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Calf Prices 2014

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    #482
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    2 aa heifer calves and aa bull 2 weeks old still on cow nice calves what are they worth?

    Father rang local auctioneer yesterday said there making 150-300 for very good ones


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    #483
    whelan2
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Father rang local auctioneer yesterday said there making 150-300 for very good ones

    These are aa now not jex :)


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    #484
    Greengrass1
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    These are aa now not jex :)

    Ha I'd be lucky to get 15c for a jex now ha
    Ah no I've half a dozen AAX out if fr so was wondering what there worth


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    #485
    Timmaay
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    Got 150 for aaxs outa HOs awhile back. We had 2 aaxs out of heifers, they were bloody black and white somehow, very square looking like a br fr, but definitely only the one serve by an AA to the heifers. Anyways my dad sold them the other day, he wouldn't tell me how muchy he got so I'm guessing it was rubbish. He brought another bloody fr bull home also, no bid.


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    #486
    whelan2
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    milkprofit wrote: »
    2 fr hf calves 1 month old freemartins what they worth
    dealer was buying up freemartins for feck all in the mart and selling them for alot as a1 breeding heifers. Would you have any comeback, it would be a few years before you would find out


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    #487
    sheebadog
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    New run of calves here now and I sell to a local guy that produces 3000 calves for veal every year.
    Hol bulls €165 average so far.
    Bbxhol bulls €366 average
    Jexhol bull €5 !!


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    #488
    jt65
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    dealer was buying up freemartins for feck all in the mart and selling them for alot as a1 breeding heifers. Would you have any comeback, it would be a few years before you would find out


    in fairness it would take a fair green horn that would buy fr heifers from a dealer with different herd id's


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    #489
    whelan2
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    jt65 wrote: »
    in fairness it would take a fair green horn that would buy fr heifers from a dealer with different herd id's
    well i wouldnt buy them but obviously people did, in some cases it was the original herd that was contacted about it


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    #490
    loveta
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    Sold 2 aa bulls yesterday 250, 315
    2 fr bulls 70 each
    2 bb hef calfs "twins" 190 250
    Seems to me unless you have a good shape blue and have them well done there just not so popular now.


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    #491
    whelan2
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    loveta wrote: »
    Sold 2 aa bulls yesterday 250, 315
    2 fr bulls 70 each
    2 bb hef calfs "twins" 190 250
    Seems to me unless you have a good shape blue and have them well done there just not so popular now.
    what age where tha aa's


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    #492
    loveta
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    what age where tha aa's

    One just under 3 weeks the other just over three weeks.


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    #493
    Damo810
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    What's going on with the blues? From the few we've had over the last few years always found them more reliable than the angus. A lot of small framed aa out there!


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    #494
    larrymiller
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    Damo810 wrote: »
    What's going on with the blues? From the few we've had over the last few years always found them more reliable than the angus. A lot of small framed aa out there!

    I dunno, I'm picking them up for 200 middle shaped ones, am I missing something?


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    #495
    Reggie.
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    larrymiller wrote: »
    I dunno, I'm picking them up for 200 middle shaped ones, am I missing something?

    At the moment no one is buying them in the marts but maybe that will change when your calves are reared


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    #496
    Greengrass1
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    larrymiller wrote: »
    I dunno, I'm picking them up for 200 middle shaped ones, am I missing something?

    Are you Larry Goodman??? :D


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    #497
    larrymiller
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Are you Larry Goodman??? :D

    Haha I wish!!

    Il be finishing them myself for Larry


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    #498
    larrymiller
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    larrymiller wrote: »
    Haha I wish!!

    Il be finishing them myself for Larry

    And I don't mean as contract rearer before yee kill me


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    #499
    Farrell
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    At the moment no one is buying them in the marts but maybe that will change when your calves are reared

    They weren't selling that good over the last few years as weanlings, especially the plainer ones.
    Would that be anything to do with it?


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    #500
    larrymiller
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    Farrell wrote: »
    They weren't selling that good over the last few years as weanlings, especially the plainer ones.
    Would that be anything to do with it?

    But they'd still be better than a Angus & white head


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    #501
    Farrell
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    larrymiller wrote: »
    But they'd still be better than a Angus & white head

    True, but as posters are saying, Larry's boys are buying aax & hex, which will push up price.
    Only problem I see, is dairy people could opt for aax & hex instead of continental & no trade for calves this time next year. Tough choices


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    #502
    larrymiller
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    Farrell wrote: »
    True, but as posters are saying, Larry's boys are buying aax & hex, which will push up price

    Yeah I get ya! Your damned if u do and damned if you don't


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    #503
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,360 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    its all swings and roundabouts, years ago we did an et on an aa cow , got 8 aa bulls out of her, the price was crap and we only averaged 800 pounds, now we could have sold each bull 2 or 3 times over this year.


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    #504
    Henwin
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    Aberdeen angus bull $285
    Belgian blue heifer $415
    Friesian bull $240
    all bout 4 weeks old


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    #505
    whelan2
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    85 euro each for 4 br/fr bull calves 7-14 days old, dealer was giving me 45 in yard and would have to wait a week for cheque


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    #506
    Reggie.
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    85 euro each for 4 br/fr bull calves 7-14 days old, dealer was giving me 45 in yard and would have to wait a week for cheque

    That's the style. Put the dealer in his place


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    #507
    whelan2
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    That's the style. Put the dealer in his place
    he was at the sale:D my calves where in early, there where 3 poor looking fr bulls with droopy ears making 15 euro, aa heifers around 5 weeks to 320:eek::eek::eek: lim heifer around 4 weeks 150


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    #508
    Reggie.
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    he was at the sale:D my calves where in early, there where 3 poor looking fr bulls with droopy ears making 15 euro, aa heifers around 5 weeks to 320:eek::eek::eek: lim heifer around 4 weeks 150

    Some calves still well up in price it seems. I paid 320 for really good strong calves at the start of the year and feel better about it now as the price didn't seem to come down much


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    #509
    limo_100
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    Reggie. wrote: »
    Some calves still well up in price it seems. I paid 320 for really good strong calves at the start of the year and feel better about it now as the price didn't seem to come down much

    what type of calves did you buy reggie a mixture or did you match them? bulls or heifers?


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    #510
    Reggie.
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    limo_100 wrote: »
    what type of calves did you buy reggie a mixture or did you match them? bulls or heifers?

    All bulls. 4 HEX 1 AAX and a red FR


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    #511
    cute geoge
    Registered Users Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    smashing wh heifer-6weeks€280
    nice wh heifer-5weeks€240
    2 plain wh bulls-5weeks €250
    plain wh heifer-5 weeks€220
    poorish wh heifer- 4weeks€170
    very happy with them prices ,1st one should have made more compared to rest of them .Trade in general was only average with weather probably having a positive


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