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barley beef

  • 31-03-2010 8:55pm
    #1
    charityboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭


    was wondering has anybody come across a farming system of fattening fresian bull calves on a diet of rolled barley and barley straw by 12 months of age


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  • #2
    powerfarmer
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    Just this evening i heard about a local guy,cattle haulier/dealer who does something like that, the story was that he fed straw and meal only. Fatten them up to 16 months of age and had 360 euro clear profit a head.
    But it was a second hand story so how true it is...........I'll try find out more about it.


  • #3
    pakalasa
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    The Farmers Journal had a story on this a few weeks back.


  • #4
    JohnBoy
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    I know a guy who did it once on contract for one of the factories, beef was for mcdonalds, he had a very specified system, they pretty much gave you a week by week plan and at the end a guaranteed price.

    Dont think he was clearing anything like 360 a head on it though. there was a definite margin, and if you ran the system right it was pretty guaranteed too, but he had a lot of trouble with the bulls fighting, dunno if it was the way he was running things or what but he lost 2 bulls in the shed, basically beaten up by the others.


  • #5
    charityboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭charityboy


    powerfarmer wrote: »
    Just this evening i heard about a local guy,cattle haulier/dealer who does something like that, the story was that he fed straw and meal only. Fatten them up to 16 months of age and had 360 euro clear profit a head.
    But it was a second hand story so how true it is...........I'll try find out more about it.
    thanks powerfarmer have an empty shed looking in to ways of turning a few euro out of it


  • #6
    charityboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭charityboy


    JohnBoy wrote: »
    I know a guy who did it once on contract for one of the factories, beef was for mcdonalds, he had a very specified system, they pretty much gave you a week by week plan and at the end a guaranteed price.

    Dont think he was clearing anything like 360 a head on it though. there was a definite margin, and if you ran the system right it was pretty guaranteed too, but he had a lot of trouble with the bulls fighting, dunno if it was the way he was running things or what but he lost 2 bulls in the shed, basically beaten up by the others.
    that can be a problem with keeping bulls


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  • #7
    kfk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 546 ✭✭✭kfk


    Ive heard that feeding cattle lots of barley can become more aggressive! Is there any truth in this?


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