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Never wrestle with pigs

What age were they roughly?

Bass Reeves

Wes Palmer Lee wrote: »

sold heifers in Aurivo mart

chx 445kg €1125
lmx 450 1070
lmx 450 1120
chx 430 1115
chx 420 930
lmx 460 970
lmx 420 1010

Fecking raging when i saw the cheque, €2 a head booking fee and a tenner to the IFA as well as 2% commission. Cooperative mart my fccking arse

I presume a tenner overall to the IFA. In truth that is your own fault for not stopping it. The issue with marts and suckler weanling's is that lads send them in as singles. You has two Chx's that more than likely could have been sold as a double No's 1 and 4. and three Lmx's that could have been sold as a lot No's 2,3 and 7.

In a way suckler farmers are lazy sending weanlings in as singles when they could be bunched. Time is money in any game. As well as that singles play in to dealer's and finishers that are in the mart ever day

Never wrestle with pigs

I sent in a few as doubles and triples this week and I would say I actually got paid more for them.

amacca

I never buy multiples...always singles as I nearly always seem to get one poor animal snuck in I paid over the odds for no matter how much I eyeball them.

Bass Reeves

amacca wrote: »

I never buy multiples...always singles as I nearly always seem to get one poor animal snuck in I paid over the odds for no matter how much I eyeball them.

With suckler weanlings nobody si saying stick them in large bunches but it should be possible to put some of them in pairs or threes. It is interesting that you note taht you end up paying over the odds if they are in multiples, thsi is to the sellers advantage so.

Willfarman

I like a bunch of cattle. I like to have comrade cattle coming home together just because they settle better. Less stress. It's amazing how even a year later comrade cattle graze together and lie together.

Wes Palmer Lee

Bass Reeves wrote: »

I presume a tenner overall to the IFA. In truth that is your own fault for not stopping it. The issue with marts and suckler weanling's is that lads send them in as singles. You has two Chx's that more than likely could have been sold as a double No's 1 and 4. and three Lmx's that could have been sold as a lot No's 2,3 and 7.

In a way suckler farmers are lazy sending weanlings in as singles when they could be bunched. Time is money in any game. As well as that singles play in to dealer's and finishers that are in the mart ever day

Lesson learned..!
They were all autumn '16 stock. As far as subsidised agencies like IFA and Teagasc are concerned I don't believe in giving them anything.

tanko

Wes Palmer Lee wrote: »

Lesson learned..!
They were all autumn '16 stock. As far as subsidised agencies like IFA and Teagasc are concerned I don't believe in giving them anything.

Make sure you get that tenner back, the thieving crooks are obliged to give your money back to you.

Wes Palmer Lee

tanko wrote: »

Make sure you get that tenner back, the thieving crooks are obliged to give your money back to you.

If they took a €100 for the hospice or any other worthy cause like it then I'd never complain, be delighted in fact.

Makes my blood boil to see these fellows dining out on my hard earned losses...yes losses, those stock left nothing sadly but as the eternal optimist said... "at least you can buy stock back in at small money!"

croot

Wes Palmer Lee wrote: »

If they took a €100 for the hospice or any other worthy cause like it then I'd never complain, be delighted in fact.

Makes my blood boil to see these fellows dining out on my hard earned losses...yes losses, those stock left nothing sadly but as the eternal optimist said... "at least you can buy stock back in at small money!"

Do you mind me asking which aurivo mart was it?

I know the €2 entry fee is standard in most marts but I though they had stopped the IFA thing.

barryoc1

Sold a few cattle in Kilmallock mart yesterday aged between 16 and 18 months old.
4 Black whitehead bullocks 428kg 870 euro
2 Red whitehead bullocks 470kg 920 euro
5 black whitehead heifers 408kg 740 euro.

patsy_mccabe

Sold a 7 month char bull weanling today for €825. Bought the cow last Christmas as an incalf heifer for €1100. She's a shorthorn, boney but loads of milk.

Western Pomise

What is trade in marts at mo for cull cows for fattening like?......
Cows would have calves after coming off them ......are in good shape.Roughly 700 to 750kg....good roomy CHx and SH cows?

Thanks for any replies.

Western Pomise

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Sold a 7 month char bull weanling today for €825. Bought the cow last Christmas as an incalf heifer for €1100. She's a shorthorn, boney but loads of milk.

You can’t beat the SH cow for milk....have several good beef SH cows,will produce a well fed March born CH bull calf that’s 380 to 400kg + with no concentrates fed.

patsy_mccabe

Western Pomise wrote: »

You can’t beat the SH cow for milk....have several good beef SH cows,will produce a well fed March born CH bull calf that’s 380 to 400kg + with no concentrates fed.

Mine was 320Kg but it was her first calf. Had another shorthorn cow years ago and she looked like a holstein but always a super calf. They're right pets too, a joy to work with.

Western Pomise

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Western Pomise wrote: »

You can’t beat the SH cow for milk....have several good beef SH cows,will produce a well fed March born CH bull calf that’s 380 to 400kg + with no concentrates fed.

Mine was 320Kg but it was her first calf. Had another shorthorn cow years ago and she looked like a holstein but always a super calf. They're right pets too, a joy to work with.

Great weight for a heifers calf...can hand milk any of my SH’s straight after they calve...did you see any dry cows sold lately?

patsy_mccabe

Western Pomise wrote: »

Great weight for a heifers calf...can hand milk any of my SH’s straight after they calve...did you see any dry cows sold lately?

No didnt, and I have a few to sell myself.

charolais0153

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

No didnt, and I have a few to sell myself.

You bought a heifer incalf to a charolasi. ?What age was she?

patsy_mccabe

charolais0153 wrote: »

You bought a heifer incalf to a charolasi. ?What age was she?

Heifer anounced in calf to Lim bull. She calved just short of 3 years.

tanko

Western Pomise wrote: »

What is trade in marts at mo for cull cows for fattening like?......
Cows would have calves after coming off them ......are in good shape.Roughly 700 to 750kg....good roomy CHx and SH cows?

Thanks for any replies.

Saw some cows sold today
09 BBX 730 kgs €1335
11 BBx 824 kgs €1710
12 Red Lim 740 kgs €1500
08 Lmx 792 kgs €1305
06 Red Lim 770kgs €1185
12 Red Simx 780kgs €1455
08 CHx 840kgs €1255
13 CHx 700 kgs €1380
12 Red Lim 486 kgs €875
13 Red Lim 512kgs €790
11 Red Simx 576 kgs €830
13 Black Lim 534 kgs €670
08 HE 758 kgs €1110
10 He 640 kgs €880
11 Red Simx 676 kgs €850

Western Pomise

tanko wrote: »

Western Pomise wrote: »

What is trade in marts at mo for cull cows for fattening like?......
Cows would have calves after coming off them ......are in good shape.Roughly 700 to 750kg....good roomy CHx and SH cows?

Thanks for any replies.

Saw some cows sold today
09 BBX 730 kgs €1335
11 BBx 824 kgs €1710
12 Red Lim 740 kgs €1500
08 Lmx 792 kgs €1305
06 Red Lim 770kgs €1185
12 Red Simx 780kgs €1455
08 CHx 840kgs €1255
13 CHx 700 kgs €1380
12 Red Lim 486 kgs €875
13 Red Lim 512kgs €790
11 Red Simx 576 kgs €830
13 Black Lim 534 kgs €670
08 HE 758 kgs €1110
10 He 640 kgs €880
11 Red Simx 676 kgs €850

Thanks for reply Tanko....nothing wrong with most of those prices....would most of them have being fed enough for killing or would they need feeding for a few months like my ladies?

Western Pomise

Meant to say would the lighter cows you list have being small confined cows or were they just very thin to weigh so badly?

tanko

Western Pomise wrote: »

Meant to say would the lighter cows you list have being small confined cows or were they just very thin to weigh so badly?

The lighter cows were generally smaller ones. Those prices were the best quality cows there. The heavy cows had plenty of flesh on them and were fit to kill or not too far off it.
Have seven cows to go here in the next few weeks.
The lad from Ashbourne who buys lots of cows wasn't there today, anyone know if he's around the marts?

Dozer1

At castleisland mart today heifer trade is well back going to be a long day....500kgs heifers barely made 2euro a kgs and they were prize winners. Red lm 418kgs made 870.

50HX

heard the same in listowel

light heifers weren't too bad - if you toughened you'd get 2.25/kg

anything over 350kg were septic in both bulls & heifers

kollegeknight

Ennis last Tuesday

Black Lim Bull Jan 25th- 345Kg-€790- OKish
Black Lim Bull Fed 22nd- 305 Kg-€610 Disappointed

thought they were worth more but went into the ring at lunch time.

50HX

kollegeknight wrote: »

Ennis last Tuesday

Black Lim Bull Jan 25th- 345Kg-€790- OKish
Black Lim Bull Fed 22nd- 305 Kg-€610 Disappointed

thought they were worth more but went into the ring at lunch time.

if they were red they would have made more...buyers don't like the black lm for some reason

charolais0153

50HX wrote: »

if they were red they would have made more...buyers don't like the black lm for some reason

Black lim are more than likely out of angus ,whitehead, friesian or black lim cows. These arent very 'continental'. The more continental breeding the better the feed conversion ratio so less feed costs and are mor efficient

patsy_mccabe

charolais0153 wrote: »

Black lim are more than likely out of angus ,whitehead, friesian or black lim cows. These arent very 'continental'. The more continental breeding the better the feed conversion ratio so less feed costs and are mor efficient

Not exactly true. I've a 7/8 bred limousin heifer and she's black. I've seen plenty of lim cows here alternate between black and red in their calves.

sonnybill

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Not exactly true. I've a 7/8 bred limousin heifer and she's black. I've seen plenty of lim cows here alternate between black and red in their calves.

I love a black limo also. One of the best limo bull weanlings I saw out of here was a grey Ch dam and Nino was black.. The man is trying still to get a black limo heifer out of her , the reds are tip top too though