When are ye drying off cows/selling cull cows?

simx

As above I was interested in when lads plan to sell their culls, will you hold on for them for longer? Until grass gets scarce? Until forced to house?

mahoney_j

Drying off everything over 2 days in late November and will keep culls till first mart in jan as have loads of grub and want to max my stock relief.no major quota issue either but will go oad for at least second half of November

visatorro

Have 25 Feb calvers dry a fortnight now. They are housed on half silage half straw. Most of the culls are gone since we scanned in Aug I think. Will be drying off rest of spring calvers regardless of calving date around fifteen of November. Lots of poor management decisions based on greed/lunacy still happening here. Will be next year before things get slightly better

keep going

Being honest I dont know what im going to do , normally I milk them until 1 dec dry , feed them silage for winter and give them one month on grass and then off to mart by mid march and you would generally get around 400 more for them and would cost you maybe 150 in silage and grass.this works for me because I have rented land which has to be paid in the spring and I have blocks away from the home place, also we grow alot of early grass around here.but this year they are going to be dried a month earlier but I also reckon dry cows will be scarce as anecdotely I hear sca ning results are very good

milkprofit

simx wrote: »

As above I was interested in when lads plan to sell their culls, will you hold on for them for longer? Until grass gets scarce? Until forced to house?

All sold last month milking not in calf to north
Culls Carew 2 months ago

Greengrass1

Will dry them off soon and into shed fir winter.
March will be lean month here so they'll go to factory then aswell as a few AAX heifers I have and a fr bullock

Dawggone

What kind of money do culls make?
Sent off five last week at an average of €1000/head. Seems that is the price with a couple of years.

simx

Dawggone wrote: »

What kind of money do culls make?
Sent off five last week at an average of €1000/head. Seems that is the price with a couple of years.

Are you not in France? You'd need a good cow to come into that here

KatyMac

Cow and a heifer that failed to go into calf after several attempts are going next week.
Both in really good condition so hoping for a decent price.

Dawggone

simx wrote: »

Are you not in France? You'd need a good cow to come into that here

€3.35/kg carcass. Good cows will weigh over 350kg carcass.

simx

Dawggone wrote: »

€3.35/kg carcass. Good cows will weigh over 350kg carcass.

Agree there but 280/290kg will catch a lot of cows, €3.10 flat o&ps here at the minute