Recreational auctions
The weather has bit the big one all week, the garden is a rice paddy, and we were supposed to be on vacation. So we took in a couple auctions. Friday night was the livestock auction at Rogers. We have enough poultry for now (if not too much), but the prices were nice (lower than hatchery, for bigger birds). Then there were rabbits (which I'm not paying for unless my doe has a problem) and some little ruminants...4 Jersey bull calves, a few sheep and a bunch of goats. We had a number, and I asked Rusty to sit on my hand, which kept on jerking up. Some very nice prices, including an expectant La Mancha doe for $90.
Sat. was the tractor, equipment and stuff auction at Chalker's, just down the road. The weather was crappy (nice downpour in the middle of the tractor auction) and furniture was being rained on (including a grand piano with a totally delaminated top). Prices for old stuff were good: a nice Farmall cub for $850, a small Massey-Ferguson for $1500, 3 old Deeres for $2300-$2800. But none of the nice stuff made reserve (a nice little Deere with loader and backhoe, and a '99 Kubota). We didn't stick around for the equipment because we were hungry and I had a headache from breathing fumes and hearing a dozen tractors running with an auctioneer blabbing over them.
The thing for a person of my ignorance to do would be to buy new and get dealer support. But I've never bought a CAR new, and I use those a lot more than I would a tractor. And I'm really sick of indebtedness.
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