Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Aftermath of a Large Cattle Sale

This is what I came to work to on Thursday morning. We had about 2000 head of feeder cattle and two bull sale on Tuesday, plus several weighups, oh and some bred cows too.
The double doors lead to the ring and yes, that's a moose on the wall.

This the hallway in front of the office, door on the right.


This is the hallway to the ring, yuck!! I swept it as best as I could, I usually mop it, as it was about 10 degrees in the ring Thursday morning. The guys were welding in the ring, so we couldn't turn the heat on.



This a picture of the block, where the auctioneer sits and the block clerk, along with some others. Sorry about the ring pictures being foggy, like I said it was 10 degrees and my camera kept fogging up. I clean up there too.




This the little pickup that the guys use to haul the welder. Its small, so it is easier to get into the ring. A bull caused a little trouble in the ring and broke a few things.





Here is all the seating in the barn, there was lots of garbage to pick up. The seats came out of a movie theater.






Here are the pictures of what the barn looks like after I am all done cleaning and polishing the floors.








So shiny

















So, now you know what I do after a sale. We got snow yesterday, so it will be a mess again on Tuesday. Welcome to my world.










1 comment:

Cow Pies & Mud Pies said...

Love the pics! Looks so familiar! I am laughing at the partial pic of the diagram of how your cows are marked! Good idea...I spend every Wed explaining to someone how the cows are marked! I keep thinking I'll write it down or something and post it in the ring! You've motivated me to take a few pics of our barn and share! We've just been thru a remodel in the last year so it looks quite different now, but it did look very similar to your barn!!! Have a good week!
Leslie

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