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Bass Reeves

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

I bought 4 for exactly the same money. Wish he could have had more of them. They are doing a massive thrive.

What do you intend doing with them, finishing off grass in before December, out if the shed after Christmas or off grass next summer

CloughCasey1

Bass Reeves wrote: »

What do you intend doing with them, finishing off grass in before December, out if the shed after Christmas or off grass next summer

There was 2 frx and 2 aax in that bunch. 2 aax will be 30 mts in July and will send them end of this month the frx will be 30 mts in Aug. Will send one and keep the other u36mts as he will hardly make O. Will see how they kill out sure. Ive a bunch of plain hex/aax/frx cattle finishing now with nicer types for later in summer.

CloughCasey1

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

There was 2 frx and 2 aax in that bunch. 2 aax will be 30 mts in July and will send them end of this month the frx will be 30 mts in Aug. Will send one and keep the other u36mts as he will hardly make O. Will see how they kill out sure. Ive a bunch of plain hex/aax/frx cattle finishing now with nicer types for later in summer.

That's the better frx

tellmeabit

Sold in gorthalea today. 2.30 per kg. Weanling bulls. Said heifers same. Wasn't best pleased . told on phone be given a guaranteed price and then buyers be let in later to bid and farmer gets better price. Maurice then said in the ring that no bidding... Felt done but have to take it .. Eont be brining my girls there. Don't understand why the cameras on turned on there. They are all set up for online trading

tellmeabit

tellmeabit wrote: »

Sold in gorthalea today. 2.30 per kg. Weanling bulls. Said heifers same. Wasn't best pleased . told on phone be given a guaranteed price and then buyers be let in later to bid and farmer gets better price. Maurice then said in the ring that no bidding... Felt done but have to take it .. Eont be brining my girls there. Don't understand why the cameras on turned on there. They are all set up for online trading

Neighbour had very middling aa & si heifers there in Gortatlea today 330 kg ish all €2 /kg. Though it was a good price for them.

tellmeabit

DukeCaboom wrote: »

Neighbour had very middling aa & si heifers there in Gortatlea today 330 kg ish all €2 /kg. Though it was a good price for them.

Was it ssme deal? Weight and get your price. These were quality stock to be fair

tellmeabit

tellmeabit wrote: »

Was it ssme deal? Weight and get your price. These were quality stock to be fair

He said hed giv him 2 euro over the phone, bring them down and theyre weighed in the mart. These were bucket reared cattle.

Siamsa Sessions

Took delivery of 12 FR yearlings today. Avg 340kg and paid 1.70/kg including delivery. Straight from another farm and no mart involved. This is their first move so one movement on their cards now

orm0nd

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Took delivery of 12 FR yearlings today. Avg 340kg and paid 1.70/kg including delivery. Straight from another farm and no mart involved. This is their first move so one movement on their cards now

best of luck with them ...they won't be hungry in the near future anyhow.

kk.man

That's about the run of those types.

Gortatlea going online this week.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Took delivery of 12 FR yearlings today. Avg 340kg and paid 1.70/kg including delivery. Straight from another farm and no mart involved. This is their first move so one movement on their cards now

Well wear.

Are you planning on boxing one of them:P

Bass Reeves

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Took delivery of 12 FR yearlings today. Avg 340kg and paid 1.70/kg including delivery. Straight from another farm and no mart involved. This is their first move so one movement on their cards now

They look a decent enough bunch. Probably a bit too well done. They look to be mostly O grade cattle.

Fine Day

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Took delivery of 12 FR yearlings today. Avg 340kg and paid 1.70/kg including delivery. Straight from another farm and no mart involved. This is their first move so one movement on their cards now

Nothing wrong with a good FR. I bet you will have more out of them at the end of the day with small investment. I bought a bunch about a month ago like that and they are thriving well. So easy to handle them. Follow you around the place.

Siamsa Sessions

In fairness they seem to have more of a British Friesien look than Holstein anoyt then and were apparently out-wintered too.

Don’t know about boxing these - we’d need a fairly big box compared to the lambs!

Re the grass/mower - it got ahead of us the last few weeks so the cattle *are* the mower. They’ll hopefully be better for the ground than cutting silage off it. Might be easier to sell them compared to bales of silage too!

Danzy

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

In fairness they seem to have more of a British Friesien look than Holstein anoyt then and were apparently out-wintered too.

Don’t know about boxing these - we’d need a fairly big box compared to the lambs!

Re the grass/mower - it got ahead of us the last few weeks so the cattle *are* the mower. They’ll hopefully be better for the ground than cutting silage off it. Might be easier to sell them compared to bales of silage too!

It's looking fresh and leafy and there are many parts of this country where grass growth is way behind normal.
They'll be good to you.

Bass Reeves

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

In fairness they seem to have more of a British Friesien look than Holstein anoyt then and were apparently out-wintered too.

Don’t know about boxing these - we’d need a fairly big box compared to the lambs!

Re the grass/mower - it got ahead of us the last few weeks so the cattle *are* the mower. They’ll hopefully be better for the ground than cutting silage off it. Might be easier to sell them compared to bales of silage too!

When they get it 2/3 eaten down split it into 4-5 sections. Put the water trough in the middle of the field where the sections meet. then let them eat a section down. but they will get to a stage where they will get very slow to eat it down then cut it with the mower and they will hover it up in 2-3 days, move on to the next section and repeat. By the time you get through the last section, you should have nice fresh grass in first section.

The real trick would be to pre mow that height of grass and fence front and back but its a pain to do.

tellmeabit

DukeCaboom wrote: »

Gortatlea going online this week.

Maurice said this wasnt happening on Thursdays 🙄🙄

Farm365

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Took delivery of 12 FR yearlings today. Avg 340kg and paid 1.70/kg including delivery. Straight from another farm and no mart involved. This is their first move so one movement on their cards now

Is the plan to finish them or summer graze?

Siamsa Sessions

Farm365 wrote: »

Is the plan to finish them or summer graze?

Summer graze at the moment as I don’t think out-wintering or feeding in a yard would work well. We don’t have any slatted shed (yet!)

Bass Reeves

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Summer graze at the moment as I don’t think out-wintering or feeding in a yard would work well. We don’t have any slatted shed (yet!)

Ya they will be heavy bullocks to over winter outside 500kgs+ I would expect and 12 of them would want a bit of room.

Limestone Cowboy

Was watching the heifers selling online in manorhamilton earlier. Thought they were a good enough trade.

Siamsa Sessions

Bass Reeves wrote: »

Ya they will be heavy bullocks to over winter outside 500kgs+ I would expect and 12 of them would want a bit of room.

What kind of daily weight gain would you be talking about for these types of animal? I'm guessing there's nothing to be gained feeding them meal at this stage so they'll be on grass only for the next 4-5 months.

Bass Reeves

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

What kind of daily weight gain would you be talking about for these types of animal? I'm guessing there's nothing to be gained feeding them meal at this stage so they'll be on grass only for the next 4-5 months.

Middle of October is 150 days. Will you hold that long? With good grass they might hit 120 kgs. When selling I am not sure it payd to give them 1-2 kgs for last 30 days. But it is very marginal. My own opinion is come late September unless you have loads of grass offload. It might even pay to chance them on DD in late August. A bit of hay or straw if they will eat it will stop them from being empty the day you sell if late in the year.

Yours looked a bit too good I prefer to buy Friesian s bit more storish. However there colouring suggest they are fairly square as friesian's go. It about getting weight on them and hoping for the best.

Albert Johnson

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Was watching the heifers selling online in manorhamilton earlier. Thought they were a good enough trade.

The heifers were a great trade imo for all types, plenty of customers especially for good CHx and LMx heifer weanlings circa 300kg. There was a pen of very fleshy coloured SIMx heifers that were off the scale dear I thought, they'd be very middling cattle without all that feeding.

Bass Reeves

Jjameson wrote: »

Ah you can’t beat good Kilkenny type Fr that got a good start, they’ll grow on in size regardless . If you are returning them to market a couple of Kgs of meal from mid June as in October Siamsa as bass is not the customer you want! You want them shining and looking warm and well to tempt the gentleman finisher.

2kgs/head for 150 days is 300kgs at 240/ton its 72 euro plus time feeding. You would want 100 euro extra on the friesian. The big problem is if you start replacing grass in diet with ration. As well they get fussier about what they pick. I have put bullocks to finish on 3kgs. Its imposssible to get them to clean out paddocks i have to lets the stores in to clean it out

While taking 680 euro off Jj for nice fleshy friesians in a mart in late September Bass's 580 with no ration is just as good value out of a field in Mid August. Your still have plenty of grass for to finish your heifers

Farm365

Bass Reeves wrote: »

2kgs/head for 150 days is 300kgs at 240/ton its 72 euro plus time feeding. You would want 100 euro extra on the friesian. The big problem is if you start replacing grass in diet with ration. As well they get fussier about what they pick. I have put bullocks to finish on 3kgs. Its imposssible to get them to clean out paddocks i have to lets the stores in to clean it out

While taking 680 euro off Jj for nice fleshy friesians in a mart in late September Bass's 580 with no ration is just as good value out of a field in Mid August. Your still have plenty of grass for to finish your heifers

What’s the key to summer grazing bass? Is it buying early around Feb before prices rise and get them straight to grass if possible?

Bass Reeves

Farm365 wrote: »

What’s the key to summer grazing bass? Is it buying early around Feb before prices rise and get them straight to grass if possible?

IMO at present it nearly impossible to make decent money off summer grazing.I gave up winter finish because it ate into my nitrates and cattle bought to replace finished cattle from the shed left no margin. I buy from June-November and sell the following year. used to buy a few wanling and carry to finish but now I just buy stores. The trick is to know your costs and decide on your margin and then buy with that in mind. you work off the price you got for the cattle you sold.

Cavanjack

Bass Reeves wrote: »

IMO at present it nearly impossible to make decent money off summer grazing.I gave up winter finish because it ate into my nitrates and cattle bought to replace finished cattle from the shed left no margin. I buy from June-November and sell the following year. used to buy a few wanling and carry to finish but now I just buy stores. The trick is to know your costs and decide on your margin and then buy with that in mind. you work off the price you got for the cattle you sold.

We’re you up at 170kg/n per ha when winter finishing?

Bass Reeves

Cavanjack wrote: »

We’re you up at 170kg/n per ha when winter finishing?

Yes an above it at times. I would still be hitting above the 160, with the late finishing last year I was slightly above it I was lucky I had slurry exported :rolleyes: