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Calf price chitchat

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    #1682
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    17 calves sent home from bandon yesterday. Starvation. Same lad milks about 120 cows.)

    Rightly so followed with being prosecuted and fined with it , would be proper order !

    The few pound in giving few gallons of milk to a calf won’t make or break anyone!

    There’s right and wrong - and as a neighbour said lately be responsible for what u breed!


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    #1683
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    Millionaire only not wrote: »
    Rightly so followed with being prosecuted and fined with it , would be proper order !

    The few pound in giving few gallons of milk to a calf won’t make or break anyone!

    There’s right and wrong - and as a neighbour said lately be responsible for what u breed!

    Hungry farmer, hungry calf.


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    #1684
    mf240
    Registered Users Posts: 4,851 ✭✭✭mf240


    Millionaire only not wrote: »

    There’s right and wrong - and as a neighbour said lately be responsible for what u breed!

    It would reduce homeless crisis too.!


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    #1685
    atlantic mist
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭atlantic mist


    3-4 week old friesian averaged 100 in new ross today
    plenty not sold
    stopping taking jersey cross calves as no one will bid on them


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    #1686
    whelan2
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    Any word on any boats going? Plenty of crap prices in local mart during the week


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    #1687
    visatorro
    Registered Users Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭visatorro


    whelan2 wrote:
    Any word on any boats going? Plenty of crap prices in local mart during the week


    Is the early bubble burst?! Iv nothing gone yet.


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    #1688
    whelan2
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    visatorro wrote: »
    Is the early bubble burst?! Iv nothing gone yet.
    No buyers for young fr calves in Ardee on tuesday


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    #1689
    Water John
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    Big sale in Macroom today. Batch of Fr bulls €58/hd.


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    #1690
    DukeCaboom
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    Fr bulls for f all yesterday in bandon. The main buyer had a cracking pen of calves @ €50.(he'd 430 calves altogether)
    Boat cancelled today and a doubt Thursday. Aa & hex bulls a good trade still 240 ish for a straight one.
    Saying that two lads had a row over 3 good fr bulls that made €140. Saw the same 3 make €22 earlier in the morning.


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    #1691
    whelan2
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    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Fr bulls for f all yesterday in bandon. The main buyer had a cracking pen of calves @ €50.(he'd 430 calves altogether)
    Boat cancelled today and a doubt Thursday. Aa & hex bulls a good trade still 240 ish for a straight one.
    Saying that two lads had a row over 3 good fr bulls that made €140. Saw the same 3 make €22 earlier in the morning.

    Oh has a load of steel on a trailer here for nearly 2 weeks it has to be lifted off on a building site in Dublin with a crane. So I am being guided by if he's allowed to unload if the boats will be going ....must be a big backlog of calves on farm now


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    #1692
    jaymla627
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Oh has a load of steel on a trailer here for nearly 2 weeks it has to be lifted off on a building site in Dublin with a crane. So I am being guided by if he's allowed to unload if the boats will be going ....must be a big backlog of calves on farm now

    Fr bulls will be unsaleable the next 3 weeks unless their very well done and 3 weeks plus, shouldn't come as any bit of a shock to lads was always going to happen they can either hold on to them our basically give them away if buyers can even be found


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    #1693
    whelan2
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    jaymla627 wrote: »
    Fr bulls will be unsaleable the next 3 weeks unless their very well done and 3 weeks plus, shouldn't come as any bit of a shock to lads was always going to happen they can either hold on to them our basically give them away if buyers can even be found

    I'm testing next week will test young calves and hold onto them for a few weeks I think. I had good fr bull calves in mart last week and got 10 euro for them. Alot of calves got no bid. I wasn't bringing them home


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    #1694
    _Brian
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    How are HEX calves selling ?


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    #1695
    whelan2
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    _Brian wrote: »
    How are HEX calves selling ?

    Dont think there was any in Ardee last week


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    #1696
    Bass Reeves
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    I heard that a few marts will not accept JEX calves for sale as they are failing get s bid.

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #1697
    whelan2
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    I heard that a few marts will not accept JEX calves for sale as they are failing get s bid.

    Fr not getting bids too.


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    #1698
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,274 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Fr not getting bids too.

    Ys but lads will still take them away unless they are badly done

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #1699
    jaymla627
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I'm testing next week will test young calves and hold onto them for a few weeks I think. I had good fr bull calves in mart last week and got 10 euro for them. Alot of calves got no bid. I wasn't bringing them home

    Put back breeding here 3 weeks so only getting into calving now, has been a godsend with the way the spring is turning out, have a buyer for all my calves too but he cant take them till after paddy's day at a minimum of two weeks old so its working out well


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    #1700
    _Brian
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    I heard that a few marts will not accept JEX calves for sale as they are failing get s bid.

    You can’t blame lads not buying them or the marts not wanting to clog the place up with calves that won’t sell. having 70-80 jex calves on a busy mart day just takes up space and slows down the sales.


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    #1701
    patsy_mccabe
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    I heard that a few marts will not accept JEX calves for sale as they are failing get s bid.

    At those prices, you might be shuffling into ringside yourself. :rolleyes:

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #1702
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,967 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Saw some BB x JEX calves
    Would they be good heifers to rare, would they stay small?


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    #1703
    Bass Reeves
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    At those prices, you might be shuffling into ringside yourself. :rolleyes:

    Not until lads stop bringing them to stores at that stage For bull's 6 weeks old will be free and 100euro with them if the boats stop

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #1704
    jaymla627
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Saw some BB x JEX calves
    Would they be good heifers to rare, would they stay small?

    Depends on cow, if your talking a 450 kgs mature cow the resulting calf will be small enough when it matures of a 550 kgs mature cow it will be perfect, often cross the jex to bb here and they come into lovely animals


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    #1705
    whelan2
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    Boat going at the weekend. Calves to be over 50 kg


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    #1706
    Gawddawggonnit
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Boat going at the weekend. Calves to be over 50 kg

    55kg is the minimum here...sent off 3 sets of twins last week, NrxBB, €18 for the 6 of them. He wouldn’t take them until over 55kg, so they were over a month old.
    Each set of twins were m/f calves.

    Crucified with twins with these last three months.


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    #1707
    Timmaay
    Registered Users Posts: 11,394 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Have a tidy BB off a ho/fr cow, what's he worth?


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    #1708
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Have a tidy BB off a ho/fr cow, what's he worth?

    If you were to describe a springing heifer down here is tidy twud be a polite way of saying small lol. BB can depend on the day really. Could be 150 to 350 age dependant but dunno in today's market


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    #1709
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    Was up country on a factory run earlier called into Nenagh mart for grub on way home. A lot of young light fr bulls failing to get a bid. Good hex bull to 290 with most around 240/250 back to 200.

    Saw a couple of plainish yearling bulls in the weanling ring and there-a certainly a twist in them friesian bull calves at to days prices.


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    #1710
    stanflt
    Registered Users Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Sold 8 in Carnaross yesterday- avg 18€ after commission

    3 weeks ago one Fresian bull calf was making the same money


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    #1711
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,274 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    orm0nd wrote: »
    Was up country on a factory run earlier called into Nenagh mart for grub on way home. A lot of young light fr bulls failing to get a bid. Good hex bull to 290 with most around 240/250 back to 200.

    Saw a couple of plainish yearling bulls in the weanling ring and there-a certainly a twist in them friesian bull calves at to days prices.

    Says he who sells FR calves, trying to talk up the market

    Slava Ukrainii



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