Bought them for €166 at 3 weeks,€150 to get them weaned to grass in may/june have got 1.5kg of meal daily since..Will go to the shed around the 1st of November..all castrated males and heifer
20c available in dawn meats
Holy God drives around to look at his stock once a week I'd say he should get away from cattle permanently, I'm a busy lad myself & I take pleasure in looking at mine morning & evening, I appreciate yours sounds like a difficult beast.
I left some cattle of to Waterford last week, 2 good HEX in the group, didn't see a bonus on the slip, I'll call them and see what they say.
Did they go in at a flat price. As well technically they have to be in the HEX or AA scheme. It's costs 100 euro to join/register.
Biggest problem at present is the difference level of bonuses paid to some farmers. Locally smaller farmers are 5c/kg behind other larger producers.
It all depends on the factory. If the plant has a Hereford contract you will get a bonus. Hereford were all the rage but now AA is the sought after animal. Burger King, specialised restraunts and supermarkets are all after AA.
The bonus is 15c/kg for HEX.
AAX bonus is 20c/kg.
Cattle need to be underage and under 400kg.
That's where I missed out, mine were closer to 500kg.
AAX got the bonus.
APB Waterford.
At least I know now.
AA was always in demand more. Up until 3 years ago Hereford stock not only outweighed AA stick but there was seriously more numbers of them. You did not get the HE bonus unless you were a Hereford prime member. AA stock numbers have climbed in the last few years because of the use of easy calving bulls. Every fast food brand do an AA burger now I think I only ever saw one doing HP burger
It's the same in restaurants for every restaurant having a HP branded beef product there is 5+ doing AA.
Bought in the mart, not sure if suckler bred.
Killed at 29 months, bought them at 9 months.
Live weight 804kg and 864kg.
Killed out 460kg and 489kg
They were big animals alright, no pictures unfortunately, I usually would have some.
Quotes for next week (bullocks)?
Out of 8 cattle 6 were 3= 2 were 2+
4.60 in slane this week all I heard
Went with the begging bowl to Larry today to get 4.60 for 6 HEX bullocks....
10c breed bonus...
Quoted 4.60 base last night for bullocks with talk of 5 cent pull in the pipeline - midlands.
Quoted 4.55 for bullocks this morning....anyone get any different?
That's their aim alright. The Irish kill puts manners on the British.
last Load of bullocks to go this week. Waiting on a price.
The whole thing is mad. 500kg stores are surely €100 more than this time last year.
It don’t add up no more I’d say there is a certain amount of big lads getting 20/30 cent more and the factories screwing the rest of us and nothing being said
Lads do ye know do dawn meats pensilase a p3 heifer that's has only a 4 day residence from a qauilty assured farm. I know she won't get any qps bonus but do they have to be on farm more than 70 says prior slaughter
Dawn don't want anything except cows that's not QA afaik.
They will accept 30days residency if previous farm QA.
I'm thinking cow price.
You can kill her straight away, there is no minimum time an animal needs to stay in your herd.
She will not be eligible for QPS as a P3, regardless of how long she is on the farm and she will be cut by 30c back off the base price offered.
Your a New poster on the beef thread hhh?
Yes p3 not eligible for quality assurance regardless of residency but no penalty either.
Long time lurker, have been posting a good bit recently.
Roughly on average how many cattle would lads on here be slaughtering per year?
30 or so here
25/30
25-30 here also
70ish finished yearly. But all on farm from 4wks of age at the latest
about 40
I’ve a 30 month old bullock with a bad foot not broken but badly sprained. Would the factory dock you for an animal like that ?
Not used of factories only a mart man normally thanks
You need a vet letter fit to travel and be killed otherwise a lame animal will be rejected. I had to do that in the past. Is it fit to travel?
