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  • #1862
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    valtra2 wrote: »
    Pity the ppl buying them don't think the same.

    Can only see 2 picrures. Did u sell them yet


  • #1863
    Cavanjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Cavanjack


    valtra2 wrote: »
    Pity the ppl buying them don't think the same.

    It's the factories that don't want to pay for the quality cattle not the farmer. I'd have no problem paying top prices for top stock if there was a decent margin in Them.


  • #1864
    valtra2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭valtra2


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Can only see 2 picrures. Did u sell them yet

    Ya monday. Adv 1060 for adv 450kg lm and 1 si


  • #1865
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭tanko


    valtra2 wrote: »
    Ya monday. Adv 1060 for adv 450kg lm and 1 si

    What age on average were those lads? Were they off a stock bull or Ai?


  • #1866
    valtra2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭valtra2


    tanko wrote: »
    What age on average were those lads? Were they off a stock bull or Ai?

    Lm stock bull and si was ai xcd. Out of first calfer she was actually 470kg.. all Feb or late January


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  • #1867
    Red Cloud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭Red Cloud


    2.27c/k 450/470k 6 X R grade chx hfrs


  • #1868
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    Not my best day out with weanlings, mainly March/April born bulls, I didn't have the time to feed em properly, weather turned and they went straight to the shed and that set them back a bit....can't balance it all I guess.


  • #1869
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    bought these 4 weanling heifers
    1 blk LM, 2 red LM and a nice white CH


  • #1870
    Wes Palmer Lee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Wes Palmer Lee


    I suppose what you thought were sold cheapish you bought back a bit of value in return!


  • #1871
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Sold 2 weanlings this evening.


    Yellow LMx out of a Chx cow. 415kg - €1,000 (ADG -1.41)
    Red LMX out of a CHx cow. 385kg - €890 (ADG - 1.28)


    Both were born late Jan. Thought trade was tough!


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  • #1872
    Bleating Lamb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,975 ✭✭✭Bleating Lamb


    How is weanling trade in last week or so?

    Sold my weanlings a few weeks back,nice Goldie Ch calves,met a day when trade was fairly good so was happy enough.


  • #1873
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Sold two sh out of sim cows. Jan born around 400kg. Real nice types. €1200 out of the yard.


  • #1874
    Attie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭Attie


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Sold two sh out of sim cows. Jan born around 400kg. Real nice types. €1200 out of the yard.


    And worth every penny, great weight gain. Did you give much grain.


  • #1875
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Attie wrote: »
    And worth every penny, great weight gain. Did you give much grain.

    They were heifers calves too. I was delighted with them. Lovely quiet cattle the sh. They got about 1.5 kg of 16% P nut for the last 5 weeks since they came off the cows. So about 55kg nuts each that's it.


  • #1876
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,721 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Sold two sh out of sim cows. Jan born around 400kg. Real nice types. €1200 out of the yard.

    So you got €1200 each for 2 Jan 2017 shorthorn bulls? That's great money!


  • #1877
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    So you got €1200 each for 2 Jan 2017 shorthorn bulls? That's great money!

    I think he said heifers patsy in the post above.

    There's a lot more money in suckler stock atm than dairy.
    Funny how these things go.


  • #1878
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    Ah when you take the potential lifespan of stock like that they're not deer.. a good cull as well.


  • #1879
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    Floki wrote: »
    I think he said heifers patsy in the post above.

    There's a lot more money in suckler stock atm than dairy.
    Funny how these things go.

    Ya heifers he said. obviously bought for breeding.
    But they must have been exceptional shorthorn heifers to clear 1200


  • #1880
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,721 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Sorry, but where did he say heifers?......and I read all posts again.


  • #1881
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    Ya heifers he said. obviously bought for breeding.
    But they must have been exceptional shorthorn heifers to clear 1200

    Nope, heifers calves, didn't specify heifers themselves. Must have been smashing calves!


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  • #1882
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    So you got €1200 each for 2 Jan 2017 shorthorn bulls? That's great money!

    No heifers sorry. Sh Bulls are worth feck all. And out of first calving heifers. They were cracking heifers to be fair. I was going to keep them myself but just put them up for the crack. Couldn't refuse that for them.


  • #1883
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,531 ✭✭✭tanko


    Which bull were they off?


  • #1884
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    tanko wrote: »
    Which bull were they off?

    Djm, Don't think he's available anymore.


  • #1885
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Djm, Don't think he's available anymore.

    Have u any picks must have beenn an unreal colour


  • #1886
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Have u any picks must have beenn an unreal colour

    They don't really do them justice, the roan was a block and the other was savage long.


  • #1887
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,172 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Sold two sh out of sim cows. Jan born around 400kg. Real nice types. €1200 out of the yard.
    Attie wrote: »
    And worth every penny, great weight gain. Did you give much grain.
    Willfarman wrote: »
    Ah when you take the potential lifespan of stock like that they're not deer.. a good cull as well.
    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    They don't really do them justice, the roan was a block and the other was savage long.

    While they are nice stock by bulling time in April/May they will cost another 150-200 euro and 350 more before they calf down.Add in 20 euro for mart fees and transport and by the time they calf down 17-1800 euro. Final Cull value is 12-1400 euro depending on age. Compared to the cost and turn over of a dairy cow sucklers are expensive.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • #1888
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    A lot of cull friesian cows going through enniscorthy mart these days @ 1€ a kilo and less. 3 4 5 years old.. whereas a big Simmental cross cow. Pull the lever and watch the numbers roll.


  • #1889
    Cavanjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Cavanjack


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    While they are nice stock by bulling time in April/May they will cost another 150-200 euro and 350 more before they calf down.Add in 20 euro for mart fees and transport and by the time they calf down 17-1800 euro. Final Cull value is 12-1400 euro depending on age. Compared to the cost and turn over of a dairy cow sucklers are expensive.

    Let them at it. We need to get the fancy weanlings from somewhere.


  • #1890
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Compared to the cost and turn over of a dairy cow sucklers are expensive.

    How long did it take you to figure that one out?:)


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  • #1891
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,172 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    I bought the farm in 2002/2003. I suppose it took me 30 seconds to go for finishing drystock rather than sucklers.

    Slava Ukrainii



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