 Wiggins, I work with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and I wanted to talk a little bit today about handling these heifers that we plan to market, whether it's in an organized sale or marketing them off default. There's a lot of videos and information out there regarding handling cattle and actually moving cattle. In those videos you'll hear the terms of flat zone, pressure release, point of balance. You know those are all important things to know when it comes to actually moving cattle but I wanted to talk more about actually how we handle these cattle or manage these cattle leading up to a sale. So one of the biggest things I would recommend doing in preparing heifers for a sale is to actually spend time around these heifers. Spending time around them allows them to get used to people being around them. A lot of instances that have calmed some of these animals down. You know and once they get used to you walking through them and get accustomed to you being there it's sometimes a good idea to bring somebody else with you just so that they get more accustomed to multiple people being around. Spending that time there also allows you to identify some of those animals that maybe are not going to settle down or maybe they are a little more nervous and skittish. You know those may be some animals that you may not want to foot through the sale. Of course knowing your customers, knowing the kind of animals that they want, that may not be an issue. You know there's some that are accustomed to having those kind of cattle that are a little more skittish or nervous and they're okay with that but there's a lot more producers today that docility is one of those traits that they're looking for in the cattle and being around them more can make them more docile and is in a marketing tool for you to take advantage of. It also allows you to identify some of those animals that maybe are too aggressive. We don't need to be marketing animals that are too aggressive and it's going to get someone hurt so if you can identify those animals you know it's something you probably want to call from the herd but you really don't want to be sending those to somebody else's place that could possibly cause them harm. So another thing to consider when marketing these heifers is their cabin dates. Depending on if you're marketing these animals off the farm or if you're taking them to a organized sale that can influence what animals you may want to take to the sale as well. If their cabin date falls right on top of a sale date you know those animals may not want to you may not want to send to the market you know that it's already a stressful time when you're trying to catch these animals up put them on a trailer take them to a sale barn so those animals that that fall on that sale date or their cabin date calls for that that sale date you may want to look at either keeping those animals or marketing those animals at an earlier time in their pregnancy to avoid possible possible problems out of sale. One thing to keep in mind when you're marketing heifers and especially if you're marketing heifers off the farm is to have a facility where you can actually show those heifers to two potential buyers. If you see here we've got multiple pens and that we could bring the heifers up in we've got an elevated platform here that allows potential buyers to get up a little bit above the heifers and it gives them opportunity to get a good view of the heifers. So they can then look at things like their feet and other structural sound this attributes from the heifers.