Mart Price Tracker

Are lads finally coming to their senses ,always taught Abbeyfeale was a good mart but the masses running back to mauty knew better.It must be years since big cattle were sold there in biggish numbers

There was a heifer in skibb yesterday end of April born weighing 475kg

That kind of thing pops up straight away on the department database. He shouldn't be surprised with a farm inspection after that carry on.

What Breed of Cattle is best for rough marginal land Summer grazing?

I certainly hope so

and any that die they have to cover the knackery charges an all.

C'mon, 'Caveat Emptor' - buyer be aware and all that. Just don't buy from the guy again. Learn your lesson and move on. If you have doubts about calves from a certain farmer, maybe buy a few as a trial and see how they go.

O Siamsa farming is like an other form of gambling we all loose at time, but we never speak of them, it's the rank outsider that comes in first that we happen to have a few quid on that we tell everyone about.

I bought 4 cattle in a group last year, farmers stock, 1 healed over just before Christmas. 1 lad broke his toe in the slats & had to get it cut off. He is only starting to but on flesh now. 3 lad I seen him rising on a heifer & fall & hurted himself and took him about 4 months to come right.. So the 1 lad that has been sold so far is carrying an awful lot of debts at the minute... and I don't think his two buddies are going to ease the pressure as they will be overage and doing well to grade a 2+ by the end of the year. Plus vet & meal bills. As a lad said to me the guy who sold them must have cried after them. I wouldn't be buying his stock again.

When I was very young there used to be a weekly cattle sale in the village square near to where my Grandparents lived. I remember my Grandad bringing me too it on the odd occasion. He might be selling an animal or trying to buy a milch cow, a sow or a horse. I always remember the skill that the likes of him and his generation had at judging a animal - they were stockmen and women. He thought me a lot about looking at a ponies/calves/yearlings cannon bones, the set of their shoulder, head, tail, dept of rib etc, etc.

If people can't judge an animal before them be it a calf/bullock with narrow spindle cannon bones, a high tail etc then they shouldn't be buying them and if they do then don't complain about it.

The man who made no mistakes never made anything

The dealer survive due to lads keep going back to them to be rode again, stand at the ring, or buy on line.which has killed a lot of dealers or get the mart to buy for you and pay for what’s on the docket.

Cattle Dealers would take the laces out of your Shoes and comeback for the Shoes.

What are you going doing with them. Do you intend to finish or sell as stores next spring.

If you intend to finish silage and minerals over the winter. Do not worry about rate of gain. You will get compensatory growth next spring.

If you intend to sell as spring stores remember most finishers will discount hot cattle so excessive weight gain may not pay

I had 8 Hereford heifers the back end of last year there were on grass until end of November I went to put them into the shed and could not believe how fleshy there were. Sent them to the factory within a few days as they were fit. They ranged in age between 20 to 22 months. Watch them Hereford heifers as they go over fat unknowns to you when they hit that age. Have more this year I expect some will be the same.