Friesian Heifer Calves wanted

Gman1987

Has anyone on this got friesian heifer calves for sale or will have some in the comming weeks? Prefer British Friesans but open to all. all must be suitable for future replacements. I need a good few but dont mind picking them up in small numbers. if ye have any available then please get back to me please

Tipp Man

I think we will defo be selling Heifers at some stage during the spring but we're not calving our first cow till 1st Feb so realistically it will be Paddy's day before we'd have any Fr heifers fit to sell. Need to make sure we have enough for ourselves first!!

How many would you be looking for?

Gman1987

Thanks for the reply tipp man. I'd say they are going to be hard enought source but it will have to be done. Would you reckon you would have many available? do you know of any of your neighbours who will have any available? i can PM you in a month and a halfs time to see how ye are getting on with the calving. will anyone else on here have any available?

dar31

have you read the farming indo today on calf rearing. there is a piece advising to source calves from as few places as possible.
you will bring in every disease in the country buying in dribs and drabs.

on a side note, i will have any amount of fresh calved heifers you want in a few months time

Gman1987

yeah i was reading that alright. I know that there a risk with sourcing heifers from a whole lot of different sources but i also know that im looking for 70+ calves so that is a lot of sourcing. is it freshly calved heifers you have dar31 or heifer calves?

dar31

Ger1987 wrote: »

yeah i was reading that alright. I know that there a risk with sourcing heifers from a whole lot of different sources but i also know that im looking for 70+ calves so that is a lot of sourcing. is it freshly calved heifers you have dar31 or heifer calves?

just spent the extra few quid and get the full range of test done. strongly advise not to source from four or more farms.
from another tread whealan1 seems to have brought in all sorts of problems when building up her herd, probably through no fault of her own.

they could all be very healthy calves but when they mix, is when it goes wrong.
different herd have different levels of immunity to different diseases

Gman1987

i think you would be right in saying to get tests carried out on them as you would be elimating a problem before it comes a problem

Tipp Man

Ger1987 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply tipp man. I'd say they are going to be hard enought source but it will have to be done. Would you reckon you would have many available? do you know of any of your neighbours who will have any available? i can PM you in a month and a halfs time to see how ye are getting on with the calving. will anyone else on here have any available?

Well our situation is we are calving down 90 cows and 25 heifers all in calf to a FR. The majority of the cows are in calf to AI - the heifers have been with a stock bull - a son of TIH. The bull was then left to mop up the cows at the end

Allowing for not in calf etc we should have 100+ calves so maybe 50 heifers - we will only be keeping 30 i would say. I would expect us to be selling at least 15 heifers.

Get back to me in 6-8 weeks if your still looking

Gman1987

no bothers, i will get back to you tipp man. anyone else here with calves to sell?

stanflt

i will have at least 15 heifer calves for sale by the end of april from a purebred herd. calves sired by MMU WUZ FLT IRP UPH VTH. All with ebi 100+ from a herd with 352kg milk 12.0 kg milk, 12.5 kg prot and ebi 76

also 3 bulls for sale 12-15 months old
one is a GIO from OJI 534KG MILK 13.11KG FAT AND 18.74KG PROT EBI 149
THESE BULLS ARE CURRENTLY BEING GENOMIC TESTED

mamona

I am rearing 2 lambs for the freezer and I was wondering how I would go about rearing a calf. What should I be looking for? Would I need to go about getting a herd number and how much would you buy a calf for?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.....