transporting cows and calves to mart

max12

have 2 cows and calves to bring to mart. calves are 3 months old and good and strong. is it still safe to bring them in a 12 foot ivor Williams trailer to mart or would I risk injuring them

Willfarman

They’d have plenty of room. I’d bring them on.

grassroot1

Divide them how much would you get for a calf with a broken leg?
Can you borrow a dividing gate

patsy_mccabe

Depends on the cows. I've seen cows batter the sh1te out of other cows calves when they get agitated in a trailer.

Muckit

You can over think these things. We all do it but rare things are rare. There will b no loss on them. Load the calves first and follow them up with the cows.

Dunedin

Muckit wrote: »

You can over think these things. We all do it but rare things are rare. There will b no loss on them. Load the calves first and follow them up with the cows.

And make sure you keep moving once there’re loaded, no stopping for a chat and they pucking the sh1te out of each other in the trailer

max12

which would be best to sell in the ring - both together as in the two heifers and both calves in the ring at the same time or singles as in one heifer and calf at a time?

both mothers are very evenly matched - breed age etc and calves are identical out of same AI bull

Lady Haywire

Singles, I've never seen sucklers sold as doubles.