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related that the Barnes family sold relatively few male sheep
necessitating their purchase of a breeding value certificate from
one of the partnerships. He estimated that they sold only a
total of 10 to 15 such rams over the years. He further claimed
that these 10 to 15 rams ultimately may have been sold by the
Barnes family to various third parties for prices ranging from
$500 to $1,000.31
31Randy testified, on cross-examination, as follows:
Q. All right. And what happened to the lambs that came
from the partnership? What did Barnes Ranch do with those lambs?
A. Well, the partnership lambs that came back, there were--
many of them would be ewe lambs and many of them would be ram
lambs or wethers. The wethers, of course, would be sold for
market. The ram lambs, if there were ram lambs deemed of value
to do something else with, we would have to contact the
partnerships, because they actually had control of the breeding
value or the--we didn't get any paperwork with those rams.
So if there were some rams that we wanted to do something
with, we'd have to refer back to them. The ewe lambs we would
keep or sell for market. The poor ones would be sold for market,
the better ones maybe kept back and used for the 10 percent
increase or the replacements in the sharecrop agreement.
Q. So I don't--I guess I'm not sure whether I understand
what happened to the ram lambs. You said that you had to contact
the partnerships because they had some control over them?
A. They had control of the breeding value certificates.
Q. Okay.
A. So if we wanted to market any of those rams we would
have to contact them for breeding value certificates. If not, if
we were to castrate them we would either sell them to 4-H'ers as
wether lambs for shows and a lot of those lambs would come in top
dollar. Some of the lambs would be shipped to a feedlot or
possibly just put out on pasture until they were ready for
slaughter.
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