Wicklow Cattle Company

saranac1

Has anyone any experience from buying freisin bulls from this crowd. Im looking to buy 20/30 british freisin bulls asap about 6 mths old.

Anyone have any suggestions!

Based in meath

nashmach

Know a few who did - went to the yard selected their ones and that was it.

Relatively clean way of doing it.

Sam Kade

Friesian bulls around that age are poor sellers at the moment. How much are they looking for them?

mf240

I know of two people that dealt with Wicklow. And both said he was sound.

Sharpshooter82

mf240 wrote: »

I know of two people that dealt with Wicklow. And both said he was sound.

Went to an open day there about two years ago. Savage setup

renandstimpy

rang him one time was looking at buying 12-15 simmental calfs to rear as cows .. asked him roughly what he was talking price wise and he would not tell me ...told me to come to yard , after explaining to him that i was serious and in mayo he still would not give me any price indication .
Now i wasnt looking for something for nothing i would have giving more than the going rate if they were what i wanted .needless to say i never went up .

6480

he calls around this area every few weeks picking up bull calves , to be fair to him he pays good money for good calves ,

Burtonearny

Bought 21 of the german simmentals from them last year, rang a couple of days after when one of them was a bit sick and was quick to offer advice on how to treat the calf.... he made sure to ring back a few days later to make sure the calf was doing alright as well, not many sellers would do that. They won't give stock away but they won't waste your time either..

bob charles

Burtonearny wrote: »

Bought 21 of the german simmentals from them

:rolleyes: even the worst of Irish dealers, only sell Irish calves

lefthooker

Bought a batch of friesian heifers from WWC. He's a straight talker and no crap and regularly calls in to see how the stock are getting on when in the area. Also has great advice on calf rearing

J DEERE

Burtonearny wrote: »

Bought 21 of the german simmentals from them last year, rang a couple of days after when one of them was a bit sick and was quick to offer advice on how to treat the calf.... he made sure to ring back a few days later to make sure the calf was doing alright as well, not many sellers would do that. They won't give stock away but they won't waste your time either..

how are the Simmentals going for ya? Have they Friesian breeding in them or are they fairly square? What money were they asking?

bob charles

J DEERE wrote: »

how are the Simmentals going for ya? Have they Friesian breeding in them or are they fairly square? What money were they asking?

I wonder what we as farmers will be paying for these animals in the next 5 - 20 years.

Sam Kade

J DEERE wrote: »

how are the Simmentals going for ya? Have they Friesian breeding in them or are they fairly square? What money were they asking?

Whatever he charges for stock won't be revealed on this thread but from what I can gather you will be paying over the odds.

Richk2012

J DEERE wrote: »

how are the Simmentals going for ya? Have they Friesian breeding in them or are they fairly square? What money were they asking?

If they're the same simmentals that im thinking of , there meant to be PBNR German Simmentals...
They,re not cheap .

charityboy

bob charles wrote: »

I wonder what we as farmers will be paying for these animals in the next 5 - 20 years.

Probably not as much as was given for them on day one

moy83

bob charles wrote: »

I wonder what we as farmers will be paying for these animals in the next 5 - 20 years.

I wouldn't buy one myself , but how long had they them up in lairage and what kind of diseases must they be checked for before being let into the country ?

TUBBY

so bealragh farms have a boards account anyway:)

Sharpshooter82

farmers101 wrote: »

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Have they got calves

farmers101

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Have they got calves

I'm not to sure if they sell calves, but if you call them and have a chat they will tell you or advise you what you could do with your budget.

bob charles

charityboy wrote: »

Probably not as much as was given for them on day one

And the cost of Johnes, BVD are insignificant costs nowadays.

lefthooker

farmers101 wrote: »

I'm not to sure if they sell calves, but if you call them and have a chat they will tell you or advise you what you could do with your budget.

Would have thought this was the common sense thing to do

J DEERE

bob charles wrote: »

I wonder what we as farmers will be paying for these animals in the next 5 - 20 years.

Im aware of the long term consequences of importing stock. We have had our fair share of losses and hardship through the years with BVD and the likes.

Just curious as to how these animals weigh up when compared to Irish bred beef females - just say the cost of getting them to mating, weight gain , fertility and milk. There would have to be a very substantial difference between the two before I would choose imported females over Irish bred

onyerbikepat

farmers101 wrote: »

.....I then bought 35 weanlings of bealragh farm in Roscommon..... the lads at bealragh farms...... and i am going down to roscommon to buy 35 more this year from these lads in bealragh farms.....I would advise, these lads are providing high standards of weanlings at good price.

Sorry but it's farmers you are dealing with here. We're trained from an early age how to spot a chancer.

Bodacious

onyerbikepat wrote: »

Sorry but it's farmers you are dealing with here. We're trained from an early age how to spot a chancer.

e500 he ( Wicklow ) asked me for a imported sim heifer drop calf

renandstimpy

Bodacious wrote: »

e500 he ( Wicklow ) asked me for a imported sim heifer drop calf

:eek:

bob charles

I wonder how many German/Romanian calves die on the way home?:mad: with all the importers of calves

moy83

bob charles wrote: »

I wonder how many German/Romanian calves die on the way home?:mad: with all the importers of calves

I'd expect a good few , I wonder whats the youngest they are allowed to be shipped out at ?

Sharpshooter82

moy83 wrote: »

I'd expect a good few , I wonder whats the youngest they are allowed to be shipped out at ?

We got some Romanian calves 2 years ago and I think they were about 4 weeks old

moy83

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

We got some Romanian calves 2 years ago and I think they were about 4 weeks old

Did you keep them for breeding or selling on ? Are they milking the simmental back there or why are they selling the calves so young

Sharpshooter82

moy83 wrote: »

Did you keep them for breeding or selling on ? Are they milking the simmental back there or why are they selling the calves so young

I think the FIL got a batch of about 60 then and currently 30 are in calf to a lim bull and the rest are for fattening with 10 to go shortly. Don't know much about them as had nothing to do with the deal was just told one night to call down to the yard at 11pm and here was a truck ready to be unloaded

saranac1

Does anyone feel weanlings or calves are scarce to buy at the moment?

charityboy

Don't know about weanlings but if you think calves are scarce you are looking in the wrong places , the marts are flooded with them

biddy2013

saranac1 wrote: »

Does anyone feel weanlings or calves are scarce to buy at the moment?

how many calves do you want?