Knackery charges

mahoney_j

Had a second calver kick the bucket yesterday,Phoned the local knackery to come and take her away and jaw nearly fell off when i had to write a cheque for 100 bucks.Sounds excessive??and to make things worse she was a 190 odd ebi cow in calf to axn ai bull.now down a 1700 euro cow and her calf,As the saying goes where you have livestock you got deadstock!!First dead ainmal excluding 2 dead calves in 3 years so not too bad

Conor556

Had a cow go down new years day, €50 to put her down and taken away

delaval

Really good going to have that low mortality............attention to detail

td5man

delaval wrote: »

Really good going to have that low mortality............attention to detail

Thats why they charged so much,probably be another three years before they see the next £100.
Sent a cow to the knackery about a month ago €35.

bob charles

I had bloody 3 dead today, unfortunately I get a bulk discount from my knacker:D. Under 4 years is much dearer as the government arent subsidising the removal. All over 4's are still being BSE tested and gov carrying 50% of the cost.

Removal of dead animals is a serious cost of production in Ireland that other countries dont have to met. I spend at least a few thousand each year on knacker fees while in US, Canada, NZ they are just buried out the back.

whelan1

was 80 euro for a second calver that i had that did the splits a week or 2 ago, 25 euro for a calf that was born dead the day after, if it had been the same day i would have had to pay for the calf iykwim.

freedominacup

bob charles wrote: »

I had bloody 3 dead today, unfortunately I get a bulk discount from my knacker:D. Under 4 years is much dearer as the government arent subsidising the removal. All over 4's are still being BSE tested and gov carrying 50% of the cost.

Removal of dead animals is a serious cost of production in Ireland that other countries dont have to met. I spend at least a few thousand each year on knacker fees while in US, Canada, NZ they are just buried out the back.

The bulk of which end up in Mr Goodmans pocket.

Cavanjack

freedominacup wrote: »

The bulk of which end up in Mr Goodmans pocket.

I think bob is Mr Goodman the amount of stock he must have!

freedominacup

Cavanjack wrote: »

I think bob is Mr Goodman the amount of stock he must have!

:D:D

KatyMac

Was talking to a neighbour last night and he told me he'd lost a mountain ram to pneumonia! I know the place is awful wet, but if mountain sheep are kicking the bucket there's not much hope for the rest.

ootbitb

bob charles wrote: »

I had bloody 3 dead today, unfortunately I get a bulk discount from my knacker:D. Under 4 years is much dearer as the government arent subsidising the removal. All over 4's are still being BSE tested and gov carrying 50% of the cost.

Removal of dead animals is a serious cost of production in Ireland that other countries dont have to met. I spend at least a few thousand each year on knacker fees while in US, Canada, NZ they are just buried out the back.

Same as we used to do of course. Seems quite natural to bury the dead.

What was the issue anyway?

td5man

ootbitb wrote: »

Same as we used to do of course. Seems quite natural to bury the dead.

What was the issue anyway?

I used to be kept busy when i started with the diggers, though some of them could have been dead for a while, you needed a good stomach for it.

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

I used to be kept busy when i started with the diggers, though some of them could have been dead for a while, you needed a good stomach for it.

its a bit like taking cleanings with a hangover:D

dzer2

whelan1 wrote: »

its a bit like taking cleanings with a hangover:D

Where the hell do you get time to invest in a hangover

td5man

dzer2 wrote: »

Where the hell do you get time to invest in a hangover

Dont get her started about being organised

td5man

dzer2 wrote: »

Where the hell do you get time to invest in a hangover

Had a cow that had to get a teat off due to another standing on it,anyway the quarter swelled up and it let go yesterday evening now that was a smell 10 y.o. nearly vomitted.

whelan1

td5man wrote: »

Had a cow that had to get a teat off due to another standing on it,anyway the quarter swelled up and it let go yesterday evening now that was a smell 10 y.o. nearly vomitted.

thanks for that, just eating my dinner

bob charles

td5man wrote: »

Had a cow that had to get a teat off due to another standing on it,anyway the quarter swelled up and it let go yesterday evening now that was a smell 10 y.o. nearly vomitted.

regularly cut off teats, no sooner done and the dogs jump in the chute to drink the lovely custard

freedominacup

bob charles wrote: »

regularly cut off teats, no sooner done and the dogs jump in the chute to drink the lovely custard

F' ya Bob I'm trying to eat here:eek:

td5man

bob charles wrote: »

regularly cut off teats, no sooner done and the dogs jump in the chute to drink the lovely custard

Our dog prefers to clean up after scouring calves

bob charles

freedominacup wrote: »

F' ya Bob I'm trying to eat here:eek:

Man up for Fook sake. Im off to get some meat for my pups :rolleyes:

1chippy

Had a caesarian go wrong years back, really warm weather loads of flies and had to reopen the cut and clean out every evening. now that was an experience.

Cavanjack

While we're on the subject, we took a calf out of a heifer in about 20 pieces a few years ago. The vet reckoned it was dead for a month. Didn't have much for dinner that day.

yellow50HX

Cavanjack wrote: »

While we're on the subject, we took a calf out of a heifer in about 20 pieces a few years ago. The vet reckoned it was dead for a month. Didn't have much for dinner that day.

Yipp had to do the same a few years back. It ended up with missus finishing off the job as first the uncle (his cow) then my ol lad and then me all faile it finish the job. Herself was laughing at the 3 of us bent over puking in the yard. She wasn't too far behind us by the end of it.

Timmaay

Ah lads, ugh, don't need to be thinking about all that, I'd say we've all been through it at some stage, in my case it was a sheep who had one lamb, we never spotted the 2nd lamb (which was dead) until afew days later still inside her....I think that was the final nail in the coffin for sheep for me ha!

On the knackery cost, send away a 12yr old few wks back, 55euros, as bob sad though, anything under 4yrs they totally sting ya!

delaval wrote: »

Really good going to have that low mortality............attention to detail

Yeh definitely alot down the attention to detail, basically all stems from your attitude and commitment to the farm I think, yards/housing setup so as animals have a very low risk of slipping on, when a mortality happens its up to you to ask why it happened and try to avoid it in the future, say a calf dies from scour, you can either say sh"t happens and forget about it until the next case, or say get the scour tested and try to get to the bottom of it to avoid further deaths. I'm certainly lacking enough attention to detail yet (two cows and two calves gone this yr :rolleyes:) ,but all in good time hopefully!