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  • #2
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Not alone that, each of us who go into a shop to buy a carton of milk (that's probably most of us these days) should ask ourselves if we are happy to buy milk at the current retail price, if this is the consequence.

    Isn't it sad to think that the calf a cow has to provide us with milk isn't even worth the price of a pint of milk? :(

    Alot to be said for the dual breed. And the dairies paying a respectable price per gallon to the primary producer. It'd indirectly help the beef sector also.


  • #3
    jeff greene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 733 ✭✭✭jeff greene


    In fairness to that lad with the Jersey calves, it would have been more profitable to shoot them at birth that do what he did, so fair play to him. I know I would do the same.

    Thats the direction dairy farming is being pushed in Ireland but I know many aren’t going to bite. Say what they want calf sales are important, if only for cash flow, I sold Holstein bull calves for €90-€180 this spring, oldest was only 3 weeks. Also what will the cow be worth at the end. A decent hol/bf cow make good money at the end.


  • #4
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    i really dont get the whole jersey thing at all, it is a waste of a good calf. are the jersey cows all they are cracked up to be if their male offspring are worthless.


  • #5
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Here's a guy 4 days ago looking to buy Jersey Bull Calves...
    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/livestock/1932566


    I've only heard of them being shot and saw 6 shot in the same day on a farm back in the 90's..

    What would that guy be hoping to do with the Jerseys??

    Apparently there was a Jersey X yearling sold in Ballybay recently and only a €100 was bid on it.. I didn't see this only heard second hand..


  • #6
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    surely if you paid 3 times that he would still come into somethinmg at the end of it


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  • #7
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Lads, probably a stupid question but, why are they so useless? Would they not even get a few bob from the factory? No experience with either. EDIT, just copped on, and that was a stupid question


  • #8
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bbam wrote: »
    What would that guy be hoping to do with the Jerseys??

    Well in England they use skin em and feed them to bloodhounds


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