Different pen Nos -why?

Muckit

Sold 7 heifers in the mart yesterday. Usually they'd all be put in the one pen and have the same pen number, but they were put in three different pens .... and not adjacent pens... ie 108 112 115

What's the idea behind this?? Would this be common practice in other marts?

reilig

Muckit wrote: »

Sold 7 heifers in the mart yesterday. Usually they'd all be put in the one pen and have the same pen number, but they were put in three different pens .... and not adjacent pens... ie 108 112 115

What's the idea behind this?? Would this be common practice in other marts?

Did you not pre book them and know the numbers before you brought them in? Its common practice around here.

Perhaps the numbers between yours were prebooked???

Muckit

reilig wrote: »

Did you not pre book them and know the numbers before you brought them in? Its common practice around here.

Perhaps the numbers between yours were prebooked???

You can't bring cattle in without prebooking where I bring them. But I don't think they give out the lot munbers until you arrive.

When you say it's common practice where you are, are you referring to my initial question, ie mixed pen numbers for one farmers stock?

reilig

Muckit wrote: »

You can't bring cattle in without prebooking where I bring them. But I don't think they give out the lot munbers until you arrive.

When you say it's common practice where you are, are you referring to my initial question, ie mixed pen numbers for one farmers stock?

No,

Its common practice around here to book in your cattle in a few days before the sale. On the phone they will tell you that you have (eg.) numbers 101 to 105. They always tell you what numbers you have around here. You only get mixed numbers if you don't prebook - then you bring your cattle to the mart and take whatever numbers you are given - sometimes numbers from cattle that weren't brought or other times at the end of the sale.

Black Smoke

In Ennis, you have to book your cattle in a week in advance. For the Tuesday sale, in a given week, you have to book on the Monday of the previous week.
For the Thursday sale, you book on the Wednesday of previous week.

Two or three days, after you book, you get a text, telling you your pen numbers, and telling you the latest time by which you should have your cattle in the mart on day of the sale.
Great system to be fair. It's a huge mart, and at peak times of the year, serious numbers go through on a given day. Knowing an estimated latest tome to deliver in your stock, is very helpfull, if you happen to get a pen, in latter end of the sale.

towzer2010

Muckit wrote: »

Sold 7 heifers in the mart yesterday. Usually they'd all be put in the one pen and have the same pen number, but they were put in three different pens .... and not adjacent pens... ie 108 112 115

What's the idea behind this?? Would this be common practice in other marts?

Hi Muckit

How does that system work? Are your cattle sold consecutively in that system or is it random?

Our system round here is as reilig described. You ring to book 3 days or so (depends on mart) beforehand and are given your numbers consecutively and when you bring them in they are numbered with what you were assigned. If you have 20 bullocks they will be sold consecutively and would be put into the pens in numerical order. There is no pen number in this system, just an animal number.

cow man

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