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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #1622
    Tora Bora
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Tora Bora


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got a big surprise today, was callibrating feeders in parlour... they are supposed to give out 1kg per pull... some where giving out 2.2kg:eek: while one was giving out .5kg.... also got my goal tonight have lost 3 stone !

    You must have been feeding out of the feeder dishing out 2.2kgs.:D


  • #1623
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    joined slimming world, theres a lad in our group has lost nearly 12 stone in the last year:eek:


    Jaysus:eek: Fair play to him. He's lost over a Karen!


  • #1624
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    whelan1 wrote: »
    also got my goal tonight have lost 3 stone !


    Well done. That sort of weight loss can be completly life changing.


  • #1625
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Yes, fair play Whelan1. That's an excellent result. Keep it up. Do you mind me asking how you managed it, eating right or more exercise, or a combination?


  • #1626
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,036 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan1 wrote: »
    joined slimming world, theres a lad in our group has lost nearly 12 stone in the last year:eek:

    Yikes!! - a whole new wardrobe for that lad:eek:;)


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  • #1627
    jeff greene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 733 ✭✭✭jeff greene


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Yikes!! - a whole new wardrobe for that lad:eek:;)

    Wouldn't throw the old ones out yet, most rebound after such rapid weigh loss, unfortunately.

    Well done Whelan, a great achievement, keep it up now.


  • #1628
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jeff greene wrote: »
    Wouldn't throw the old ones out yet, most rebound after such rapid weigh loss, unfortunately.

    Well done Whelan, a great achievement, keep it up now.
    apparently men are more motivated than women and the weight comes off quicker, theres another lad has 7 stone gone since february, its a total change of what you eat, i am never hungry, yet can have my few glasses of wine etc and still loose weight, feel like a new person,


  • #1629
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Men are just more competitive too. I work with a few lads who are continously competing with each other to loose weight. They have bets to see who can loose the most before Christmas etc. Their delight is not in loosing weight, but beating the other guy.


  • #1630
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    was talking to a lad this morning who said there was a red/blue heifer at the mart the other day, sounded a bit like karens one, it was 330kg and made €990


  • #1631
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Men are just more competitive too. I work with a few lads who are continously competing with each other to loose weight. They have bets to see who can loose the most before Christmas etc. Their delight is not in loosing weight, but beating the other guy.
    thats true, the guys are our group are far worse than the women , they get in a mood if they are not down in weight


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  • #1632
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    was talking to a lad this morning who said there was a red/blue heifer at the mart the other day, sounded a bit like karens one, it was 330kg and made €990

    She's in Mohill Wed, was offered 1000 in the field the other day so she's coming home if she doesn't make more!


  • #1633
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Karen112 wrote: »
    She's in Mohill Wed, was offered 1000 in the field the other day so she's coming home if she doesn't make more!
    what weight is she?


  • #1634
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Oh, did anyone see the heifer that was 400kg and made €1560 in Ballina?? I missed her down the yard as I was over the bull side. Think she's gone for showing as I know the guy who bought her.


  • #1635
    warfie35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭warfie35


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got a big surprise today, was callibrating feeders in parlour... they are supposed to give out 1kg per pull... some where giving out 2.2kg:eek: while one was giving out .5kg.... also got my goal tonight have lost 3 stone !

    That is fantastic, congrats


  • #1636
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    Dairygold have a clearance sale this weekend, all sorts of stuff in from the branches, transport boxes, gates, tanks, spreaders, fencing wire, all sorts of stuff.

    They had some good cement mixers down from €800 to €400 but I was too late, they'd sold out at five past eight.

    Mental in there.


  • #1637
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got a big surprise today, was callibrating feeders in parlour... they are supposed to give out 1kg per pull... some where giving out 2.2kg:eek: while one was giving out .5kg.... also got my goal tonight have lost 3 stone !
    Fair play whelan1. Its not easy. And the cows will be joining you on the weight loss programme now they are back by half in the trough


  • #1638
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    wil be interesting to see the milk production when they are getting less meal


  • #1639
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Went to gort lastnight with the intention of buying a few heifers. Prices were pure mad. As dear as I have ever seen. Went after 2 heifers. A blonde out of a sim 340kg and I went to 905 on her and didnt get her and a pb charolais 340kg went to 970 on her and she made 1000 and to be honest she was nothing special. The simmentals were completly out of reach and I wasnt one bit impressed with the quality of them. Most of them were way over done with meal with big lumps of fat around their pin bones. Seen a few of them around the 400kg mark making 1300 and year and a halfs making 1500+. There was no recession there last night anyway!!!


  • #1640
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Redz,
    Was that an ordinary evening sale or a special breeding heifer sale?


  • #1641
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Redz,
    Was that an ordinary evening sale or a special breeding heifer sale?

    The annual simmental sale. The prices would frighten you!!


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  • #1642
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    what weight is she?


    320ish kg or so.


  • #1643
    Pharaoh1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Pharaoh1


    Mart prices seem to have gone crazy in the last week or so.
    Sold a few bullocks myself yesterday and was in a state of shock in the box.
    Eg..A couple of reasonable CHX bullocks 417kgs made 1035 one of them not even a year old, another 525kgs 1200 euro.
    I saw pure holstein bullocks around 500kgs were easily making 400+ euro along with the weight.
    Cattle were up at least 100 euro a head in the last fortnight.


  • #1644
    BeeDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭BeeDI


    Pharaoh1 wrote: »
    Mart prices seem to have gone crazy in the last week or so.
    Sold a few bullocks myself yesterday and was in a state of shock in the box.
    Eg..A couple of reasonable CHX bullocks 417kgs made 1035 one of them not even a year old, another 525kgs 1200 euro.
    I saw pure holstein bullocks around 500kgs were easily making 400+ euro along with the weight.
    Cattle were up at least 100 euro a head in the last fortnight.

    Every thing we hear and read says cattle prices rising by the day all this year. I dont really think they are up anything much since last February.
    Looking at a docket I have for stock sold mid Feb, all charolais and all from stock bull, so wouldnt be world beater by any stretch.

    Bulls.
    400 kgs €1,025 (10 months, but capable of going into massive weight)
    2 at 315kgs €815
    2 at 330kgs €870
    2 at 335 kgs €855

    Heifers

    2 at 295kgs €770
    2 at 270kgs €715
    1 at 230kgs €675

    All March / April 2010.

    I dont expect to do any better with this years stock, based on what I see in mart, these days, but I have to wait and see.
    Yet, if I believed the IFJ, I should be getting another €250 a head???


  • #1645
    Pharaoh1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭Pharaoh1


    BeeDI wrote: »
    Every thing we hear and read says cattle prices rising by the day all this year. I dont really think they are up anything much since last February.
    Looking at a docket I have for stock sold mid Feb, all charolais and all from stock bull, so wouldnt be world beater by any stretch.

    Bulls.
    400 kgs €1,025 (10 months, but capable of going into massive weight)
    2 at 315kgs €815
    2 at 330kgs €870
    2 at 335 kgs €855

    Heifers

    2 at 295kgs €770
    2 at 270kgs €715
    1 at 230kgs €675

    All March / April 2010.

    I dont expect to do any better with this years stock, based on what I see in mart, these days, but I have to wait and see.
    Yet, if I believed the IFJ, I should be getting another €250 a head???

    Take your point and I saw a couple of nice Jan born Lim bull weanlings go yesterday for small enough money 420kgs 850 euro and 340kgs 720
    but by way of comparison I was looking at my own records and bought a 410kg CHX bullock in April for 740 compared to the similar I sold yesterday for over the thousand.
    I also sold that bullock a couple of weeks ago he gained 180kg which i was a bit disappointed with tbh but at 590kgs he made 1235 which was almost 500 euro "margin" for just summer grazing.
    He was a bit of an exception really but I have averaged a margin of more than 400 euro per head for my summer grazing hobby which is miles ahead of anything I did previously ( 286 euro was my best up to now) and while weight gain (approx 220kgs) was pretty good most of this is due to high sale price.


  • #1646
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    lepto'd all the cows this evening, wrecked now, having a nice glass of wine... cheers:)


  • #1647
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Karen112 wrote: »
    Oh, did anyone see the heifer that was 400kg and made €1560 in Ballina?? I missed her down the yard as I was over the bull side. Think she's gone for showing as I know the guy who bought her.

    I had a red BB heifer in Mohill on wednesday night. Born on June 5th. 215kg. Made Eur730 and a bb bull that was born on june 10th, 250kg and made Eur785. I was one of very few people in Mohill the other night that got over Eur 3 per kg for Blues. Had a couple of older BB heifers and Bulls that did not do as good. They still were better prices than last year, but not as good as the yellow charolais on wednesday night ;) Sure you can't win all the time, but you have to hedge your bets :D


  • #1648
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    reilig wrote: »
    I had a red BB heifer in Mohill on wednesday night. Born on June 5th. 215kg. Made Eur730 and a bb bull that was born on june 10th, 250kg and made Eur785. I was one of very few people in Mohill the other night that got over Eur 3 per kg for Blues. Had a couple of older BB heifers and Bulls that did not do as good. They still were better prices than last year, but not as good as the yellow charolais on wednesday night ;) Sure you can't win all the time, but you have to hedge your bets :D

    It depends on who is buying tbh. Are you happy with the prices at least? The CH are a ferocious trade, all bull beef men want them.


  • #1649
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Karen112 wrote: »
    It depends on who is buying tbh. Are you happy with the prices at least? The CH are a ferocious trade, all bull beef men want them.

    I was happy with them. I got better prices than than the same calves off the same cows as last year. I fed 25% less meal this year too. Serious buying for the CH allright - especially the lighter ones. It was mad to see a big line of dealers along the chutes looking at cattle as they came in. Then, the whole lot of the space around the rail of the ring was taken up about 30 minutes before the auctioneer started.


  • #1650
    wiggy123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭wiggy123


    mad prices at mo--for most type sof stock.. can it last????
    if not--some men will be stung big time!!


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  • #1651
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Karen112 wrote: »
    It depends on who is buying tbh. Are you happy with the prices at least? The CH are a ferocious trade, all bull beef men want them.

    Charolais are flying alright, sold a few stores today, best was a yellow 500kg E1150. Happy enough.


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