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True, smb is very quick and usually handy numbers but quality would be lacking, most go to ennis

Like the hurlers Patsy lol

What minimum weight/age weanling would be properly weaned? Most will cost in excess of €3 a kg I suppose!

I feel that I am being unfairly treated my posts are being laughed at. I am looking for advice and information but you are making a joke of me.

People are just calling it as it is.

About 15 years ago there was a scheme where weanlings that were weaned 2 weeks or something before sale received a grant. The sellers that actually weaned (not just on paper) took hit around the ring from buyers because the milk shine was gone off there cattle. So obviously majority buyers don't care.

End of the day it's the salers right to present there products in whatever way they want and the buyers right to buy or not.

I never get this school of thought that that follows through to meat processors that they have to take product and compensate you for your costs.

Automatically taking your product and compensating you for your costs is a farmer thing If you were in any other business you would have to get a profitable outlet for what you produce. We are lucky that we are a protected species.We cry wolf and we get cash.

I’d say most weanlings sold in marts aren’t properly weaned. Ideally weanlings will have got at least two worm doses, have been fully vaccinated against Pneumonia and be eating nuts/ration before they’re sold. Yeah, a lot of weanlings are stressed when sold you only have to walk into a weanling sale in the Autumn and hear the bawling to see this. I wouldn’t say prices are excessive, it costs a lot of money and takes plenty of time and work to produce them, Sucker cow numbers are falling for good reason. There’s always plenty of value to be had buying weanlings but you’ll have to spend time going to/watching mart sales or getting someone you can trust to do this for you.

Buying weanlings in the Autumn and selling in the Spring can be profitable, there’s money in everything if you’re good enough at it. As for selling unweaned calves being unfair to buyers, everything to do with beef/suckler farming is unfair unfortunately. If buyers aren’t happy they could always try producing their own calves.

Would there be many of this years April/May or around that born weanlings running though marts at the moment?

I sell mine straight off the cow as mentioned above they have the "milk shine" but on the flip side if they were properly weaned you might have repeat customers the following year if less chance of sickness and used to eating meal.

Horses for courses

Mine be straight of the cow too here but they'd be on creep since 1st week of August. I sell all bulls and keep heifers over the winter and I notice that it's only the cow that roars. The weanlings heifers be more roaring at me for the nuts in the morning than for the cow.

I know when I was in the mart last week there is a lot of hungry looking calves that never saw a nut in comparison to previous years

In my case the weight gain from creeping more than paid for itself (i weigh at starting & before sale)

From talking to neighbors who go to the mart every week, they were saying weights are well back and so is the price.

Another suckler clearance,

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/clearance-sale-of-suckler-herd/32676447

2 in Carnew mart alone in the next 10 days.