Consignments need to be there by 2 and livestock before 3 on Sat. if you want it advertised on Facebook. We take consignments till 3 and livestock till or after until the sale is over.

If you are planning on bringing stock let us know so we can advertise it on the web page as coming and maybe we can get some extra buyers for your livestock ...but we post everything on the web page by noon Fri. so get that info to us by then.  Help yourself by letting us advertise what you are bringing. Pictures are posted on Facebook after livestock is received Fri. night or Sat. morning.

We are getting lots of new people every sale and we do appreciate everyone.  We thank you for spreading the word about our sale.  Thank you for marketing you animals with us and for buying  some of your replacement animals at our sale.

Come join us as we start our 14th year of helping you market your livestock.

A tidbit of information I ran into at the fair.  Not sure we are going to like it.  But come about April 2020 we will probably be using RFID tags on all sheep and goats.  They are expensive and will be time consuming to keep all the information.  Now we don’t know if like scrapie tags we will have to keep references to just the ones we tag like now or all animals that go thru the sale barn.  USDA is making the rules right now- heaven help us all.  Another program to help us and going to cost $$ to do.

https://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=184048&cat_id=103#product-information-reviews.  Here is a web site that lists RFID tags.  Price about $1 for tags then it takes an applicator $17 or $42 and reader.  And if we have to have a reader to log all tags that come in, that is going to get costly. $1299 or $2099.  These are not accepted for scrapie tags currently but watch for information about this program- supposed to be in place about Apr 2020

Also remember in wet weather the parasites are more problems.  Stay on top of it.  Do not feed on the ground and rotate pastures if you can. Goats can look fine one day, be droopy the next, and dead the next if you don’t get them treated. Or they can gradually lose weight and have scours.  If they hang their head and tail check them out or if they are  coughing a lot.   Don’t let parasites rob you of profits. See issues pages  I have had 2 people come in lately that said they lost a bunch to parasites early.  If it’s wet watch for parasites.  And if they hit don’t just worm once do it every 5-7 days for 3 or 4 times to clean them up. Wormy or sick goats don’t bring much money and dead ones sure don’t.  Watch them closely in wet weather.

We get extra Goat and Sheep magazine and Ranch and Rural Living magazines and you are welcome to pick up either one or both. They have some really good articles.  We lay these out on the tables and you can take one if you like.

 B’s restaurant and Econo Lodge are closed due to a fire.   If you want fine dining we suggest heading to Davenport 6 miles E on Rt 66 and dine at Dan’s BBQ, Tammy’s Route 66 or Scotty B’s.  We highly recommend all 3 of those restaurant.  Also we have Lincoln Motel in Chandler for lodging.