Kerry holstein friesian breeders sale of heifers by Taaffe under way in Gortatlea...
Any of them making 1000?
Which app?
Lsl auctions
Watching them now. They are a credit to the farmers who bred them. Great milk and lovely looking. They are well back in prices, when you consider the quality
Absolutely. €1800 a piece would fill a trailer for you.
Fabulous looking stock.
They'd get a fair shock if they were brought home to this house.
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
What kind of money did they average? Had they ebi figures too ?
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
I’d of said back an easy 500 …that heifer you mentioned. Was a beaut alright ….I’ve a few Conway calves this spring whos a renegade son …they look the part so far anyway
Have renegade heifers milking this spring their some animals to pump out milk, quiet as lambs too in the parlour
I mentioned last week that I had the vet with a couple of cows one mastitis and the other is a blind cow that developed pneumonia it looks like both will pull through but both are practically dry.i have too many cows anyway so I was thinking today that I could ship them off to an out block but will they stay dry and give me a chance to flesh them a little .withdrawal period negates factory
Did you check for mycoplasma
Ihfa have more sales coming up in March. I never buy anything but I'm tempted with the bargains available....
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
They'd do fine here anyway. They are not pure holstein
did some lads not show up or did they take the stock home seems that way from looking at the catalogue
Yeah I totted up the ones that were sold and they averaged over 2000 per head- was there a lot unsold or did they not show up
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
did a suck calf make 1300 I didn't see the sale live
Watched some of it. A lot unsold at €17-€1850 while I was watching.
There was probably no one bidding, farmer told the auctioneer the reserve and auctioneer bid it up himself.
I saw George Chandler doing that and the farmer decided to take less than the reserve,
Everyone knew of course what was after happening but it was embarassing for George
Kerry's latest forward price down to 38 from 43 last month.
Kingston had 7- 8 heifers in it, I don't think any sold the last few I seen weren't even bid on, where bid to a 1000 euro nice stock but really poor solids
If that comes to be the true picture its time to pull the gate.
Back in the 80 s friend mine decided he was going to start upgrading the herd and went to a local pedigree sale and bought a heifer.this herd had bulls in ai and all .he had spoken to the owner and he had picked out a heifer that the owner promised him would do 8 gallons he bought her and brought her home but all she was doing was just over 5 gallons so he rang the owner and the question he was asked was how much was he feeding her. He said 12 lbs but the owner told she should get 25 lbs if he wanted 8 gallons.that same herd is now crossbred.i have been to a good few sales over the years and its always the same,stock tuned up to the last by some auctioneers agent,a few buyers down from the "north",the auctioneer would be blowing once in a lifetime opportunity,famous cow family ,fabulous stock etc but at the end of the day their chaff is no different to your chaff.
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
The thing is it's horses for courses. Those North American holsteins wouldn't be much use to a man expecting to run them on grass only.
On the other hand was talking to the account from a nationwide firm that do a lot of farmers accounts and he said that it was the Jersey cross bred herds that suffered the biggest production drop last year. But I suppose the power wasn't in the grass and those lads wouldn't feed meal or indeed those type of cows wouldn't respond to meal feeding.
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
