What the hell did they think the auction was for in the first place?
Our family visited relatives that had a ranch and the kids loved sitting on the pet calf called “Norman”. (Born during the Iraq war, “Stormin’ Norman”.) Norman hung out at the house where the wife took care of him while the “real” cattle were out on the range.
We visited again a year or two later and got in late. While eating a late dinner of hamburgers one of our little girls (6 years?) asked if they could go out and “ride” Norman again.
The hostess said “I’m afraid not - the hamburgers you are eating are Norman.
Being city kids and little I thought they were going to cry and get upset.
The daughter that asked looked down at her plate and said “Well - he sure tastes good!” and took another bite.
Maybe they thought it was a ‘Beauty Contest’?..................😜
Getting tasty vitals. I would no longer roast a whole one but have in the past. Good meat!
Sometimes they are auctioned for breeder stock.