Irish Charolais Society rip off

vanderbadger

lads recently purchased a pb cow at a dispersal sale advertised by charolais society, she is due to calf soon so I enquired about registering the calf (all going well)..
firstly I need to join the society..€127 euro thanks for a first timer member...bad enough you might think..€38 euro to register the cow in my name..this is the rule of membership
€40 euro to register the calf, €50 unless you do direct debit!
come January membership time again..another €50 euro
does anyone else think its a total rip? that €255 by it will have cost me by the end of January..

Rujib1

vanderbadger wrote: »

lads recently purchased a pb cow at a dispersal sale advertised by charolais society, she is due to calf soon so I enquired about registering the calf (all going well)..
firstly I need to join the society..€127 euro thanks for a first timer member...bad enough you might think..€38 euro to register the cow in my name..this is the rule of membership
€40 euro to register the calf, €50 unless you do direct debit!
come January membership time again..another €50 euro
does anyone else think its a total rip? that €255 by it will have cost me by the end of January..

Rip off. Big time. PB societies by their nature are run by a few for the benefit of a few, with the bulk of the members being used as cash machines to fund the lads at the top.
Then you go to a sale, to find member A from the top table buys stock of member B form the top table for a crazy price, and B buys from A for an equally crazy price. Ididot down the pecking order gets caught up in the hype and gets creamed by the prime boys and the cute hoor auctioneers.

Stick with a few middeling commercials. More money in the end me thinks.

R

robototitico

What do the societies do with all that money? I know advertising upcoming shows in the Journal is expensive, but what else do they spend it on?

CJhaughey

robototitico wrote: »

What do the societies do with all that money? I know advertising upcoming shows in the Journal is expensive, but what else do they spend it on?

Meals and miles.

Bitten & Hisses

vanderbadger wrote: »

lads recently purchased a pb cow at a dispersal sale advertised by charolais society, she is due to calf soon so I enquired about registering the calf (all going well)..
firstly I need to join the society..€127 euro thanks for a first timer member...bad enough you might think..€38 euro to register the cow in my name..this is the rule of membership
€40 euro to register the calf, €50 unless you do direct debit!
come January membership time again..another €50 euro
does anyone else think its a total rip? that €255 by it will have cost me by the end of January..

Wait until you start buying equipment and potions to prepare them for a society sale! That's when the real fun starts.
I remember when the Charolais Society used to charge an annual fee for every breeding female in your herd! :eek:

Muckit

Ya the fees for registering are high alright! There's alot, no more than anything else, you have to find out for yourself! Well that's what I found. Lads in the game, especially those doing well at it are very tight lipped!!

Also everyone will always tell you the good story, not necessarily the bad ****!

On the plus side, well this is what I've learned, is that you haven't no more than myself, gone into it in a big way! If you've a nice calf and you get her in calf again, at least you'I have the price of her back, even if you decide to sell the bull/heifer unhalter trained out of the shed.

Then sure, if you want, give the pedigree crack and the buracracy/politics of it all the two fingers and cross her with a good AI limousin bull. You should get a nice commerical weanling, if it's a heifer you can keep her and breed her and so on

vanderbadger

speaking of puttin her in calf again, anyone ever use the dovea bull TZA, looks like a good one?

Muckit

Yes TZA is an excellent animal. He's by domino who also sired enfield plexus. I've a ped cow in calf to TZA that is due to calf anyday now (due since thurs)

Fingers crossed, all goes well. She's a big cow so should be ok;)

I've a heifer due to calf middle Jan by HWN, a good alround bull aswel