Options for fattening cows

max12

I have some suckler cows not in calf. Feb and March born and calves are about 250 Kgs.

Options are.

Sell in mart immediately when take off calves (early September)
Start giving nuts with the calves there also.
Take off calves and start feeding the cows for 6 weeu meal.

Cows are in good flesh at the min and just on grass with no meal.

Bass Reeves

What do you intend to do with the weanlings

50HX

Good money at the minute for cows witb calves at foot...another option

max12

Bass Reeves wrote: »

What do you intend to do with the weanlings

Will be keeping calves for the winter.

Not an option to sell weanlings or even calf at foot job. Just want to sell cows and might consider buying replacement heifers afterwards depending on trade.

White Clover

50HX wrote: »

Good money at the minute for cows witb calves at foot...another option

What's the value of a 23 month old limxAA with a 3 week old Red lim bull calf at foot. Good scopey heifer, will fill out into a big cow.

Bass Reeves

max12 wrote: »

Will be keeping calves for the winter.

Not an option to sell weanlings or even calf at foot job. Just want to sell cows and might consider buying replacement heifers afterwards depending on trade.

With present prices it may be a case of weaning and selling as soon as possible.

max12

Bass Reeves wrote: »

With present prices it may be a case of weaning and selling as soon as possible.

In the mart?

Bass Reeves

max12 wrote: »

In the mart?

Where else.

Gods Gift

Rolled barley and grass.

50HX

White Clover wrote: »

What's the value of a 23 month old limxAA with a 3 week old Red lim bull calf at foot. Good scopey heifer, will fill out into a big cow.

They could go for 1400-1600 if there is go for the them going on what i saw last week

Base price

White Clover wrote: »

What's the value of a 23 month old limxAA with a 3 week old Red lim bull calf at foot. Good scopey heifer, will fill out into a big cow.

Looked at BJD online yesterday whilst having a coffee and cow/calves were from €880 (SHx/AAx heifer calf) to €1640 (LMx/heifer calf) with the majority of them selling around €1400.

minerleague

max12 wrote: »

I have some suckler cows not in calf. Feb and March born and calves are about 250 Kgs.

Options are.

Sell in mart immediately when take off calves (early September)
Start giving nuts with the calves there also.
Take off calves and start feeding the cows for 6 weeu meal.

Cows are in good flesh at the min and just on grass with no meal.

Sent older suckler cull cows to factory in last two weeks, reckon they would have more ( guessing KO etc) in the mart at the moment. I would go for option 2 above, you can remove cows then at any time once calves are eating nuts

max12

max12 wrote: »

I have some suckler cows not in calf. Feb and March born and calves are about 250 Kgs.

Options are.

Sell in mart immediately when take off calves (early September)
Start giving nuts with the calves there also.
Take off calves and start feeding the cows for 6 weeu meal.

Cows are in good flesh at the min and just on grass with no meal.

How old are the cows? Age will impact how long it will take them to fatten

Aravo

Is the OP in the Beam scheme, if yes, then an early selling point would assist their adherence to Beam T&C's

Markcheese

They'll probably go backwards when you take the calves off them ,so if you can get the easywean paddles it'll stop the cows stressing and pacing ,so they can get on with just eating ..

TooOldBoots

Savage prices for all cow types at the minute. I reckon by the time you'd have them fat it would be late October the earliest. Just in time for the Glut of fat-stock in the autumn. You'd be getting the same money for them now, maybe even more if the ar$e falls out of the prices. Are we due some more Brexit BS to pull the prices back?

Welding Rod

Out the gate and into the mart ASAP, based on current prices. Pretty much all stock are hot at the minute. Culls are red hot.

Bass Reeves

Welding Rod wrote: »

Out the gate and into the mart ASAP, based on current prices. Pretty much all stock are hot at the minute. Culls are red hot.

I think when you take BEAM into account selling cows in the mart ASAP is a good call. On a Suckler farm there may be 2k in play with BEAM. Selling culls early and not replacing may allow more flexibility when selling weanlings or stores

Mooooo

Had a cull fr cow get summer mastitis after the herd test, got 2.90 at p+3=. Only killed out at just shy of 300kgs,lucky to get her away as she going backwards over the bank holiday, may have lost a bit in the time she had it.
No ration got. If healthy dunno what she would have made in the mart