If that is the case why isn’t everyone beef farming rearing cattle running to contract rearing no cost of animal in that and going by that you’d have 500+ a head out of every heifer reared and only have to feed them one winter?
You probably sold them to cheap and he hopes for a re run this year.I advised u before go to the mart.Thm boys buying home calves waste too much mouthing out of them in spring when im busy then its a job getting paid
Or maybe it’s a repeat customer she has every spring that knows what he gets and they have a relationship built up. Same guy buys the freisan bulls here every spring.
We could debate as to whether Isreal's response was ott....but whelan would be fully justified with a full carpet bombing reply to that one..
Local mart not great here for selling calves. Prefer to sell out of yard calves and myself not meeting disease. No fees. No stress. Each to their own. Calves are in a pen. Buyer comes and loads them, pays me and goes. Couldnt be easier
But bass tells us he wouldn’t make any money contract rearing if he wasn’t getting 2€/hd per day
which one is it so bass ?
Il tell you why lad there failed farmers buying the wrong stock paying too much selling to cheap
Jesus..does a dark could hang over you everywhere you go?
I never said I wouldn't make money at it, I said I would want 2/ day to do it. Why should I give up my existing system which is profitable. Rearing dairy heifers would leave me with a substantial excess grass to early mid summer, and an extremely high stocked system in the autumn. It would be less profitable than my existing system 60 store to beef with a net margin of 350++/ head unless at 2/ day
There would be artificial limits to the system. Dairy farmers in general want only there stock on a unit for disease control reasons. While I did calves years ago I am not really interested in seeing them on the farm because of the extra workload. To achieve targets you would need to be moving them every 2-3 days as calves.
I have total control over the present system. Changing would cause a slight taxation issue not insurmountable. I need in the range 50+ units to stock the place at a minimum that would be a larger dairy operator and there is few enought at that level. I am not interested in AI's heifers or watching for ones bulling. If a stock bull was used I need two on the place because of the land around at home.
Ya at 2/ day I would consider it at less than that I am not interested
Are you farming over 300 owned acres?
when your out herding,, will you take a snap of these in calf hiefers you rear for under 700 for the sake of the discussion LADDDD. Myself and say my name have shown our in calf hiefers, by the time mine calf they will have cost over €1000
Thats like asking a women her age.You shud never ask that
The woman does the herding if shes in gd humor ill ask her
Not really everyone on here would be fairly open I’d imagine with what they’re farming given it’s an online forum and you’ve an anonymous identity. You must have over 300 owned acres with the way you talk about how little cost you have and the amount of cows you claim to be milking. It was a simple yes/no question not looking for a breakdown.
Maybe someone wud know me as theres not many men with the acres i own and tight ship i run id be soon identified i might as well put my pic and phonevnumber and eircode up as well
True. Or a bullshitter for evidence.
Yeah you’re dead right laddddddd sure everyone would know you then the only laddddd in Ireland that owns over 300 acres😂😂😂😂😂😂
Look all il say is i own more than 3 of my derogation dairy farmers neighbours put together il leaveve it a that im from the midlands
Maybe that new poster who's insulting everyone should just relax. Everyone is friendly in here. There's no big boasters. There's nothing to be afraid of.
Just say what you have to say in a normal voice and tone down the insults. We were all the new boy in class once.
I had montbelliarde (still can't spell that) crosses for years tho they are 90 percent Friesian now. I wonder will the flechs die off as well. When you breed back to Friesian again all your calf's will have frx on the cards. Not great for selling.
The cross will definitely be longer lasting but won't beat a Friesian for milk. I found with the Montis that you had a Great milker and could get a bad milker. Would need to do your homework on picking sires. The high ebi Friesian now a days are a more robust sturdier animal than they were before
Why in the name of fook was this thread (which was once a place for sharing views and people helping one another and offering advise) allowed to deteriorate to utter nonsensical trash.
It's called rising to the bait. You do have the power to stop it.
I read the UK dairy and milk price threads from time to time, it seems to stays on topic and is pretty much dairy farmers posting. Never see other farmers taking potshots and dragging it off topic. Weird innit?
Ok. We got a load of rain this morning. I'm tempted to start feeding silage and let them in side tonight. Anyone else feeding silage yet. Or should I battle on and hope things dry up.
Letting them in myself tonite, cows aren't happy out lately
You can use the weather Apps to see the forecasts. Pretty accurate really for 3 to 5 days.
A bunch of hungry derogation calves I suppose…
What kind of covers have you to deal with, better off letting them into light covers and keeping them in by night feed a bit of silage. High covers are only being walked into the ground in this weather at least the low covers will be cleared and some bit right for next spring and you might get a chance to somewhat properly clean out the higher covers if things ease up.
God bless them they are looking fine . Plenty of grass only very wet here
I have to disagree of robustness of high ebi all the large dairies which are much bigger than mine are useing kiwi cross there real hardy and can walk i dont like high ebi poor animals.
