Royal charolais sale cork

ellewood

Anyone going to the dispersal sale of pb charolais on in cork today?

onyerbikepat

This one;
http://www.corkmarts.com/index.cfm?page=viewEvents&id=246&cYear=2014&cMonth=12

TITANIUM.

Would love to have the money to go and purchase a few. One of the few substantial herds that concentrates on materal traits.

Genghis Cant

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Would love to have the money to go and purchase a few. One of the few substantial herds that concentrates on materal traits.

My best Charolais cow and foundation of our few Charolais was a Royal cow. I bought her incalf to an English Charolais, a Balmyle bull. She'd a heifer calf, the milkiest Charolais I ever had.

TITANIUM.

Genghis Cant wrote: »

My best Charolais cow and foundation of our few Charolais was a Royal cow. I bought her incalf to an English Charolais, a Balmyle bull. She'd a heifer calf, the milkiest Charolais I ever had.

I was talking to Kevin one day on the phone about calling down to him to take a look at a few. Very helpful and forthcoming with advice. He told me to stop useing the AI bulls I was and recommended a few that would bring some milk back.
There no good without a bit of milk.

ellewood

not much being sold trade bad for nice stock

TITANIUM.

ellewood wrote: »

not much being sold trade bad for nice stock

Seriously!
Hower the incalf heifers going?

ellewood

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Seriously!
Hower the incalf heifers going?

1800

johal

i was at the sale today though it was about right. most of the younger heifers were poor.
some very wild cows and heifers . a lot of the cows were old 10 years old but some were super including some french bred. no dates for calving or scanned in calf and the conditions of sale and terms all in favour of seller ie. no comeback regards any print error or mistake. the ring was two feet of straw so you could not see their feet

ellewood

Spot on...

When I got home this evening I had a lot more measures on me own heifers

The straw was stupid alright

I would have chanced and bid some of the younger heifers and tbh what they were making was what they were worth and should have been sold
The fact that they weren't scanned and the t+c's were no comeback didn't do em any favours
Also cows that looked like they never had a calf would have been expensive beef
The fact that v few were being sold made the mood ****
Also they were in

johal

the stock bulls used might look very impressive but were not producing anything of note when you see 30 or 40 of them in a group. only the odd one or two were any good

ellewood

Also they were in very storish condition and some were stone mad

Maybe I was expecting a lot more on reputation but id have better off at home

There's an old saying an ounce of breeding is worth a ton of meal - all I saw today was the opposite - well bred but very average and imo poorly fed stock if they were commercial stock Id never think of breeding after any but maybe 10% of them.

Id love to of known what they wanted money wise to sell them all I saw was no sale no sale Id say cork parts didn't make a whole pile either ...

ellewood

Agreed totally blown up someone said that bull cost E35,000 in France??

I was feeding heifers this evening after and they are this years calves and they were better and heavier than 18-20 month old heifers were there today and I didn't think they were great b4

2 yr old heifers weren't big/heavy enough to bull at the moment

johal

what happened at the very start when someone asked a quistion about the hight court i missed it

ellewood

johal wrote: »

what happened at the very start when someone asked a quistion about the hight court i missed it

Na missed that :-)

johal

it made no difference anyway cattle sold themselves

ellewood

johal wrote: »

it made no difference anyway cattle sold themselves

Or went tru un sold more like..

There were lads there from way up the country and from the north and were well pissed of with the whole thing
if they had to have said when a good heifers went un sold at 2K that they wanted X for her it would have been better than running them all true and not selling any of them It went to the stage when a nice heifers came into ring I didn't even bother bidding cause she wasn't going to be sold anyways so there wasno point

onyerbikepat

In fairness, to halter train and groom 200 cattle is some task, in itself. I understand that the owner was in bad health recently too, so that might explain a lot. It wasn't that well advertsied either was it?

oldsmokey

Seems some of the stock didnt have a pedigree cert following it either, ...where you going then?