give calves the best opportunity to develop their immune system, reducing the chances of them getting sick when shipped.
Preweaning vaccinations
It’s recommended to vaccinate calves 4 to 6 weeks prior to weaning. This allows the calf to respond to the vaccine appropriately while on their cow, plus provides time prior to their next vaccination, which likely will occur at a backgrounder or feedlot.
Proper deworming
Calves with subclinical worm infections can have decreased feed intake, feed efficiency and poor immune response to vaccines. Using creep feed and any other form of feed- through Safe-Guard® (fenbendazole) product when calves are on pasture require relatively little time and labor, and can be highly effective.
Implants
If retaining any ownership and/or trying to get gains on calves pre and post weaning prior to selling, then giving an implant preweaning will be very beneficial.
Not only will these strategies help prepare calves for the next phase, they will result in added value at marketing. It is worth the effort to provide buyers with a signed certificate documenting products and practices used, including vaccinations, parasite control and other treatments and application dates. To learn more, contact your veterinarian and visit MAHCattle.com.
Copyright ©2020 Intervet Inc., d/b/a Merck Animal Health, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved.
Preparing for Cattle Transport Saves Time, Money and Stress
Preparing for Cattle Transport Saves Time, Money and Stress
By Jesse Fulton M.S., Director – Producer Education; National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff
With fall just around the corner, many producers should start thinking about shipping this year’s calf crop and the move of cattle to fall or winter pastures. There are several important factors that should be considered when cattle are being transported including loading conditions, time in transit, weather conditions, comingling, segregation of different sexes and weight classes into separate trailer compartments, driver experience, and animal condition.
Shipping is one of the most stressful times in a calf’s life. A past Beef Checkoff funded Beef Quality Assurance surveyindicated that feeder calves traveling to Texas or Nebraska feedyards traveled 468 ± 415 miles. The greater amounts of stress on cattle being shipped may increase the percentage of shrink loss of the animal. The stress from shipping can also have an impact on calves’ immunity and prolong the amount of time calves are off feed following shipping. With these disadvantageous effects related to stress, it is important that producers work to make the shipping process as stress free as possible.
One resource available to producers to prepare them for shipping cattle is the Beef Checkoff funded Beef Quality Assurance Transportation (BQAT) program and on-line training modules located at www.BQA.org. These modules can help producers improve shipping methods and reduce stress on cattle during the shipping period. This resource provides checklists that shippers can work through to help make shipping cattle safe for both personnel and cattle.
It is important the producer, and the industry as a whole, that cattle are humanely handled when transported. Producers should review the tools and resources available in BQAT to ensure they are following the best management practices to safely, and humanely ship cattle.
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