Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Lsl auctions

Absolutely. €1800 a piece would fill a trailer for you.

Had my eye on a calf ….opens a few days post last night ….neighbour had few reactors ….my herd restricted till I test so I’m out …some serious stock been sold at I won’t say small money compared to what they’d usually go for it is small …still far in excess to what s been sold thru most marts

Only standout animal that made good money was the smasher of a white renegade heifer at 3450 i think, he's throwing some stock...

The two red heifer calves where a admiration aswell

Would they be back 700 plus on last years sale as a average, the life is been sucked out of the trade with the weather at the minute

Have renegade heifers milking this spring their some animals to pump out milk, quiet as lambs too in the parlour

Did you check for mycoplasma

That pure holstein stuff is to soft most come from tmr herds better to buy from real commercial farms some of the stuff at them sales wouldnt last a week on my farm

did some lads not show up or did they take the stock home seems that way from looking at the catalogue

I’d love to buy some of your stock they sound awesome

could you by any chance put up a few pics of your best milk recorded cows- im willing to pay savage money for 9000litre plus cows with 5% fat and 4% protein

Watched some of it. A lot unsold at €17-€1850 while I was watching.

Kerry's latest forward price down to 38 from 43 last month.

If that comes to be the true picture its time to pull the gate.

It's a bizarre situation re Irish holstein herds, breeding cinderalla cows, for type/litres and totally disregarding solids/health/fertility that the Americans are now solely focusing on in their commercial operations, they are going for a smaller hardier type holstein with solids thats still pumping out the milk...

Had to laugh at aidan in the comic re maintance figures and a minus 15 bull would breed a 700kgs plus cow, its bulls***t average mature weight of cows here would be 600kgs and my maintance index would be -15....

Renegade for instance daughter proofs are 13661 litres at 4.3bf/3.3pr, in our around 1050kgsms, its unbelievable the genetic gain in solids in America the past decade but you'll still have the icbf/journal running down international bulls like above

Who's running cows on grass only, over a ton of meal is going in to most cows on farms along with maize etc on the shoulders of the year, crossing your average Irish holstein back to a good solid American bull like westcoast river will give you a brilliant animal, that will work away with zero issues where cows are been fed correctly all through their lactation and will go back in calf h