atlantic mist wrote: » is that due to blue tongue virus? if they are consistently cheaper than us how is it no one has started buying in france and selling in ireland/uk going by your purchase price you couldnt loose money, make you wonder why uk buyers come to ireland instead of france. Theyd surely make your purchase price being killed in the factory provided their not bags of bones
George Sunsnow wrote: » I was talking to a Neighbour today who sold fresh calved heifers for €1750 each last week It’s a good liquid herd but is there that much of a fire under dairy cows now?
mahoney_j wrote: » Fair enough price for an obviously top class milky high solid heifer probably backed by good back pedigree .quality will always command a premium
jaymla627 wrote: They'd be lucky to make the factory if they ended up on the wrong farms, you simply can't get a lorry load of French bred hols heifers and expect them to survive in a grass based system with a sprinkling of meal, you have to remember to these animals would never of encountered worms/fluke in a lot of cases and have no resistance built up which is a recipe for trouble in itself
Mooooo wrote: » They are appearing in the UK in the high input system.
Gawddawggonnit wrote: » Lol. That's your sales pitch? Or, just talking up your cow type?
blackdog1 wrote: » They'll survive fine on 3kg of meal a day over the summer as long as they are calved in very good condition. Guys on feed to yield system would pump milk out of them and the French cattle are way ahead of American and Canadian for protein. Half the herds in Ireland have hairy breeze, fatal, etc in they're pedigrees and they did just fine.
Floki wrote: » Still have to be careful.https://www.farmersjournal.ie/risk-level-of-bluetongue-making-landfall-in-uk-remains-low-321942 Bad enough with all the bugs and viruses already without bringing in new ones.
Mooooo wrote: » Farm we went to had cows from four European countries. Rapidly expanding high yielding herd risks def higher.
mf240 wrote: » How do ya say, " would ya take a bit less " in French?
mahoney_j wrote: Neither just truth ,things obviously different in your kneck of the woods ,biggest problem lads have when selling heifers is that a lot of them don’t know what it costs to get a heifer never mind a real good one to calving at 24 months ,selling less than circa 1500 only buyer getting value If I was selling best of my heifers the price above would be my asking price and I would get it as lots of records ,ped certs and proven high solids fertile cows
kevthegaff wrote: » Any word on the dairy sale in nenagh the other day j?
ozil10 wrote: » Would usually Fatten Cull Cows but with increasing cow numbers. I just don't have the room to house them so will be sending them to the mart some cows still doing over 16l+ Just wondering what most people do -Send them straight from the parlour -leave them dry off for week or two before going to the mart - also would you give them dry cow tube or just sealer Cheers
cute geoge wrote: » Send straight to the mart ,i seen nice cows dried off last month in the mart and the jobbers pulled the price because they were tubed and the withdrawal meant they could not be killed straight away!! any excuse of course
mahoney_j wrote: Next Wednesday Kev
kevthegaff wrote: » 78 animals sold 1100-1450 incalf heifers
mahoney_j wrote: » Where was that Kev ??,first dairy sale in Nenagh on Wednesday ,50/60 entered I think .value in those prices for buyer ,frig all for seller .i know of a local bunch feb calving ,milk recorded ,over 540kgms in report ,ai bred and in calf to high ebi bulls pick of a bunch of 45 heifers/100 cows 1750 each in the yard
Timmaay wrote: » Kev you pickup any heifers yet? Still looking at my options here, scope to throw on another 50 without much sweat here but labour the main limit.
mahoney_j wrote: » That’s a pretty major issue to be fair
