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Factory fit aa bullocks in kk today making the equivalent of 8.25 flat. Negotiate harder or go the mart.

Under age to the mart & negotiate the over age

Normally yes but in these times let them fight over them in the mart & you've option to walk away from the mart

If he was a bit cheaper and in a Kerry marts I be buying him. You will come across a bit of that stuff down there. About 6ish years ago I bought a red Charley in Castleisland around September was 30 odds months and 450 ish kgs, he hung 400+kgs DW following June, he only got ration for the 8 weeks before slaughter.

If you live in a remote part of Kerry as anywhere else you got to play the hand your delt with.

That Is about it. Another November evening in Gortalea it was not long open I bought a 4-5 lots, there was two single HEx one was a bull that was squeezed very late I say he had a massive head on him,he only did ok, the other HE was 400kgs at purchase and he killed 399 DW as an R the following September he cost 650ish euro, got no HE bonus on him, there was a bunch of 5 AA that looked like black JEX's they were 280 ish kgs I think and had to get nearly pushed into the ring off the scales, I bought them at 450 euro or maybe less, they all killed R-/O+ @about 330 kgs 12 months later they turned into great cattle, there was another 2-3 singles and AA bull and bullock as well as a belted Galoway down as an AA. One died in me about 15 months later, That is why you need to buy them cheap, they do not all work out

Again you are waffling. The reason the mart you are referring to dose well is the owner/manager gaurantees a minimum price to sellers. And yes tge weights can be poor for the seller but on tge other hand at another mart they would be at the mercy of lads around the ring on a quite day. If it's a strong mart they may go well beyond the guaranteed price. If you are down around West Cork or South and West Kerry you have little choices as few buyers go down to those marts. Sellers have choices that is all he can provide them with

He’s not really waffling though, there’s a reason lads like me in the midlands pass by 20 marts closer to us to get to Gortatlea (I assume that’s the one ye’re referencing) to buy stock and then pay a lorry to get them up the road. It’s not because Mauty will give us a clap on the back or a handshake to welcome us there, it’s because the cattle come out of there weighing nothing and they’re good value to us relative to buying local even with the haulage costs.

From standing around all day. It’s far too small a mart for the amount of stock going through it. There have been weanling sales there at this time of year that start at 3 or 4 in the day and didn’t finish until 3 in the morning. Weanlings being sold after midnight and they after being in the mart since midday or before it and some of them travelling 2 or 3 hours on a lorry to get there. I’ve bought weanlings there that came from Skibbereen and further away.

I’ve gotten friendly with a haulier that lives close to it and he brings 2 or 3 double decker artics out of it every week at weanling sale time and he’d be heading for Meath/Westmeath direction with 90% of them. I’m in Offaly and he’d have mine in the yard for me between 5 and 6 in the morning. I’m not going to give exact locations because it would be easy identify some of the buyers but it’s a 5 to 6 hour drive on the lorry to get the weanlings to their destination. There’s hardly a mart anywhere in the country further away from them men’s yards and yet they still buy all out of Gortatlea

Like @WoozieWu I think it’s madness for any lad to sell weanlings there but as a buyer I won’t complain.