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    #4412
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Bought six good middle of the road Friesians yesterday 400kgs 600 euro. They will do well next August/September. All March on the cards so they can go to September. If grading hold as well next year like this year they will turn a bob. Also bought two 370kgs for 590 but were May born so can go to next November. I expect them to more than double there money on average.

    Problem with heavy AA or HE stores is there is a limit to there top value at 370kgs as well you have to finish by 30 months. The HE to average that would need to kill 360kgs on average and hit 4.15/kg inc bonuses. I expect my friesiand to average it at present base prices. The HE would want a base of 3.85/kg to do that.

    Those fr were great value. You did well there and won't lose on them. Private or mart?


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    #4413
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,212 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    kk.man wrote: »
    Those fr were great value. You did well there and won't lose on them. Private or mart?

    Mart add a tenner for fees and I bought them home myself in a couple of runs with my Rav and an 8X5 box

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #4414
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    Personally i think those Fr's are too light at this stage of the year - i would think they should be 50kg heavier to get a decent kill on them next year


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    #4415
    orm0nd
    Registered Users Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭orm0nd


    sold 6 good square lengthy red hex heifers ex br fr cows, mar/apr '19 430kgs €900

    1 of the drovers at the mart approached me & asked were they all suitable for breeding as he had an online customer if so

    I assured him they were all maidens.

    no interest in those last spring only 1 guy who offered 600. ex shed. were on rough grazing since


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    #4416
    CHOPS01
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭CHOPS01


    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    Bought 10 HEx Jan/Feb/March 19 last week on DD.
    Hard to know exact weights but I would guess averaging about 440/450kg at €890.
    Always worry I gave too much after leaving but when they arrived I'm happy. Nice shapely cattle that should do well come next July.

    And in fairness to your man gave me €50 luck penny and another €50 towards the haulage.


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    #4417
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,212 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Personally i think those Fr's are too light at this stage of the year - i would think they should be 50kg heavier to get a decent kill on them next year

    Not really. Just watching Friesians at present 330 kgs can be got sub 500 euro, 360/370 for 550 and 400 kgs for about 600 euro. The 370 one's I bought were particularly square and I was filling second load in the box.

    When you got above them weights prices jump, I saw 435kgs make 700 euro today and in general 450 ones always make over 700 euro and you will pay 800 for 500kg+.

    350-400 kgs Friesian's are better value in that case. Way cheaper to carry over the winter, usually they have a bit more compensatory growth than the heavier ones. While the heavier ones may gross more it hard to close that 100 euro gap.

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #4418
    GNWoodd
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭GNWoodd


    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    And in fairness to your man €50 luck penny and another €50 towards the haulage.

    You have them at less than € 2 a kilo .
    Not much in them for the man who brought them this far


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    #4419
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Seen a nice fr trio in gortatlea tonight 400kg about €520. July 19 born. Badly not, not badly bred. Looked chancey.


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    #4420
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,212 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Seen a nice fr trio in gortatlea tonight 400kg about €520. July 19 born. Badly not, not badly bred. Looked chancey.

    Bulls

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #4421
    MIKEKC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭MIKEKC


    kk.man wrote: »
    Those fr were great value. You did well there and won't lose on them. Private or mart?

    Journal price tracker showing fr 500kg e810


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    #4422
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Bulls

    Steers


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    #4423
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Steers

    Sorry they wer badly done I meant.


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    #4424
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,212 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Steers

    Buying in Kerry is a different game. I should not be educating people. I have followed them for another bit. Gortnalea cattle can be quite empty. Now usually it Friday I follow it. July 19 born and 400 kgs would not be light IMHO.

    AFAIK Wednesday is a weanling/ runner mart unusual to see bullocks there. That would effect there prices. Not too many bullock men would be online to bid on them

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #4425
    DBK1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭DBK1


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Seen a nice fr trio in gortatlea tonight 400kg about €520. July 19 born. Badly not, not badly bred. Looked chancey.
    A 220kg shorthorn heifer made €880 about an hour ago. She was nothing spectacular either. Hard to make sense out of that.


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    #4426
    Albert Johnson
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 1,874 Mod ✭✭✭✭Albert Johnson


    DBK1 wrote: »
    A 220kg shorthorn heifer made €880 about an hour ago. She was nothing spectacular either. Hard to make sense out of that.

    Two interested parties and I'm assuming she was a nice roan colour? A solid red or all white Shorthorn doesn't usually sell as well as a roan one of the same quality. It's the time of year where lad's have money gathered up from the sale of a few weanlings and the first of the subs are paid out. They like to reinvest in something after the year's work and that sort of a purchase would be within most lad's abilities.


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    #4427
    DBK1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭DBK1


    Yea a roan colour. The link below should take you to the video of her selling on livestock live.

    https://www.livestock-live.com/MartMemberAccess/Market/MartCatalogue?Mart=M262&SearchDateRange=Last&DoSearch=DoSearch&Op=detail&SearchAuctionDayID=303&SearchAuctionID=77941


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    #4428
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭memorystick


    What’s the best value out there at the moment? Nice few reared calves on DD at handy money.


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    #4429
    coolshannagh28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭coolshannagh28


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Two interested parties and I'm assuming she was a nice roan colour? A solid red or all white Shorthorn doesn't usually sell as well as a roan one of the same quality. It's the time of year where lad's have money gathered up from the sale of a few weanlings and the first of the subs are paid out. They like to reinvest in something after the year's work and that sort of a purchase would be within most lad's abilities.

    There is a niche market for these roan heifers , a lot of men like them to cross with a charolais , they are milky and throw a nice colour of calf .


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    #4430
    Farmer_3650
    Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭Farmer_3650


    Brother reared a few angus and hereford heifer calves this year, just wondering what sort of money they'd be worth now? Feb born, probably 220kgs, no bellies on them like alot of calves would have. Would they be worth €2/kg? Wouldn't have a clue of them sort of cattle and haven't seen anything similar in the marts lately to compare them too. Thanks.


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    #4431
    Siamsa Sessions
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,654 Mod ✭✭✭✭Siamsa Sessions


    Farmer_3650 wrote: »
    no bellies on them like alot of calves would have.

    Basic question but are those bellies you’d see on AA and HE calves caused by fellas giving them more meal than their frame can handle?

    Trading as Sullivan’s Farm on YouTube



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    #4432
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Siamsa Sessions wrote: »
    Basic question but are those bellies you’d see on AA and HE calves caused by fellas giving them more meal than their frame can handle?

    No it's a sign of undernourishment. It's like those African children on the Trocaire box of old.
    No matter the breed of bovine the big belly is accompanied by a skinny back.
    It's a sign of worms taking all the nutrients and doing damage or just the animal is not being fed enough. If calves go like that they usually don't have much of a future on the farm in adulthood.


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    #4433
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Sold a few odd balls during the week

    He bull 4 weeks old off a cow €290
    Bb bucket reared 4 weeks old 260
    Fr h 4 weeks old bucket reared 175
    One he f off a cow 3 months 400
    Aa heifer 3 months off a cow 460


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    #4434
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    Albert Johnson wrote: »
    Two interested parties and I'm assuming she was a nice roan colour? A solid red or all white Shorthorn doesn't usually sell as well as a roan one of the same quality. It's the time of year where lad's have money gathered up from the sale of a few weanlings and the first of the subs are paid out. They like to reinvest in something after the year's work and that sort of a purchase would be within most lad's abilities.


    Had a look at the clip of that SH heifer selling....she is a good square beef type shorthorn,so not surprised she made that kind of money.If crossed with a good CH or LM bull in time to come she will produce a good wide cow that will have plenty of milk,the roan colouring will help her to have a nice coloured calf herself.
    A lot of CH or LM cows lack in milk so this is a route for the buyer of the heifer to improve his stock at home.


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    #4435
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Western Pomise wrote: »
    Had a look at the clip of that SH heifer selling....she is a good square beef type shorthorn,so not surprised she made that kind of money.If crossed with a good CH or LM bull in time to come she will produce a good wide cow that will have plenty of milk,the roan colouring will help her to have a nice coloured calf herself.
    A lot of CH or LM cows lack in milk so this is a route for the buyer of the heifer to improve his stock at home.

    There was a picture of her with her mother on DD during the week. Mother was a good orange lm cow.


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    #4436
    jfh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭jfh


    There's some demand for shorthorn heifers, they go for crazy prices, if milk is an issue, surely a sim x would be better?


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    #4437
    RD10
    Registered Users Posts: 531 ✭✭✭RD10


    Anyone know if the martbids app can be used on Samsung or Huawei phones? is it just designed for use on iPhone?


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    #4438
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭tanko


    RD10 wrote: »
    Anyone know if the martbids app can be used on Samsung or Huawei phones? is it just designed for use on iPhone?

    I downloaded MartBids onto my iPhone but can’t see any video of the ring.
    Is the live video supposed to be there?


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    #4439
    jimini0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭jimini0


    RD10 wrote: »
    Anyone know if the martbids app can be used on Samsung or Huawei phones? is it just designed for use on iPhone?

    I can use it on Samsung. Can't bid in local mart it says permission denied


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    #4440
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    RD10 wrote: »
    Anyone know if the martbids app can be used on Samsung or Huawei phones? is it just designed for use on iPhone?

    I've a Huawei and Ive it download on it.


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    #4441
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Nice even bunch of fr today. Spring 19 450kg €590 in macroom.

    I'm laid up at the moment so watching a good few sales, saw balla for the first time today.... Man o man what a sale of colour cows. Bax & bb cows literally never see the like down here.


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