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Bulling heifers

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  • #62
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,672 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Here ya go. Martin O'Connor's sale Elphin Mart 8th Nov.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/martin-oconnors-in-calf-heifer-sale-2019/23251571

    Which of these heifers would people like? I'd only like pics 6 & 8, maybe 10.

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



  • #63
    jfh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭jfh


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Here ya go. Martin O'Connor's sale Elphin Mart 8th Nov.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/martin-oconnors-in-calf-heifer-sale-2019/23251571

    Which of these heifers would people like? I'd only like pics 6 & 8, maybe 10.
    You would want a calving jack handy for all those.


  • #64
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    jfh wrote: »
    You would want a calving jack handy for all those.
    They are all fairly beefy alright and there would probably have less milk than a dandelion. Personally they would be two big for my place, they would be ploughing in this wet weather. The blue black 1 is a nice enough heifer & with AA in her breding she should have milk.


  • #65
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    jfh wrote: »
    You would want a calving jack handy for all those.
    They are all fairly beefy alright and there would probably have less milk than a dandelion. Personally they would be two big for my place, they would be ploughing in this wet weather. The blue black 1 is a nice enough heifer & with AA in her breding she should have milk.


  • #66
    Limestone Cowboy
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Here ya go. Martin O'Connor's sale Elphin Mart 8th Nov.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/martin-oconnors-in-calf-heifer-sale-2019/23251571

    Which of these heifers would people like? I'd only like pics 6 & 8, maybe 10.

    Your very biased towards the limos :D


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  • #67
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Who2 wrote: »
    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Sounds like a likelier gamble. I’d love to be talking to anyone paying 3000 or 3500 for those heifers to ask what made them prepared to go to that money. My suspicion is that it’s someone wanting to show their cash on the hip I’d love to be proved wrong but going into that sale someone must have had it in their head that she’s worth 34

    I seen a lad give similar money for a heifer and sold here for 6 odd at a fat stock show. There’s a lad for everything. The whole showing scene makes no sense really but I wouldn’t mind having a few to come into that sort of money.

    6?!?! What the hell is the factory going to give to cover that? Silliness. Likevyou say there’s no logic to it


  • #68
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Here ya go. Martin O'Connor's sale Elphin Mart 8th Nov.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/martin-oconnors-in-calf-heifer-sale-2019/23251571

    Which of these heifers would people like? I'd only like pics 6 & 8, maybe 10.

    I guess 7 is nice too and the bluey one has nice coloring if she’s a bit gutty. They all look far too fleshy and heavy for calving, likely packed with meal. Was talking to a guy who bought heifers off a well known heifer man... we only had 7 caesarians this year... that’s some craic. I dunno how to understand this panic buying but it’s cutting my throat the nice lim heifers I threw away at 450 kgs in August. If I painted a white stripe on their bellies I’d be a f**king millionaire this time next year


  • #69
    TooOldBoots
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Here ya go. Martin O'Connor's sale Elphin Mart 8th Nov.

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/martin-oconnors-in-calf-heifer-sale-2019/23251571

    Which of these heifers would people like? I'd only like pics 6 & 8, maybe 10.

    Too much muscle. The vet would be a busy man at the side door with those. Best left for the Butcher to hang em


  • #70
    cacs
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    TooOldBoots wrote: »
    Too much muscle. The vet would be a busy man at the side door with those. Best left for the Butcher to hang em
    Way too much Beef/ Muscle/ Feeding and lack of Milk traits for me. They look like factory fit heifers not coming up to calfing. I think Breed an R grade cow with good calfing ability and milk with a good U bull and your winning. Doing it the other way around. i suppose you could put a Holstein on them they should be fit to calf them


  • #71
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    cacs wrote: »
    Way too much Beef/ Muscle/ Feeding and lack of Milk traits for me. They look like factory fit heifers not coming up to calfing. I think Breed an R grade cow with good calfing ability and milk with a good U bull and your winning. Doing it the other way around. i suppose you could put a Holstein on them they should be fit to calf them

    Yep I think you’d gravely regret buying those heifers. If it didn’t work out you’ve a big beast to sell. Another problem at a lot of these incalf heifer sales they’re very agey. Saw one got for £1600 at 42 months last week


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  • #72
    p dogg
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    Delighted to have landed this heifer in Delvin weanling sale Friday night. March born 380 kgs. She is 3/4 bred simmental with shorthorn breeding in her aswell. She cost 880. The same heifer would have cost an extra 3 or 4 hundred at the special sale I was at in Carnaross last Saturday. Fingers crossed, may she be lucky.


  • #73
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    p dogg wrote: »
    Delighted to have landed this heifer in Delvin weanling sale Friday night. March born 380 kgs. She is 3/4 bred simmental with shorthorn breeding in her aswell. She cost 880. The same heifer would have cost an extra 3 or 4 hundred at the special sale I was at in Carnaross last Saturday. Fingers crossed, may she be lucky.

    Great work hope she works out well for you. Any photos? Would to try bulling her for calving next autumn or wait on?


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