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Calf Prices 2014

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    #662
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,237 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    galwayhillbilly wrote: »
    SFP advance burning a hole in people's pockets already?
    yup these will be the same people crying that there's no money in beef


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    #663
    freedominacup
    Registered Users Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Feckthis wrote: »
    Holstein are mostly white with black. Tall and skinny.

    Really??? Good to know. I must have a lot of fresians so despite what their pedigree papers would have you believe.


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    #664
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    Feckthis wrote: »
    Holstein are mostly white with black. Tall and skinny.

    Some Ho are not skinny. In general they would have larger frames than BF's. However some can have great confirmation, biggest issue is trying to get finish on same. A few year ago I had Oct/Nov born bulls. They went to 440kg DW before you got a good level of finish 2+/3- on them. Every seconf graded R when that weight.Lighter than 400 was O=.

    Same with some HO bullocks, there one out there with a solid freckle against full white you need them over 400kg to finish. Had a few they grade O=/+ at that weight.


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    #665
    milkprofit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭milkprofit


    Good fr buls 14 days old what they worth now


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    #666
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,386 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    milkprofit wrote: »
    Good fr buls 14 days old what they worth now

    €90 to €100 out of the yard??


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    #667
    stanflt
    Registered Users Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭stanflt


    milkprofit wrote: »
    Good fr buls 14 days old what they worth now


    50-80 more like it


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    #668
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,237 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    stanflt wrote: »
    50-80 more like it
    if they are good br/fr 80 euro+ if they are not 50-70


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    #669
    stanflt
    Registered Users Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭stanflt


    18 day old light hols made 65 a piece today in carnaross

    offered them to dealer for 20 a head last week and he wouldnt take them:p


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    #670
    milkprofit
    Registered Users Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭milkprofit


    Sold 3fr bulls 14 days one small 80e yard
    1 aa hf 14days strong 200e


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    #671
    farmerjj
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    sold 6calves for
    6week old fr m €175
    4week old fr m €115
    4week old aa m €240


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    #672
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    http://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/heifer-calves/8023968
    Is this what calves are worth now?:confused:


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    #673
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,386 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    farmerjj wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/heifer-calves/8023968
    Is this what calves are worth now?:confused:

    Jaysus don't know about that


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    #674
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    farmerjj wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/heifer-calves/8023968
    Is this what calves are worth now?:confused:

    and they are heifers


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    #675
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,517 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    farmerjj wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/heifer-calves/8023968
    Is this what calves are worth now?:confused:
    Reggie. wrote: »
    Jaysus don't know about that

    Surely dairy heifers from a proven bloodline are a different market to sucks being sold for beef..


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    #676
    simx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    what would ye reckon a nice little blk lm heifer runner would make? 4 moths old, prob circa 150kg, bought her as part of a suckler team and if i could get enough for her id let her on


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    #677
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,386 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    _Brian wrote: »
    Surely dairy heifers from a proven bloodline are a different market to sucks being sold for beef..

    Well once the other lads don't get ideas for march


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    #678
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,237 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well once the other lads don't get ideas for march

    Ah them lads and their ideas ;)


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    #679
    Bullocks
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    simx wrote: »
    what would ye reckon a nice little blk lm heifer runner would make? 4 moths old, prob circa 150kg, bought her as part of a suckler team and if i could get enough for her id let her on

    Thats a tough one , but I'd say anywhere from 350/550 . If you do sell her will ya let us know the price ?


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    #680
    loveta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭loveta


    farmerjj wrote: »
    http://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/heifer-calves/8023968
    Is this what calves are worth now?:confused:

    Easy to know a done deal add costs only E3,:D


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    #681
    stanflt
    Registered Users Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭stanflt


    loveta wrote: »
    Easy to know a done deal add costs only E3,:D

    Mine are worth 1000
    Vg/ex dams
    Huge yields and solids
    And high Ebi 250 plus

    20 for sale immediately


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    #682
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    _Brian wrote: »
    Surely dairy heifers from a proven bloodline are a different market to sucks being sold for beef..

    True, but €650 for 1 to 2month old calves, that's madness..


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    #683
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,517 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    farmerjj wrote: »
    True, but €650 for 1 to 2month old calves, that's madness..

    But is it really..
    If these are good quality heifers, when they enter the dairy herd they should leave a profit of €500-800 a year for their lifetime in the herd.

    Compare that to lads paying €400-500 for the same age of beef breed suck calf to bring it to slaughter to make maybe €200 once off..

    Where is the madness in the price of sucks when you compare them like that !!


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    #684
    farmerjj
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    _Brian wrote: »
    But is it really..
    If these are good quality heifers, when they enter the dairy herd they should leave a profit of €500-800 a year for their lifetime in the herd.

    Compare that to lads paying €400-500 for the same age of beef breed suck calf to bring it to slaughter to make maybe €200 once off..

    Where is the madness in the price of sucks when you compare them like that !!

    Its the man paying 400 to 500 hundred for a month old beef calves but it still does not change the fact 650 for month old dairy calves is v expensive.


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    #685
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,386 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    _Brian wrote: »
    But is it really..
    If these are good quality heifers, when they enter the dairy herd they should leave a profit of €500-800 a year for their lifetime in the herd.

    Compare that to lads paying €400-500 for the same age of beef breed suck calf to bring it to slaughter to make maybe €200 once off..

    Where is the madness in the price of sucks when you compare them like that !!

    Now ya said it brian


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    #686
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    stanflt wrote: »
    Mine are worth 1000
    Vg/ex dams
    Huge yields and solids
    And high Ebi 250 plus

    20 for sale immediately

    Of course they are. For the most part the bull calf is worth nothing so all the value resides in the heifer calf. Generations of breeding, selection and add the cost of the straws over the generations.


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    #687
    loveta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭loveta


    stanflt wrote: »
    Mine are worth 1000
    Vg/ex dams
    Huge yields and solids
    And high Ebi 250 plus

    20 for sale immediately

    If ya get it of a lad be sure to give him a good look penny!!! :p


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    #688
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,185 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    farmerjj wrote: »
    True, but €650 for 1 to 2month old calves, that's madness..
    In fairness the are out of EX and VG dams. How many years of back breeding has gone into them.


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    #689
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Now ya said it brian

    Thats the biggest difference between nz beef farmers and irish ones.
    They won't pay for beef calves out there they know there margins


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    #690
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,237 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    last calf of the year gone fr bull 2 weeks old 75 euro, happy enough as his mother died after he was born so was bucket fed


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    #691
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    now that silly season is chilling out I will start buying a few sucks

    So what should I be expecting to pay for AAX and HEX heifer and bull calves for 10day olds off the farm


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