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What non-breeding beef system has worked well for you?

  • 31-12-2013 1:18pm
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    merryberry
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    What non-breeding beef system has worked well for you? Have 40ac of grassland (30 ac of good dry land but its old, 10ac of wetland that needs seeing to) in one block, fenced, roads and watered with access to slatted sheds. Friend telling me to buy stores in the spring and finish off grass. I don’t have access to the credit needed to buy the numbers to achieve a high SR. Pasture is old so grass on which they are being finished so isn’t highly digestible which probably means higher concentrate supplementation late on. What system has worked well for you and why? Thanks


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    severeoversteer
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    merryberry wrote: »
    What non-breeding beef system has worked well for you? Have 40ac of grassland (30 ac of good dry land but its old, 10ac of wetland that needs seeing to) in one block, fenced, roads and watered with access to slatted sheds. Friend telling me to buy stores in the spring and finish off grass. I don’t have access to the credit needed to buy the numbers to achieve a high SR. Pasture is old so grass on which they are being finished so isn’t highly digestible which probably means higher concentrate supplementation late on. What system has worked well for you and why? Thanks

    buy young angus or Hereford heifers as weanlings or yearlings and finish them between 16 18 months

    get quality assured

    heifers fatten easier than bullocks

    angus and Hereford will do well without a massive amount of meal

    try and get them to qualify for angus scheme

    make contact with angus scheme and they will advise you

    these type of stock don't cost a lot per head and they are hardy

    you can also have between 50-60 of them if you fertilise accordingly

    for your first year get an advisor , be it a teagasc advisor or a friend who knows his stuff ( not a friend who thinks he knows)


    and my own advice is to have them gone to the factory before September October November december period as its often a poor period


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