Ideal weight to sell continental X bull weanlings

just do it

So folks what weight do you think?

valtra2

380kg or over for jan feb early march, that is what i am hoping, selling in oct, hope to have all over 400

1chippy

430 kilos. finishers can give them that one big push for the bull beef. or if your in leg waxs situation anywhere between 320-380kg.

Dampintheattic

valtra2 wrote: »

380kg or over for jan feb early march, that is what i am hoping, selling in oct, hope to have all over 400

That's damn good weights, for say average Feb born calves, by October.
Fair play.

bob charles

1chippy wrote: »

430 kilos. finishers can give them that one big push for the bull beef. or if your in leg waxs situation anywhere between 320-380kg.

Would finishers up your parts be buying them that light. You would be looking at a bull for a long time starting off at 430kgs. Bought a few bulls at weanling sales over the last week, heavy calves price is fair with the light calves expensive imv

bob charles

Dampintheattic wrote: »

That's damn good weights, for say average Feb born calves, by October.
Fair play.

I killed a 10 month old going by card :rolleyes: earlier in the week at 330kilos deadweight. he was doing over 2kgs liveweight a day while I had him. I only bought him a while back so he could be a bit older:rolleyes:

valtra2

Dampintheattic wrote: »

That's damn good weights, for say average Feb born calves, by October.
Fair play.

they dont all make the 400 last year only 50% did, this year hoping for bettermaybe 75 to 80%,
have heard of some of them calfs that hide in the bushes bob and are not found for a few months, by why would you do that only get a bad name and everyone knows, and what about records, and still have to feed them

Damo810

valtra2 wrote: »

380kg or over for jan feb early march, that is what i am hoping, selling in oct, hope to have all over 400

At 400, if you take a birth weight of 40Kg, a Feb born calf is gaining roughly 1.5Kg per day. Tidy numbers. What breeds were they?

valtra2

Damo810 wrote: »

At 400, if you take a birth weight of 40Kg, a Feb born calf is gaining roughly 1.5Kg per day. Tidy numbers. What breeds were they?

cows are limx and hex from british fr, lim bull

1chippy

bob charles wrote: »

Would finishers up your parts be buying them that light. You would be looking at a bull for a long time starting off at 430kgs. Bought a few bulls at weanling sales over the last week, heavy calves price is fair with the light calves expensive imv

Thats what the majority seem to be chasing anyway. talked to a few lads that were at that game around here and they were saying they would rarely buy lighter unless they were real value. The heifer buyers seem to be in two groups. the lads going for 450-500 kilo mark and the others just buying lighter animals at 300-350.

just do it

Ultimately depends on what market the meat factories your local mart buyers are supplying. Lad from Dawn Meats at a presentation 2 years ago in Ennis mart was saying their buyers want bulls less than 15-16mo if I remember correctly. I can't remember the carcase deadweight he mentioned but at a guess it was no bigger than 350kg. Blue5000 took notes on the night and might remember better.