Internet Livestock Market accepts 35MM pictures and VHS, SVHS, and VHSC tapes of your consignments. (No Polaroid's) We recommend both video tapes and 35MM color pictures. Be sure and shoot a good representative sample of the cattle you are offering for sale. Buyers do "not" want suprises on Delivery Day!

Completing the Consignment Forms

DO NOT MISREPRESENT

YOU

weaned

yearlings

prior to auction sale date or prior to listing them for private treaty sale. Follow the information below when describing your consignments:

Weight variance:

EVEN-This means that there is less than 150 pounds variation in weight from the light to the heavy end on YEARLING Cattle. On CALVES and CALF WEIGHT YEARLINGS the variation is less than 100 pounds!
UNEVEN-This means on yearling cattle the weight variance is between 150 and 200 pounds. Most loads of feeder cattle are in this category. On calves and calf weight cattle the variation is 100 to 150 pounds.
VERY UNEVEN-Yearling Cattle the weight variance is over 250 pounds! On calves and calf weight yearlings the weight variance is over 150 pounds!
FRAME: Large Frame - Cattle that are mostly exotic breeding and are slightly tall and longer bodied for their age. They will carry a lot of bone and would expect to reach desirable market
weight at 1200 pounds +.
MEDIUM FRAME - These cattle are of mostly English breeding. They should be slightly tall and long bodied. These cattle should be expected to produce a choice carcass at a live weight of 1000-1200 pounds.
SMALL FRAME - Cattle of mostly English breeding. They should be shorter bodied and not as tall as med. Frame cattle. These cattle would produce a choice carcass at a live weight of 1000 pounds.

AGE FOR WEIGHT:

SHORT AGE - We do not use short age on yearling cattle! Short Age will be used on calves only! It would be a calf that has had an excellent home, in fleshy condition, and would still be on his mother. If a calf has been weaned for 30-45 days, then he would be listed as a weaned medium age calf.
MEDIUM AGE - This is a calf that has had an average home since birth, He has NOT been starved, but he has NOT had above average growing conditions.
LONG AGE - This is a calf that has had very poor growing conditions sometime in his life! This would be an animal that is over 18-20 months of age when going into a feedlot.

FLESH CONDITIONS:

DEAD POOR: Do not try and sell these kind. BUY FEED !
THIN - These would be lightly fleshed due to possible poor pasture conditions.
LIGHT MEDIUM - This is an animal in IDEAL stocker flesh. These cattle would be strong and healthy and be carrying very little fat.
MEDIUM - This has a very wide variance depending on the season. This would be what we call average for the season.
HEAVY MEDIUM - These are cattle that are carrying a lot of flesh. . They would be carrying above average flesh for the season.

BREED & COLOR:

Describe the cattle and their genetic make-up as accurately as possible. If you have 10 % Black hided cattle---then come delivery day

HAVE 10 % BLACK HIDED CATTLE!! YOU CAN HAVE ONLY A 5% VARIANCE IN COLOR DESCRIPTION OF YOUR CATTLE!

CALVES & YEARLINGS {FEEDER CATTLE}

All Cattle Sold by the Pound on INTERNET LIVESTOCK MARKET
will sell with an UP SLIDE !

Example:	SELLING DATE	DELIVERY DATE 500 # Base Wt. Cattle Ave. Wt. = 540 #
	3% Shrink	less 3% Shrink = -16 #
	10 cents Up Slide	Net Pay Wt. = 524 #
	.70 Cents @ lb. Selling Price	Base Wt. + 10 # Variance = 510 # Pounds Over Base Weight = 14 Pounds

Calculate Slide: 14 Pounds X .10 (cents) = $1.40
Selling Price @ .70 (cents) Less $1.40 = $68.60 Actual Selling Price NOTE: In this example selling a 500 # calf {less 3% shrink} 485# X .70 = $339.50
540 # calf {less 3% shrink} 524# X 68.60= $359.46
You gain $19.96 @ head with a 10 cent slide and selling heavier calves!!

Acceptable Slides Feeder Cattle (calves & yearlings)

Steers 700 # and up .04-.05 cents 500-600 # .06-.08 cents
an
Heifers 600-700 # .05-.07 cents 300-500 # .10 cents

COMMERCIAL BRED STOCK

Acceptable Slides:

On delivery day the cows weight 980 pounds. { With 10 # variance the base weight on the cows is 990 # { 1000 # less 10 # Variance = adjusted base weight of 990 #} The draft of cows average 10 pounds less than the base weight. Slide is .80 cents. Cows adjusted selling price is $600 less {10 # X .80 = -$8.00 @ head}
Cows after slide adjustment will deliver for $792.00 @ head.

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with describing your cattle.
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