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Calf price chitchat

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    #1802
    Cavanjack
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    Base price wrote: »
    The feckin weather can't accommodate our calving pattern :rolleyes:

    Are calf exports down this year due to the weather?


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    #1803
    Hard Knocks
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    moll3 wrote: »
    wh bulls 180/300
    aa bulls 80/240

    What’s the heifers like for comparison


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    #1804
    3 the square
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    moll3 wrote: »
    wh bulls 180/300
    aa bulls 80/240

    Any fr bulls there ?


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    #1805
    moll3
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    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    What’s the heifers like for comparison

    heifers were nearly the same money


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    #1806
    moll3
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    3 the square wrote: »
    Any fr bulls there ?

    ya loads from 5 euro to 150
    and as much white heads as ive seen in a long time there today


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    #1807
    alps
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    Anyone sell shipping calves lately...first batch to shipper here today if we can agree price..


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    #1808
    RightTurnClyde
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    alps wrote: »
    Anyone sell shipping calves lately...first batch to shipper here today if we can agree price..

    All the fr bull are for shipping here. €40 - €55, . They need to be over 2 weeks, over 50 kgs and have a cover on them. They're not mad about Frx calves


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    #1809
    oxjkqg
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    Whats a limousine AI from British friesian worth, young calves, bull and heifer? Have a lad looking for 1 to put under a cow that lost a calf


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    #1810
    Bass Reeves
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    oxjkqg wrote: »
    Whats a limousine AI from British friesian worth, young calves, bull and heifer? Have a lad looking for 1 to put under a cow that lost a calf

    Just pick a figure out of the sky. Lads that buy calves to put under cows generally do not work on what an calf is . They prefer to pay 400 euro for a calf that will make 650 off the cow that buy a Fr for 50 euro that would make 350-400 off the cow.

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #1811
    K.G.
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    alps wrote: »
    Anyone sell shipping calves lately...first batch to shipper here today if we can agree price..

    Be ware they might be with you abit.20 euro for dutch.40 from wicklow but they d want to be good and would have that 40 e in their belly


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    #1812
    josephsoap
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    https://www.donedeal.ie/view/24409907

    €500 for day old CH calf :-O


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    #1813
    atlantic mist
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    alps wrote: »
    Anyone sell shipping calves lately...first batch to shipper here today if we can agree price..

    the two shipers around here are quoting
    45 for 2 week old, he feeds them himself for a week before boat
    70 for 3 week old calves that go straight to the boat


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    #1814
    liosnagceann75
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    First calves of 2020. 2 X aax bulls €295. 2 X aax heifers €230. 5 weeks old


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    #1815
    Murang
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    Any one in Bandon today how were prices


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    #1816
    Castlekeeper
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    liosnagceann75 wrote: »
    First calves of 2020. 2 X aax bulls €295. 2 X aax heifers €230. 5 weeks old

    Good prices, must be good calves, where did you sell?


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    #1817
    DukeCaboom
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    Murang wrote: »
    Any one in Bandon today how were prices

    2k calves. Ya good trade for everything. Dealers giving out they had no value. You'd put together a nice bunch of fr bulls for about €70.


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    #1818
    liosnagceann75
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    Castlekeeper wrote: »
    Good prices, must be good calves, where did you sell?

    Their good calves to be fair. I was disappointed with the heifers. Thought they were better calves than the bulls. They were sold in Castleisland. They left the yard at 7.30am. I always get someone to draw and sell them for me.


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    #1819
    3 the square
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    liosnagceann75 wrote: »
    Their good calves to be fair. I was disappointed with the heifers. Thought they were better calves than the bulls. They were sold in Castleisland. They left the yard at 7.30am. I always get someone to draw and sell them for me.

    How does that workout does he work for the mart or something??


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    #1820
    liosnagceann75
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    3 the square wrote: »
    How does that workout does he work for the mart or something??

    He's a local farmer who transports calves to the mart every Monday. He might have 2 or 3 loads every Monday. At €10 cash a calf it's not a bad pay day


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    #1821
    Bass Reeves
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    liosnagceann75 wrote: »
    He's a local farmer who transports calves to the mart every Monday. He might have 2 or 3 loads every Monday. At €10 cash a calf it's not a bad pay day

    I do not pay anyone cash. Nobody pays a farmer cash in beef or milk everything goes through the books. 10 in cash is costing 16-20/ head

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #1822
    3 the square
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    I do not pay anyone cash. Nobody pays a farmer cash in beef or milk everything goes through the books. 10 in cash is costing 16-20/ head

    Maybe it's the mart that pays the transport man cash .


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    #1823
    Mooooo
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    Lad collects here and sells and his fee is taken off cheque along with mart fees. Comes to 18 euro everthing included I think. Awaiting the first one from this year yet


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    #1824
    Bass Reeves
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    3 the square wrote: »
    Maybe it's the mart that pays the transport man cash .

    No mart will pay cash either. I have not seen a cash transactions in a mart.in 10 years. Mo

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #1825
    DukeCaboom
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    Mooooo wrote: »
    Lad collects here and sells and his fee is taken off cheque along with mart fees. Comes to 18 euro everthing included I think. Awaiting the first one from this year yet

    Also you get a better lot number, those lads get the numbers on a Thurs or Friday before.


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    #1826
    Albert Johnson
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    No mart will pay cash either. I have not seen a cash transactions in a mart.in 10 years. Mo

    Any mart I do business in will pay cash out for haulage ect. I'm assuming that for them to have it that there's still an occasional customer paying with cash. I've often collected money out of the office that's stopped off seller's check's if they hadn't cash on them when I lifted the cattle. As another poster mentioned the haulier will often get better numbers as they're regulars. A cashless society isn't something I'd be anyway in favour of tbh.


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    #1827
    Say my name
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    Jjameson wrote: »
    I was looking into the ring for a good while. A real good friesian calf €225.

    Bejaysus I bet that €225. €250 this week for one with montbeliarde back breeding.
    Fr out of frx on the card.
    Anyone know of any good fr x mo bulls for sale suitable for breeding? :pac:


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    #1828
    lab man
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    Say my name wrote:
    Bejaysus I bet that €225. €250 this week for one with montbeliarde back breeding. Fr out of frx on the card. Anyone know of any good fr x mo bulls for sale suitable for breeding?

    they a great bucket reared calf


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    #1829
    Say my name
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    lab man wrote: »
    they a great bucket reared calf

    Is that a question?

    If it is then there's a lot of variety in the breed just like fr or Holstein.
    You can get the best of both worlds or the worst.
    Generally though a Monty with a whitehead will command more than a freisian. It usually though will finish better than a hol fr being that there's no usual Jersey or hol extremes in the monty's which can be hidden in the black and whites and all sold under the freisian bull calf banner.
    I wouldn't be a fan of bucket fed anything.
    There has to be a teat to get the benefits.


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    #1830
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Say my name wrote: »
    Is that a question?

    If it is then there's a lot of variety in the breed just like fr or Holstein.
    You can get the best of both worlds or the worst.
    Generally though a Monty with a whitehead will command more than a freisian. It usually though will finish better than a hol fr being that there's no usual Jersey or hol extremes in the monty's which can be hidden in the black and whites and all sold under the freisian bull calf banner.
    I wouldn't be a fan of bucket fed anything.
    There has to be a teat to get the benefits.

    Whats your calf rearing regime? 250 is big money


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    #1831
    rushvalley
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    Say my name wrote: »
    Bejaysus I bet that €225. €250 this week for one with montbeliarde back breeding.
    Fr out of frx on the card.
    Anyone know of any good fr x mo bulls for sale suitable for breeding? :pac:

    Might have a pbnr Monty for your breeding 2021 season if you've any interest closer to the time? 🀠


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