RightTurnClyde wrote: » I didn't say what age or size they were. They're all pre March 15th. They won't be sold or weaned until they're 125kgs. All heifers here are usually 300kgs and bulling pre 21 months. €180 :):)
Milked out wrote: » And I could nearly guarantee you there'll be someone somewhere pay that and more for a may born fr bull in june...
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » As long as he is buying it off me, I won't complain:p
Wildsurfer wrote: » You wouldn't give €180 for high EBI heifers? If they were only 3 weeks old they'd still be March calves and easily calve down in Feb 2017 with proper managment. How much do you think it's costing you to get your heifers on the ground cause I think this is fantastic value
pedigree 6 wrote: » You calve them all down at 23-24. I hope? Some year for anyone wanting to get big numbers dairy stock for small money. A lot of beef calves will be born next year.
blue5000 wrote: » Not dairying, but wondering what beef bulls you dairy lads will be using? I hear some ppl round here had problems calving herefords. Calves too big, maybe the heifers they used them on were 2 small. Even 2 yo suckler heifers had problems with them too.
visatorro wrote: » Cows on last last of first round, around a cover of 2000 on it. Clean out is crap. Dunno what it's going to be like for the rest of the year. I probably should mow it really but too late for that now. Using strip wire and cows stand there balling as if they are starved.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » Move them on and bale that paddock next round?
Milked out wrote: » I think the last two or 3 years the last born fr bulls sold for the highest price, couldn't make sense of it
freedominacup wrote: » Move them on and bale it now.
Sam Kade wrote: » Where would I buy cheap maiden heifers, plenty average maiden heifers on done deal looking for stupid money for them.
Timmaay wrote: » Cows on 36hr blocks at the min, protein hit 3.56 last collection, that's a new record for springtime here! But like the rest of yas, Bf crash from 4.11 last collection to 3.76 ugh!
pedigree 6 wrote: » Was silage in diet for the 4.11% test?
Sam Kade wrote: » My scc is 47k-60k had a bit of a mishap earlier on with a fresh Calver she drove bulk tank scc to 480 but quickly came back down.
freedominacup wrote: » When you see how well they go on 36hr breaks you'd wonder what you were at with all those reels over the years. I've a block up next that looks to have around 48 hrs on it and I'm just going to let them off on it tomorrow evening and see how it goes. Teagasc advisor was advising against it during the week as he reckoned you'd be into hitting regrowth territory. Lots of wires to come down. A few new troughs to go in but rigid paddock sized are on the way out here.
RightTurnClyde wrote: Kowtow are you really looking for heifer calves. 55 heifers here, want to sell 15-20 of them
jaymla627 wrote: » Cows religiously get 12 hour block here, fresh grass every grazing.... Never have been able to get over the idea of letting cows out on to 24/36 hour breaks and excepting them to eat down swards right, when you take into account what they're dunging on/walking into the ground; it's like you eating your dinner three times over on the third day and it going through the microwave everytime haha
Timmaay wrote: » 12hr blocks are fine if your buffer feeding, but otherwise it's impossible to match the area with the demand exactly, your always either underfeeding the cows or something left behind, on 36hr blocks you only push the cows every 3rd grazing, or sometimes you do like I'm doing today, give the cows 1/2 a 4th grazing to fully clean out and move them on at lunchtime. Cows back to 2kg of nuts in the parlour here also.
