Calf to beef thread

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123532541#Comment_123532541

That's my point. OK I know they doing trials on bad, ok and good calves but at least give figures for the average.

straight

Sold some of my "worthless byproduct" fr bulls from last year. They made an average of 1180 euro. A tiny angus heifer that wouldn't have made a tenner last spring made 1000 euro.

Sold about 40 weaned angus calves. They averaged 700 euro.

It's my first year since I started farming getting paid for calves.

kk.man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123532658#Comment_123532658

Fair play. In the beef game nothing is worthless you just need to recognise value.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123532658#Comment_123532658

It's all related to the price of beef. Last year a 300k DW AA heifer was making about 1550 euro, this year the same.e heifer was making 2400 euro until a few weeks ago. Finishers are passing it back to store men, store men passes it back to the calf producer. The kd that bought the tiny heifer probably over paid for her. The Fr bulls give optionnto the buyer. If they are 350ish kgs a finisher could get them to 330-350kgs DW after Christmas. If anything on present numbers you were overpaid last year.

funkey_monkey

How do you all wean calves off CMR?

Currently decreased it down to 2L one per day in the evenings. They would be eating over 1kg/day crunch plus straw.

Do you just stop or go to every other day and then stop?

They are old enough to be off milk, but I'm just not happy with a few that seem to continually empty looking.

_Brian

spoke to a farmer today that moved away from sucklers to calf rearing. Mid 60’s and feeling cows were just too much, on his own at home.

He’s had a terrible time with coccidiosis running through the calves. He’d never seen it before and didn’t recognise just how serious it was until it had gotten hold. Lost a few calves, more awful poorly. He said it’s been a tough learning curve.

Siamsa Sessions

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123535607#Comment_123535607

I do similar to you, gradually decreasing down to 2L once a day. They naturally eat more nuts as you decrease the milk. Then I just stop and out they go.

Keep an eye on the few you think are empty looking. If they’re not eating the nuts when they’re off the milk, separate them out from the rest and let them get used to the nuts again in a field/paddock on their own.

Siamsa Sessions

If it’s any consolation you can tell him it happens to nearly everyone starting off and this will be his hardest year