Beef Bull Value

reps4

question,

have the option of buying a 09 limousin bull off a guy that is finished with him serving heifers.
he is approx 800-850 kgs. what kind of money would he be worth in the sales ring for factory agents/finishers.
he told me he wants beef price without actually naming it. was thinking 1750ish. is this too low as i dont want to be insulting him!

thanks

Bizzum

reps4 wrote: »

question,

have the option of buying a 09 limousin bull off a guy that is finished with him serving heifers.
he is approx 800-850 kgs. what kind of money would he be worth in the sales ring for factory agents/finishers.
he told me he wants beef price without actually naming it. was thinking 1750ish. is this too low as i dont want to be insulting him!

thanks

We killed a bull lately, he came into 570kgs dead, U2, around €1700. He was a 32mths old.

bob charles

reps4 wrote: »

question,

have the option of buying a 09 limousin bull off a guy that is finished with him serving heifers.
he is approx 800-850 kgs. what kind of money would he be worth in the sales ring for factory agents/finishers.
he told me he wants beef price without actually naming it. was thinking 1750ish. is this too low as i dont want to be insulting him!

thanks

It will be a quick learning curve for you if you give 1750 for an 800 kg bull unless he is an exceptional one. beef price would be somewhere between 2.50 and 3.00 per kilo deadweight.

Muckit

bob charles wrote: »

It will be a quick learning curve for you if you give 1750 for an 800 kg bull unless he is an exceptional one. beef price would be somewhere between 2.50 and 3.00 per kilo deadweight.

€13-1400 is his money so?

bob charles

Muckit wrote: »

€13-1400 is his money so?

it could be, but it could also up to €1700, all depends on the quality and your talking a serious bull for that, not your normal boyo. There are limo/char bulls only R's and bulls E's makes a huge difference on kill out

whelan1

got 2k off a lad for a 6 year old bull last year he made over 1700 in factory a few weeks later as he turned wicked

moy83

whelan1 wrote: »

got 2k off a lad for a 6 year old bull last year he made over 1700 in factory a few weeks later as he turned wicked

Did he look for 300 back ? What happened in the few weeks to turn him wicked ?
I bought a heifer off a lad last year , I walked in around the pen when I was looking at her and she was grand and quiet . He dropped her back to me and we let her into the slats where she went cracked and never settled down since . Dont know why and neither does he .

whelan1

he was fine with us but tbh he wasnt set up for a bull, bull was used to our set up, he didnt look for the 300 back- could actually have been closer to 1800 he made was a smashing bull an aa-, we collected the bull and brought him to factory for him... he was happy enough, keep meaning to drop a voucher over to him for somewhere

moy83

whelan1 wrote: »

he was fine with us but tbh he wasnt set up for a bull, bull was used to our set up, he didnt look for the 300 back- could actually have been closer to 1800 he made was a smashing bull an aa-, we collected the bull and brought him to factory for him... he was happy enough, keep meaning to drop a voucher over to him for somewhere

A voucher for a good beef dinner !

49801

moy83 wrote: »

Did he look for 300 back ? What happened in the few weeks to turn him wicked ?
I bought a heifer off a lad last year , I walked in around the pen when I was looking at her and she was grand and quiet . He dropped her back to me and we let her into the slats where she went cracked and never settled down since . Dont know why and neither does he .

One nugget of advice I got about buying a bull is to move him yourself from pen to pen when your viewing him in the sellers yard before you do the deal. Many bulls will be quite happy when you walk into the pen they have been settled in for a few weeks. Their humour could be very different with a new environment and handler.

moy83

49801 wrote: »

One nugget of advice I got about buying a bull is to move him yourself from pen to pen when your viewing him in the sellers yard before you do the deal. Many bulls will be quite happy when you walk into the pen they have been settled in for a few weeks. Their humour could be very different with a new environment and handler.

Makes sense alright