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Calf price chitchat

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  • #32
    dar31
    Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dar31


    First load of calves gone to the Mart this morning. Mainly fr and a few jex.
    Will update prices later


  • #33
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,362 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    dar31 wrote: »
    First load of calves gone to the Mart this morning. Mainly fr and a few jex.
    Will update prices later

    Be gentle :)


  • #34
    dar31
    Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dar31


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Be gentle :)

    Checked the tea leaves this morning... they are saying jex 70-80 plain fr 150 😂😂


  • #35
    Morris Moss
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Morris Moss


    dar31 wrote: »
    Checked the tea leaves this morning... they are saying jex 70-80 plain fr 150 😂😂

    What age were they?


  • #36
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Morris Moss wrote: »
    What age were they?

    The tea leaves? :)


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  • #37
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,056 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Any idea of bb bull calf prices?


  • #38
    simx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Any idea of bb bull calf prices?

    Sold some bulls in yard the other day €350 7/10 days old, know another man got €400 for month old bulls this week in yard too


  • #39
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    Calves in macroom yesterday.... B-serk, one of the dealers arrived in blind drunk and bought 60 calves. A shake with 350 for nice her bulls. A lot of very young fr bulls making 80


  • #40
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Calves in macroom yesterday.... B-serk, one of the dealers arrived in blind drunk and bought 60 calves. A shake with 350 for nice her bulls. A lot of very young fr bulls making 80
    A dealer up my way is advertising fr bulls on done deal for 130€. He must be buying them for around 80€ as you say. Claiming these are out of British Fr cows!
    I often wounder with lads like that..why do they bother? (Diseal,commissioned, cost of keeping them right and adds).


  • #41
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭kk.man


    kk.man wrote: »
    Pidae.m wrote: »
    Calves in macroom yesterday.... B-serk, one of the dealers arrived in blind drunk and bought 60 calves. A shake with 350 for nice her bulls. A lot of very young fr bulls making 80
    A dealer up my way is advertising fr bulls on done deal for 130€. He must be buying them for around 80€ as you say. Claiming these are out of British Fr cows!
    I often wounder with lads like that..why do they bother? (Diseal,commissioned, cost of keeping them right and adds).
    And income tax


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  • #42
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,056 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    kk.man wrote: »
    A dealer up my way is advertising fr bulls on done deal for 130€. He must be buying them for around 80€ as you say. Claiming these are out of British Fr cows!
    I often wounder with lads like that..why do they bother? (Diseal,commissioned, cost of keeping them right and adds).
    I'd say they are picking them up for 60 euro off farm


  • #43
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    simx wrote: »
    Sold some bulls in yard the other day €350 7/10 days old, know another man got €400 for month old bulls this week in yard too

    Simx, what’s the breeding of the bull you’re using, thinking of putting some Bb AI bulls on dairy cows to breed suckler replacements. Not sue on what bull to use. Tks, Mac


  • #44
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    DBZ is consistent I find, cows don't go overtime and and haven't had any trouble calving them but may only have 5 to 10 in any given year. Personally I'd avoid genomic beef bulls untill calving reliability is higher for dairy cows anyway. Obviously i wouldn't be putting bb on small cows or first calvers


  • #45
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    kk.man wrote: »
    A dealer up my way is advertising fr bulls on done deal for 130€. He must be buying them for around 80€ as you say. Claiming these are out of British Fr cows!
    I often wounder with lads like that..why do they bother? (Diseal,commissioned, cost of keeping them right and adds).
    My brother started buying calves in north Kerry. Big difference between them and the cork calf. A lot more square.


  • #46
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,674 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    kk.man wrote: »
    And income tax

    What's that?

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



  • #47
    Pidae.m
    Closed Accounts Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Pidae.m


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    What's that?

    I think you'll find it in the dairy thread ;)


  • #48
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    Your commoner gardener calf dealer is making feck all money. Fivers and tenders per calf. Trucking them around trying to find a victim. Bollixing with permits till they get them sold.

    They are very necessary to hoover up the scrap calves most farmers would avoid


  • #49
    simx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Simx, what’s the breeding of the bull you’re using, thinking of putting some Bb AI bulls on dairy cows to breed suckler replacements. Not sue on what bull to use. Tks, Mac

    Dfd here this year, that's one below, 6.3% c.d


  • #50
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,918 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    Your commoner gardener calf dealer is making feck all money. Fivers and tenders per calf. Trucking them around trying to find a victim. Bollixing with permits till they get them sold.

    They are very necessary to hoover up the scrap calves most farmers would avoid

    The movement is destroying those lads too


  • #51
    farisfat
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭farisfat


    dar31 wrote: »
    First load of calves gone to the Mart this morning. Mainly fr and a few jex.
    Will update prices later

    How did the jex go ....I've a few here to go


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  • #52
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    The movement is destroying those lads too

    What a lot of them is just leave it idle for a few days and then transfer to the buyer of the calf


  • #53
    dar31
    Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dar31


    farisfat wrote: »
    How did the jex go ....I've a few here to go

    Will know Monday. Waiting on email from mart


  • #54
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,056 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    dar31 wrote: »
    Will know Monday. Waiting on email from mart

    Any update?


  • #55
    dar31
    Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dar31


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Any update?

    7-10 day old fr €65
    10-14 day old fr €80-100
    jex out of heifers 7-10 days old €5-20, although one made €65


  • #56
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    dar31 wrote: »
    7-10 day old fr €65
    10-14 day old fr €80-100
    jex out of heifers 7-10 days old €5-20, although one made €65

    Would they be jersy bulls used or crossbred then? Reason I ask is some lads have customers happy enough to take the 3/4 bred cross


  • #57
    dar31
    Registered Users Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭dar31


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Would they be jersy bulls used or crossbred then? Reason I ask is some lads have customers happy enough to take the 3/4 bred cross

    kiwicross bulls mainly PSQ who is 62% JE,
    calves have jex on card


  • #58
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    dar31 wrote: »
    kiwicross bulls mainly PSQ who is 62% JE,
    calves have jex on card
    It's fairly annoying when a bull like that used on a friesian dam would have a calf that's 69% friesian/31% jersey and appears as a Jex instead of Frx.


  • #59
    farisfat
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭farisfat


    dar31 wrote: »
    7-10 day old fr €65
    10-14 day old fr €80-100
    jex out of heifers 7-10 days old €5-20, although one made €65

    We'll have beer money from the jex when the calving is finished.


  • #60
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,056 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    :eek: https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/10-fr-bulls-job-lot-300-2-3-weeks-old/18019016


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  • #61
    moll3
    Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭moll3


    whelan2 wrote: »
    :eek: https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/10-fr-bulls-job-lot-300-2-3-weeks-old/18019016

    ya calves took a big drop in Listowel today


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