Mart Price Tracker

If he has a bin he should be getting a cereals/ roughage mix blown in. Biggest problems is it's very dusty. I bought a dust coat ( basically a storeman's coat) and I use a cloth mask we hen filling the buckets.

4 kgs is a lot. I only put the on four if short of grass. I have th.on three at present and will drop it by 1/3 of a kg this week and maybe 2/3's.

A lad could not believe that the ration was sub 400/ ton he was paying 450 for a bit. However I think he buys by the pallet

Took a few photos of mine today.

Here is a good type HO bullock about 680 kgs I would say.

Here is a type I alway like to buy, black body with white legs, again I expect HO breeding. If they kill 340ish DW they grade O=. This lad should do it easy

This lad will need to go 360 DW if he is to grade he is only on ration a few days.

Here is a classic BF but HO again I suspect

Here is a a fine bullock. A HO, only on ration 2-3 days. Already carrying flesh. If you could buy them all like him you be delighted. Should flesh up nice and square and carry weight.

A similar one but not as square great bullock all the same, might squeeze into O-

While these cattle are inefficient converters at grass they will power on the weight of you can give them enough of it. A lot of these are Late a February or March bullocks or even April.

Yes two year old this spring. I buy from June to November. Early in the year cattle can be 320 kgs at purchase, the last would be up on 450 kgs if I can get them. However I bought 330 kg friesians in late October last year as they were only costing 480 euro they were may and June '21 born calves.

The black Friesian behind him with white legs is a usually a good type of Friesian as well. Might be a big frame but 3kgs of maize/hulls will put flesh on him in 8ish weeks and he should grade O-/= at that stage. Mine never get ration over the winter and I have one finishing bunch. They get fed for 6-8 weeks before slaughter

Have you a meal bin. If so price Maize and either hulls or oatfeed(husk of the oat seed) get it 70/30. There would want to be 30 euro difference between hulls and oat feed to use oatfeed.

It shows be coming in cheaper than the nut and you have no fillers. Watch them flesh up.on that

To sell, not with Friesians. First If you add 50 kg to mart weight they seldom make factory price at those figures. Add that as a small finisher I either have to hire transport or load two into the box at the time( am I glad I do not have a LC I shudder at the running costs at present). I am not sure about mart sellers fees but some marts charge different to other maybe somebody will put a figure on them.

I can haul my own cattle to the factory not cheap any longer but less than mart distance.

At present those Friesians will make 1.9-2.2/ kg. That is 1100-1150 euro. If you carry to August put them on three kgs of ration and I'd September is wet up it to 4 or 5 kgs so 80-100 euro will be ration cost at 400/ ton they will kill l320 kgs. At 4.5/ kg that is 1440 euro

Carry them on grass and silage to next May/ June and the will kill 450+ DW @ 4.5/ kg netting 2k+.

Mart dose not add up

I would only have 2-3 that would fall out of FS3. But more importantly I have right good grading with this system. I get the full benefit of compensatory growth. Feeding 2 kg/ day over the winter will be 180-200 kgs. Last winter this would have cost 75 euro. As well alot research has shown that you cannot se the benefit of winter meal feeding.