Dairy Calves 2024

Be as good as any maybe. How would you be fixed if you got locked up with them before sale?

If the stock are fit at 20 months. Can’t see it paying to put them in shed again

Bang on …saying that for a while …dairy farmers can’t have it all ..dbi and this new carbon index do nothing to improve quality of calves ..slaughter of young calves correctly going …although I think some form of force majoure will remain for something like tb breakdown

Bet u do ….jaysus 😴😴😴…dairy farming is more than about the cow.if we don’t change our attitude to calves(some not all of us)calves should be left to us to rear ….

Agree ….and as for the mental health card he tried to play 😉😉😉attitudes like displayed. In that letter do rest of us farmers no favours

It'll b a vital outlet, that's if the market stays viable without the crossbred calves..

Are you a dairy farmer. are you over the age of 28-30 was your farm always in dairy 🤔 .are you not embarrassed to think that you've a god given right to kill young animals for no other reason than there expensive and troublesome.

And what exactly are you smoking. .........cos its good **** and I'd like some.

On the money ….

If you think €7 - €800 stores will be earning you enough of money to make the payments on whatever place you buy then I’d love to be in whatever dreamland you’re currently in.

As green dairies just said to another poster, “what exactly are you smoking. ………cos it’s good **** and I’d like some!”

I agree with your post clover but imo the biggest crime and problem of the lot is that it was let to get this way with small narrow. Runs of cows that produce a very poor off spring. This idea was pushed as the easy way to get rich and build big numbers and that any lathacho can look after them and milk them.......... farmers that are producing calves that are very poor quality it's your own problem nobody else's. The fact that the farmers in question are willing to slaughter them brings into question the quality of care before slaughter

I have brought calves home from the mart with no bid for them. Sold them for 700 to 800 the following year. It's not all about figures for me. I want a little retirement/hobby farm for when I hang up my clusters.

Shortsighted one dimensional thinking from our advisory bodies and a blind fascination with kiwi dairying above anything else has us here

Renting land tax free won't be there forever. If they did stop it it would probably reduce the amount of land being intensively farmed which is what they want anyway

I keep from posting on these threads as it's always the same roundabouts being posted. If the beef lads want good calves go to the farms and source them, no point moaning again and again about jex in marts, how dairy farmers don't feed bull calves etc etc, it's the same stuff just a different thread over and over. Rant over

My point is every thread on this turns into a dairy farmer slating exercise, blaming teagasc, farmers journal etc. Let those who have crap calves deal with them and deal with the consequences. No point rehashing it every few weeks under a different title.

And will there be any different posts than the ones that have been in the other numerous threads? No point losing sleep over what other people are at, it's their problem