Anyone sell calves yet?
Neighbour landed 8 Fr bulls from the mart that were unsold. €30 for the lot plus the mart didn't charge commission as an incentive to take them. I called in to see them and they look much better than I expected, but it's the cost of feeding them is the question now.
Jeez, don't use grease. You don't want that in a calf's stomach.
What are the teats on your feeders like
Took 6 fr bulls to the mart yesterday. Between 2 and 3 weeks old. Made between 5 and 70 euro. Average 27 euro. Whoever bought them can't lose anyway and all the hard work done for them.
Could hang a clean empty drum over the pen, they might do their messing with that instead
Stockholm tar, crib halt or maybe a bit of grease
Just want to ask any way of stopping calves sucking each other tried iodine dirt but nothing seems to stop them
Dealer that takes some calves here isn't doing export anymore , he's buying calves for other farmers . He got a few fr bulls here today 50 each. Good to move a few on
Related to the post as this is the world we live in now.
Ye all remember the hub bub of the recent BBC panorama on a dairy farm in England recently.
Work out 8.60 a calf
Sure the lads buying them have plenty money.
What's the commission in the mart?
Just saying I saw a12 month old fr bullock selling today for 870.so that's works out at e 2.44 per day.
The farming organisations should and will fight for them as long as they can.
The other side want to close it down and at the moment with the propaganda are gradually getting their way even to EU level.
Know what you're saying tho but we live in a world of propaganda now and how to influence people without them fighting back.
We never did find the name of that French young man abusing those Irish calves in the French lairage but the footage did it's job on those of influence.
Anyhoo sold four fr bulls during the week all roughly similar but from white calves to black calves at 4 - 5 weeks 60 to 150. Average 90.
Got 50 today for 2-3 wk olds. Strong FRS 50 to 90 EUR. Weak lads 25 to 50. And jex were not bidded on. Any ways can't fill the milk tank and feed calves at the same time
We better get used to that going forward. In a few years I wouldn't be surprised if there were none full stop.
No boats going this weekend
I had them in Listowel wednesday all 4 weeks old 2 mighty fr. bulls E130 ,2 leggy f bulls 80 ,2 lightish f bulls 70 .They looked better at home
Have the exporters being buying past few days. Being told by lad who calls here as an agent no boats going today Thur and probably not Sat again. Find it hard to believe. Anyone know?
I heard they're going well enough.
I was going to carry a few fr bulls to the mart tomorrow, any updates
I'm buying them of a friend directly, no Mart, just wanted to get an idea
It depends on the weather. I ring a local dealer and he tells me if there's a boat going this week
Cork marts are starting the export sale again next week. How do you know when the boats are going. I mean how do you know when to hit a good mart
Just remember that FR bull calf prices will be depressed in marts for the rest of the week with storm Dudley and more importantly for export shipping storm Eunice that is due to hit the south of the country later in the week.
Hi base price, that's roughly what I thought myself, thanks for confirming. I passed through ennis Mart today, called in & checked the prices on lsl, saw two ch heifers make 475
Saw good square ones selling for €80 to €120 but they were nice clean well marked ones. I saw two 25do red MO bull calves selling in Carrigallen for €170 and €210.
Lads, what kinda prices are month old friesen bull calves making roughly?
There is a factory in West limerick somewhere that take calf free of charge he gets trailer loads from as far away as mayo get a lot of lads calves that are locked up with tb the calf exporters are not too happy with him apparently 🙄
The black jex of good holstein cows with a bit of size turn into great cattle to be fair, calf buyer has no issue buying them here albiet for 30-40 euro at 3 weeks old, the jex of your kiwi cross fr our a crossbreed cow are only fit for kebabs to be fair
