@scotchfrost9697 tell me if you'd be pissed in this scenario...
Had 160 steers and heifers consigned to kimball livestock in SoDak this past week. The one owner said feed and water pens would be full so send them Monday evening (Tuesday sale) and he'd pull the lead consignment from a pen a with hay and water, then put mine in it at 8-9 am. I had both trucks weigh when they left the feed yard, 782 average, steers and heifers mixed.
I call Tuesday evening to see how they sold, my top end of steers weighed 773 in the ring. (shouldve been more like 810-820) top end of the heifers 696 (should've been 725 easy). I finally got the one owner on the line and basically just said wtf? He said its nothing knew for people to over estimate what their cattle weighed and was treating me like an idiot. I said dude, I know we dont know each other, but I ship cattle every month of the year and nothing shrinks 10% unless they aren't put on feed and water for 24 hrs, it was a 120 mile haul, fuck our 1450 pound fat heiferettes havent been shrinking 6% on a 1300 mile haul to fernley Nevada!(I then asked him if he'd care to argue over state certified weight tickets when they left the feedyard) and he instantly started singing a different tune. Well come to find out it was the other owner that fucked up, he personally put them in the pen behind the chute then never told anyone to move them in the morning.
I'm not terribly pissed because the steers at 773, brought 1.5250. But my point was theres no way in knowing that they wouldn't have brought 1.50 if they weighed 800. That's $22 a head. Same goes for the heifers that were 696 at 1.39.
They haven't offered any break on commission or anything. I did make it clear if theres a fucking feed and yardage charge taken out of the check I'll be driving 400 miles to kimball and knocking his teeth out(I said it politely as possible).
Am I overreacting?