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Muckit · 10-10-2018 7:36pm

Ballinasloe today. Good year and half ch heifers making from €2.25/kg.
No buyers for AA or black white head cattle. Some had a lot of movements and poor weight for age, but if l knew more about them they seemed to be worth a chance.

grassroot1 · 10-10-2018 7:38pm

Anyone in Carnew have a board of management meeting and cant make the mart.
Wondering what 350 to 400kg ch bulls and heifers are making

Never wrestle with pigs · 10-10-2018 10:30pm

Sold a few Jan born SIM bulls this week, 460/500 kg. 900/1200. Very happy with that with the year that is in it. I think quality bulls has come up in the last few weeks but anything plain or light is still back.

Who2 · 14-10-2018 7:00pm

Anyone idea what’s the caution with buying heifers in comparison to bulls. There just doesn’t seem to be the same bite in the market as bulls.

Base price · 14-10-2018 8:11pm

Who2 wrote: »

Anyone idea what’s the caution with buying heifers in comparison to bulls. There just doesn’t seem to be the same bite in the market as bulls.

Probably due to the lack of forage and the additional cost of it and meal. Bull/bullocks weigh heavier on the hook and therefore you get a better return. Unless you are selling heifers to a local butcher/abattoir there is feck all to be gained feeding them for the main factories - vis a vie €/kg.

Danzy · 14-10-2018 8:18pm

What about Heifers for in June, are they worth a consideration Base.

Any type Heifers.

kk.man · 14-10-2018 10:25pm

Who2 wrote: »

Anyone idea what’s the caution with buying heifers in comparison to bulls. There just doesn’t seem to be the same bite in the market as bulls.

Heifers can be short keep if up in the weights. You could push a heifer easier than a bull or bullock. They always take a hit when things go south. Fellas are finishing cattle at much younger ages in recent years.
However I have a suspicion that they might be worth a gamble for Christmas.

sonnybill · 14-10-2018 11:05pm

I was happy enough with the bulls this year but heifers are waste of time.

Feb Charolais white 400kg E1040
Mar Charolais yellow 334kg E970
Mar Charolais yellow 352kg E980
Mar Charolais yellow 340kg E900

charolais0153 · 15-10-2018 7:43pm

Sold lm heifer 370 800
Butty fat type but 5 stars.

For 2018
Average for bulls 1070.400kgs avg
Average for heifers 860. 375kgs avg(Only 3 sold,7 kept)

TITANIUM. · 15-10-2018 8:00pm

charolais0153 wrote: »

Sold lm heifer 370 800
Butty fat type but 5 stars.

For 2018
Average for bulls 1070.400kgs avg
Average for heifers 860. 375kgs avg(Only 3 sold,7 kept)

There decent averages particularly with the year that's in it. Are you 100% Spring calving?

pat73 · 15-10-2018 8:14pm

Any one in Kilmallock today.Just wondering/hoping is there any improvement in the Angus/Whitehead weanling trade.

Pidae.m · 15-10-2018 8:27pm

Calves, runners on fire again in Bandon, two weeks in a row. More farmers out now.

whelan2 · 15-10-2018 8:33pm

Pidae.m wrote: »

Calves, runners on fire again in Bandon, two weeks in a row. More farmers out now.

What are Angus calves going for

charolais0153 · 15-10-2018 9:01pm

TITANIUM. wrote: »

There decent averages particularly with the year that's in it. Are you 100% Spring calving?

No not really. Most were late november. Damn all of a premium for the older calves. 4 were feb they averaged 1050 aswell tho.

TITANIUM. · 15-10-2018 9:07pm

charolais0153 wrote: »

No not really. Most were late november. Damn all of a premium for the older calves. 4 were feb they averaged 1050 aswell tho.

Ya the more we go down this current road the less and less sense the Autume born calf is making to me. Cows eating all the silage they can with ration on top of it plus the calfs picking away at the creep. V the spring born lad with the cow eating no ration all winter reduced silage calve and out to grass.

Who2 · 15-10-2018 9:16pm

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Ya the more we go down this current road the less and less sense the Autume born calf is making to me. Cows eating all the silage they can with ration on top of it plus the calfs picking away at the creep. V the spring born lad with the cow eating no ration all winter reduced silage calve and out to grass.

If the export market doesnt pick up the autumn born is going to get a serious knock. Id intended a full clear out of my autumn calvers this year but with the year thats in it ive still got too many. I was always fond of having the autumn cows for cleaning up behind the spring calvers during the summer and cleaning out the corners of the pit in april.

degetme · 15-10-2018 9:21pm

pat73 wrote: »

Any one in Kilmallock today.Just wondering/hoping is there any improvement in the Angus/Whitehead weanling trade.

the father sold whiteheads 535kg 935e spring 17 born

Limestone Cowboy · 15-10-2018 10:00pm

Sold two april lim bulls tonight. 280kg €820.

patsy_mccabe · 15-10-2018 10:08pm

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Sold two april lim bulls tonight. 280kg €820.

Nothing wrong with that. I've a few booked in tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Limestone Cowboy · 15-10-2018 10:27pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Nothing wrong with that. I've a few booked in tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

No then, I'd thought they would be a small bit heavier and make less. Hard to know at times. Was happy with that anyway.

valtra2 · 15-10-2018 10:28pm

Sold a few tonight Jan 18 Si cross 475 kg 1000euro. Bbx 435kg 975. Abosulate dire prices. At least 200 back on last year. Not looking forward to the next few weeks. The plan to finish all stock myself is looking more and more likely to happen.

Limestone Cowboy · 15-10-2018 10:36pm

A neighbour had 13 chx bulls there aswell out of SIM and lim cows. 280kg-330kg. All march/April calves 840-1000. Can't beat the charolais.

Never wrestle with pigs · 15-10-2018 10:41pm

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

A neighbour had 13 chx bulls there aswell out of SIM and lim cows. 280kg-330kg. All march/April calves 840-1000. Can't beat the charolais.

I do be wondering am I mad pushing my bulls as close to 500kg as possible when lads are getting that money for the light young bulls.

Hard Knocks · 15-10-2018 10:45pm

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

I do be wondering am I mad pushing my bulls as close to 500kg as possible when lads are getting that money for the light young bulls.

When you are going to 500, are you as well to push on to 700kg & kill?

valtra2 · 15-10-2018 10:47pm

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

I do be wondering am I mad pushing my bulls as close to 500kg as possible when lads are getting that money for the light young bulls.

I do think that myself. But like to keep them going when growing. Only way I see it paying is to finish myself. Less cows and finish bulls u16

Never wrestle with pigs · 15-10-2018 11:08pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

When you are going to 500, are you as well to push on to 700kg & kill?

Probably would be. Not really set up for that yet and I use the bulls to pay for bills etc this time of the year. Maby it's the way to go in a few years. It's hard to turn down a 1000/1200 too and no wintering and feeding too. If I was to put in a 500kg jan bull now what would he want to finish? Fag box figures.

charolais0153 · 15-10-2018 11:51pm

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

Probably would be. Not really set up for that yet and I use the bulls to pay for bills etc this time of the year. Maby it's the way to go in a few years. It's hard to turn down a 1000/1200 too and no wintering and feeding too. If I was to put in a 500kg jan bull now what would he want to finish? Fag box figures.

470e meal. 4.25 a kg
100e sialge and mins. 1kg gain for 1st 80 days
50 euro mortality and injury. 1.7 for last 120
75 fixed costs. 285+500=785×.56=
445×4.25=1850 net
1850-695 costs=1155

Never wrestle with pigs · 16-10-2018 12:15am

charolais0153 wrote: »

470e meal. 4.25 a kg
100e sialge and mins. 1kg gain for 1st 80 days
50 euro mortality and injury. 1.7 for last 120
75 fixed costs. 285+500=785×.56=
445×4.25=1850 net
1850-695 costs=1155

Thanks. It's hard to see it paying to feed them when you only have a few and not take the 1000/1200 off the cow now.

Lady Haywire · 16-10-2018 11:41am

General feedback from Carrigallen is ch heifers good, limo heifers bad. Lad from the local village won the overall heifer prize, unsold at 470kg 1200. Next door here had one ch heifer in it 380kg 1080.

Limestone Cowboy · 16-10-2018 1:07pm

Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »

I do be wondering am I mad pushing my bulls as close to 500kg as possible when lads are getting that money for the light young bulls.

Your ground is probably worth a good few kilos compared to what's around here. I'd try and put as much weight on them as I could but don't like to have anything calving before the middle of February. It's mid May here before the grass really gets going and it doesn't suit with the winterage to have them calving any earlier. Cows would be gone dry and into screws trying to rear calves outside. If I had grass in March I'd have them calving at Christmas.

SimmentalT · 16-10-2018 2:57pm

Hi, any idea what a small bunch of 2017 born empty Fresian heifers circa 370kgs would make in the Mart?
Thanks

wiggy123 · 16-10-2018 3:03pm

they ok like-clean? probably 450 - 600... maybe? could be away off the mark now

cute geoge · 16-10-2018 3:11pm

SimmentalT wrote: »

Hi, any idea what a small bunch of 2017 born empty Fresian heifers circa 370kgs would make in the Mart?
Thanks

neighbour bought spring nice '17 hereford heifers 360kg for €500

Bass Reeves · 16-10-2018 3:20pm

SimmentalT wrote: »

Hi, any idea what a small bunch of 2017 born empty Fresian heifers circa 370kgs would make in the Mart?
Thanks

Around there weight unless a farmer wants to buy them for breeding and the lads around the ring push it onto him. They are a bit light and will have to go to grass next year. If they went well a lads that finishes them next June might get a nice ywist off them but they would not be in huge demand.

Hard Knocks · 16-10-2018 11:16pm

Lady Haywire wrote: »

General feedback from Carrigallen is ch heifers good, limo heifers bad. Lad from the local village won the overall heifer prize, unsold at 470kg 1200. Next door here had one ch heifer in it 380kg 1080.

See some pics on journal app
That was some weight for a Jan heifer

charolais0153 · 16-10-2018 11:42pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

See some pics on journal app
That was some weight for a Jan heifer

Could be a

;);) ''jan'' heifer too

Lady Haywire · 16-10-2018 11:54pm

Hard Knocks wrote: »

See some pics on journal app
That was some weight for a Jan heifer

Ach I was 10kg out. Chinese whisper syndrome!
Same man usually has at least one prizewinner in it, very well done cattle.....though probably Dec born!

Pidae.m · 17-10-2018 6:58am

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Ach I was 10kg out. Chinese whisper syndrome!
Same man usually has at least one prizewinner in it, very well done cattle.....though probably Dec born!

Of what year?

wiggy123 · 17-10-2018 10:38am

find could be November(early born.. a lot whines around

Lady Haywire · 17-10-2018 10:39am

Pidae.m wrote: »

Of what year?

:D Same man has great big shorthorn cows with oceans of milk so I'd believe him roughly half of the time.

patsy_mccabe · 17-10-2018 6:13pm

This guy is loooking for €260 for Feb/March Friesian weanlings. My God, how could you make money at that crack. Is this the viable alternative to suckling?

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/27-friesian-bull-weanlings/20105601

Pidae.m · 17-10-2018 7:35pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

This guy is loooking for €260 for Feb/March Friesian weanlings. My God, how could you make money at that crack. Is this the viable alternative to suckling?

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/27-friesian-bull-weanlings/20105601

Sad thing is buy them and kill them in crimbo 12 months and your at less!

bosallagh88 · 17-10-2018 7:41pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

This guy is loooking for €260 for Feb/March Friesian weanlings. My God, how could you make money at that crack. Is this the viable alternative to suckling?

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/27-friesian-bull-weanlings/20105601

Yea couldn’t be much of a turn at that craic they would owe u at least 200 between purchase feed grazing dose etc often wondered would there be more of a turn at runner type calves or say 170 to 200 kg suckler weanling kept for say 8 - 12 months ?

Fine Day · 17-10-2018 7:42pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

This guy is loooking for €260 for Feb/March Friesian weanlings. My God, how could you make money at that crack. Is this the viable alternative to suckling?

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/27-friesian-bull-weanlings/20105601

Its a exceptional year as you know. Last year they would be 200 more or so. I wonder will guys rear calves next year after this year.
You can't beat a good suckler bred animal at the end of the day.

High bike · 17-10-2018 8:41pm

The man that reared them won't have anything out of em but surely the next man has to get a twist at that price I know they might not be easy on the eye but say 10 of them will cost u 2500, 10 reasonable sucker weanlings say 7500 which grou will leave not profit to finish???

High bike · 17-10-2018 8:41pm

The man that reared them won't have anything out of em but surely the next man has to get a twist at that price I know they might not be easy on the eye but say 10 of them will cost u 2500, 10 reasonable sucker weanlings say 7500 which group will leave more profit to finish???

Willfarman · 17-10-2018 8:44pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

This guy is loooking for €260 for Feb/March Friesian weanlings. My God, how could you make money at that crack. Is this the viable alternative to suckling?

https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/27-friesian-bull-weanlings/20105601

This system is definately a viable way to work for nothing just like suckling.. however my preference would be to let another man winter them.. buy at around 400 a piece in March. And have a bunch of 450 550 kg stores going in next winter.. 550 600 kg stores out to grass spring 2020 ..and sell 1100 to 1400.

No bulling. No calving. Lovely friendly docile animals that follow and move. And a little twist on top of a safe sfp.

Bass Reeves · 17-10-2018 10:02pm

Willfarman wrote: »

This system is definately a viable way to work for nothing just like suckling.. however my preference would be to let another man winter them.. buy at around 400 a piece in March. And have a bunch of 450 550 kg stores going in next winter.. 550 600 kg stores out to grass spring 2020 ..and sell 1100 to 1400.

No bulling. No calving. Lovely friendly docile animals that follow and move. And a little twist on top of a safe sfp.

I prefer to start buying from mid May on at about 1.4/1.5/kg and trying to get animals that are 320+kgs heading for 400ish in late July when buying.

Willfarman · 17-10-2018 10:21pm

No two years the same. I used to favor a better done yearling.. Jan born weighing 350+. Graze for summer and winter finish. But it makes me very busy carrying meal twice a day when lambing and spring work is on. Summer fattening is easier.. apart from years like this and years when it never stops raining!

tellmeabit · 18-10-2018 10:33am

345kg x 2 Mar CH. 865 shape
345kg may ch 800.
255kg x4 Mar lmx 680 shape
255kg Mar lm 645
365kg black lm Feb. 835
375 kg orange chx Jan 950
310 kgÂ x3 Mar ch 735 subj
235 x 2 April ch 635.
425 bullix ch 800.
515 bbx oct 17 1380.
Ã‚Â 420 Feb ch 1075.
365 ch Feb 905.
340 ch April 845.
495 lmx Nov 1075.
495 lmx Jan 1090
530kg lmx Nov 1150.
450 Feb chx 950.
375 kgÃ‚Â lm JanÃ‚Â 700.Not sold
365. Lm Jan 700.

From gortalea last night. Thought some of the light while ch did ok. 280 kg bit of shape near 800â‚¬

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