I'm retired from cattle now, however, throughout my cattle business years, mother cows had a job to do to stay in "the line up". They had to give me a live, healthy calf and take care of them (mother them and defend them).
Anything short of this and they went down the line into a freezer. This is often referred to as ruthless culling.

went to a sale this week as thin as lot of animals were think a lot of people are backing off on high price feed to a lot of people dont know their just hurting them selves

Xactly