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Options for fattening cows

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  • 29-07-2020 9:14pm
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    max12
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    I have some suckler cows not in calf. Feb and March born and calves are about 250 Kgs.

    Options are.

    Sell in mart immediately when take off calves (early September)
    Start giving nuts with the calves there also.
    Take off calves and start feeding the cows for 6 weeu meal.

    Cows are in good flesh at the min and just on grass with no meal.


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    Bass Reeves
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    What do you intend to do with the weanlings

    Slava Ukrainii



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    50HX
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    Good money at the minute for cows witb calves at foot...another option


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    max12
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    What do you intend to do with the weanlings

    Will be keeping calves for the winter.

    Not an option to sell weanlings or even calf at foot job. Just want to sell cows and might consider buying replacement heifers afterwards depending on trade.


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    White Clover
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    50HX wrote: »
    Good money at the minute for cows witb calves at foot...another option

    What's the value of a 23 month old limxAA with a 3 week old Red lim bull calf at foot. Good scopey heifer, will fill out into a big cow.


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    Bass Reeves
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    max12 wrote: »
    Will be keeping calves for the winter.

    Not an option to sell weanlings or even calf at foot job. Just want to sell cows and might consider buying replacement heifers afterwards depending on trade.

    With present prices it may be a case of weaning and selling as soon as possible.

    Slava Ukrainii



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    max12
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    With present prices it may be a case of weaning and selling as soon as possible.

    In the mart?


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    Bass Reeves
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    max12 wrote: »
    In the mart?

    Where else.

    Slava Ukrainii



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    Gods Gift
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    Rolled barley and grass.


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    50HX
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    White Clover wrote: »
    What's the value of a 23 month old limxAA with a 3 week old Red lim bull calf at foot. Good scopey heifer, will fill out into a big cow.


    They could go for 1400-1600 if there is go for the them going on what i saw last week


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    Base price
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    White Clover wrote: »
    What's the value of a 23 month old limxAA with a 3 week old Red lim bull calf at foot. Good scopey heifer, will fill out into a big cow.
    Looked at BJD online yesterday whilst having a coffee and cow/calves were from €880 (SHx/AAx heifer calf) to €1640 (LMx/heifer calf) with the majority of them selling around €1400.


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    minerleague
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    max12 wrote: »
    I have some suckler cows not in calf. Feb and March born and calves are about 250 Kgs.

    Options are.

    Sell in mart immediately when take off calves (early September)
    Start giving nuts with the calves there also.
    Take off calves and start feeding the cows for 6 weeu meal.

    Cows are in good flesh at the min and just on grass with no meal.

    Sent older suckler cull cows to factory in last two weeks, reckon they would have more ( guessing KO etc) in the mart at the moment. I would go for option 2 above, you can remove cows then at any time once calves are eating nuts


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    [Deleted User]
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    max12 wrote: »
    I have some suckler cows not in calf. Feb and March born and calves are about 250 Kgs.

    Options are.

    Sell in mart immediately when take off calves (early September)
    Start giving nuts with the calves there also.
    Take off calves and start feeding the cows for 6 weeu meal.

    Cows are in good flesh at the min and just on grass with no meal.

    How old are the cows? Age will impact how long it will take them to fatten


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    Aravo
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    Is the OP in the Beam scheme, if yes, then an early selling point would assist their adherence to Beam T&C's


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    Markcheese
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    They'll probably go backwards when you take the calves off them ,so if you can get the easywean paddles it'll stop the cows stressing and pacing ,so they can get on with just eating ..

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    TooOldBoots
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    Savage prices for all cow types at the minute. I reckon by the time you'd have them fat it would be late October the earliest. Just in time for the Glut of fat-stock in the autumn. You'd be getting the same money for them now, maybe even more if the ar$e falls out of the prices. Are we due some more Brexit BS to pull the prices back?


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    Welding Rod
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    Out the gate and into the mart ASAP, based on current prices. Pretty much all stock are hot at the minute. Culls are red hot.


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    Bass Reeves
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    Welding Rod wrote: »
    Out the gate and into the mart ASAP, based on current prices. Pretty much all stock are hot at the minute. Culls are red hot.

    I think when you take BEAM into account selling cows in the mart ASAP is a good call. On a Suckler farm there may be 2k in play with BEAM. Selling culls early and not replacing may allow more flexibility when selling weanlings or stores

    Slava Ukrainii



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    Mooooo
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    Had a cull fr cow get summer mastitis after the herd test, got 2.90 at p+3=. Only killed out at just shy of 300kgs,lucky to get her away as she going backwards over the bank holiday, may have lost a bit in the time she had it.
    No ration got. If healthy dunno what she would have made in the mart


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