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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #3242
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Was flicking through the Journal earlier, I don't get it every week, just when the notion takes me...

    Under the MARTWATCH section there was an article on "Demand for calves Increases"..
    Had a scan through as I'd be interested in calves but think they are over priced at the moment..

    They quoted that HEX Heifers were sold from €209-€306..
    Presuming the €306 were the pick on offer at some magical mart... Can anyone direct me to a mart where I'd pick up good HEX Heifers at €300 ?? Over in the Calf Price thread they seem to be making €400+

    Maybe down south, I presume this is where dealers and the lads on DD source calves from...??

    PS:
    If anyone has nice HEX Heifers going for €300 I'd be interested in them..


  • #3243
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    was at ardee mart last week, prices for calves are crazy, i had assumed when quota year ended there would be a glut of claves and price would go down, price has gone up... crazy:eek:


  • #3244
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i had assumed when quota year ended there would be a glut of claves and price would go down
    That's what we had been hoping for but no sign of it ending...

    Don't get me wrong I'm glad to see strong prices, it's good for the industry as a whole..
    However.. Some guys are buying calves just to keep numbers up rather than their being any profit in them unless we see significant further increases in cattle prices..


  • #3245
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    whelan1 wrote: »
    remember years ago when i was young:rolleyes: my dad was away for the night went to check cows and there was a cow down, couldnt use the flutter valve so i gave her 2x400ml bottles of calciject with a 20ml syringe:o did the job, she was up the next morning but was like a pin cushion too
    did that once myself except used 2 needles-one in the cow another in the bottle


  • #3246
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Got the first few cows and calves out to grass yesterday after a clear test ;)
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  • #3247
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    was at ardee mart last week, prices for calves are crazy, i had assumed when quota year ended there would be a glut of claves and price would go down, price has gone up... crazy:eek:

    Do you think that maybe they will hit the Market once weaned on meal and at grass?


  • #3248
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Got the first few cows and calves out to grass yesterday after a clear test ;)
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    great stock


  • #3249
    Suckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Suckler


    leg wax wrote: »
    great stock

    +1 - Iwas gonna stick up a few snaps of a few our own lot but I think I'll hold off now!


  • #3250
    porter shark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭porter shark


    nice stuff rich. whats the breeding?


  • #3251
    johnpawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭johnpawl


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Got the first few cows and calves out to grass yesterday after a clear test ;)

    Quality stock there. What age are the calves?


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  • #3252
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    porter shark wrote: »
    nice stuff rich. whats the breeding?

    Hows things PS , the 3 cows in the pictures are Blue X Simmental/Fresian . The 3 calves are heifers , two by Ballyfinn Borat , and one by Boherad Bullseye both from Dovea .
    Three cows back in calf to blues , two inseminated to PG Canadian Club , and one to VDV (dovea).


  • #3253
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    johnpawl wrote: »
    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Got the first few cows and calves out to grass yesterday after a clear test ;)

    Quality stock there. What age are the calves?

    Thanks jp , two of them are jus gone 6 months . And the best one of them 3 is 4and half months .


  • #3254
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    johnpawl wrote: »

    Thanks jp , two of them are jus gone 6 months . And the best one of them 3 is 4and half months .
    just trying to compare, what weight are they, around 230 kilo or more.just looked again 280 kilo?


  • #3255
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    leg wax wrote: »
    Richk2012 wrote: »
    just trying to compare, what weight are they, around 230 kilo or more.just looked again 280 kilo?

    Yea Id say the two older heifers are touchin 280 , id hope anyway :rolleyes: . Them along with the other autumn calves ate ad lib meal throughout the winter up until about 6 weeks ago . I had to restrict them on it eventually as you couldnt keep it to them :D . Grass and milk is the diet for the summer now


  • #3256
    johnpawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭johnpawl


    were they easily calved? what is your plan for them?


  • #3257
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Got the first few cows and calves out to grass yesterday after a clear test ;)

    Smashing stock there Rich. You must have the shed well bedded, I've never seen cattle so clean out of the shed!


  • #3258
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    Richk2012 wrote: »
    Hope they are all well and everything going smoothly .
    Just had a ewe after lambing triplets and after realising she has only one spin :mad: .
    Lambing is just about over with 9 ewes left , with 8 twins and a triplet . No adoption cases on the horizon so ..
    A great strong 4 year old ewe wit 3 super lambs .
    I checked all the ewes closely twice last autumn for mastitis when culling ............obviously not that close :o ?


    same here we checked all before mating yet had 4 lamb down on 1 spin :mad:

    big round up in the morning reckon we must have about 50 to 60 lambs ready for factory with possibly 8 to 10 gone over heavy


  • #3259
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Not farming related, but i had to post it....:D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqCLwJf5fo&feature=related


  • #3260
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Not farming related, but i had to post it....:D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqCLwJf5fo&feature=related[/QUOTE]

    We've all been there, well I have :D


  • #3261
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    monsoon season seems to have kicked off here..sigh..


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  • #3262
    Grecco
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Grecco


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    monsoon season seems to have kicked off here..sigh..

    Yea, had a good summer though, ah well back to the rain


  • #3263
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    monsoon season seems to have kicked off here..sigh..

    It was needed here. Not in a general sense, but I put out fert around the 21st and could still see it fairly well before the rain. The dew done damn all to it.

    Now, as long as it knows when to stop....


  • #3264
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Muckit wrote: »
    Smashing stock there Rich. You must have the shed well bedded, I've never seen cattle so clean out of the shed!

    Thanks muckit , yea both cattle sheds are cleaned out once a week no matter what else happens around the place . If the land is dry enough it goes straight into the spreader , if not it goes into the pit and left to rot for mowed ground in summer , and the calves have a creep area at the back of sheds so they are always clean enough .
    I feed the cattle silage in a concrete yard beside the sheds , saves an awful amount of straw for bedding . They do most of their dunging with their heads in the feeder


  • #3265
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    johnpawl wrote: »
    were they easily calved? what is your plan for them?

    I had to jack the youngest calf of those three , i was with the other two calving but no problems , managed themselves .
    Im not quite sure what the plan is yet , bring them on until september or so and sell them as strong weaners id imagine .


  • #3266
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,038 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    monsoon season seems to have kicked off here..sigh..

    Its looking increasingly like the coldest, wettest April for at least a decade - the weather gods were always going to make us pay for the record breaking warmth and dryness of the past several months!!:(


  • #3267
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    and dryness(

    Not on my planet it wasn't :D


  • #3268
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,038 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    johngalway wrote: »
    Not on my planet it wasn't :D

    Twas rough enough allright around Christmas - and I know just how bad last summer was along the Western Sea-board having the small holding up in Erris. But Jan, Feb and March have been as good as anyone could dare hope. Just hope any bad spell now doesn't last much past April - don't think I could take another rubbish summer:mad::(


  • #3269
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    in my experience, a good april nearly leads to bad weather round silage time so I'll forgive a bit of bad weather now


  • #3270
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    just in the door from been up in county leitrim looking at part bulls, jesus lads yea really have perfected the art of growing rushes up there:eek:.


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  • #3271
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    leg wax wrote: »
    just in the door from been up in county leitrim looking at part bulls, jesus lads yea really have perfected the art of growing rushes up there:eek:.
    Indeed.. With work I occasionally head up west Cavan way and can only describe some of the rush farms as grewsome. Take bad land and then neglect it, not a great combination at all.. We're over east Cavan and I thought we had it bad..

    I sometimes wonder if there should be legislation against letting land get so bad with rush.. I know their not noxious weeds, but Jesus they don't half take over the place..


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