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Hiring a bull

  • 31-03-2011 10:24pm
    #1
    Dunedin
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    does anyone know of a name/contact to Hire a bull for a season?


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  • #2
    LivInt20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭LivInt20


    Dunedin wrote: »
    does anyone know of a name/contact to Hire a bull for a season?
    .


  • #3
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Dunedin wrote: »
    does anyone know of a name/contact to Hire a bull for a season?

    Check out the Farmers Journal. There's usually an ad from a guy in Monaghan who hires them out. Think there's someone in Cork that does it too!!


  • #4
    wiggy123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭wiggy123


    monaghan man there--does that! has all breeds i do hear! have heard gd reports+bad reports about him!
    not better buying a bull--and then let him do his job--sell on,etc...what breed looking for?


  • #5
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    wiggy123 wrote: »
    monaghan man there--does that! has all breeds i do hear! have heard gd reports+bad reports about him!
    not better buying a bull--and then let him do his job--sell on,etc...what breed looking for?
    i know him very well and he is a crook and competle messer.he is in jail at the minute he threatend to kill a lady dept of agric officer.he was also not bloodin the bulls when they moved to a different herd.as whelan 1 said in a previous post brucellosis has not gone away and is widespread across the border. dont know how he got away with it for so long and jail is the place for him.his bulls are not even pure bred i looked up bull of his on icbf for someone and it said no bull found .he keeps bulls in killkenny on a farm he leases.he lost leases on other farms having dead bulls lying about round bale plastic dung and slurry and tags.he lets bulls tramp lease land all winter. he should get his herd number taken off him .his bulls would have no bvd or any other disease free staus.


  • #6
    pakalasa
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    Jazus....that's mad. He could have spread serious disease by now.


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  • #7
    Grecco
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    Dunedin wrote: »
    does anyone know of a name/contact to Hire a bull for a season?

    Ah lad sure you could buy a bull for €1000, He may not be a 5 star bull but at least he`ll be a purebred and you`ll have a set of calves out of him. On top of this theres nothing stopping you from selling him off at the fall and getting you money back.


  • #8
    reilig
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    Grecco wrote: »
    Ah lad sure you could buy a bull for €1000, He may not be a 5 star bull but at least he`ll be a purebred and you`ll have a set of calves out of him. On top of this theres nothing stopping you from selling him off at the fall and getting you money back.

    You won't buy a bull for 1000. Sure any animal that's over 500kg is making at least 1200. Dealers are going around all the bull sales to buy all the bulls at under 1700 for the factory.

    I'm a firm believer that you get what you pay for. If you buy a bull for 1000 it will be reflected in the sale price of your calves!!


  • #9
    Grecco
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    reilig wrote: »
    You won't buy a bull for 1000. Sure any animal that's over 500kg is making at least 1200. Dealers are going around all the bull sales to buy all the bulls at under 1700 for the factory.

    I'm a firm believer that you get what you pay for. If you buy a bull for 1000 it will be reflected in the sale price of your calves!!

    I hear what your saying, you definitely get what you pay for. Maybe not €1000 but Ive seen bulls advertised for 12 and 13 hundred (and you could always do a bit of bargaining). My point is that there are good deals to be got when buying a bull and its gotta be better than renting a bull.


  • #10
    whelan1
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    would never rent a bull , we have lads buying bulls to clean up and then they bring them to the mart and get what they paid us for them there , its a win win situation


  • #11
    whelan1
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    what happen wrote: »
    i know him very well and he is a crook and competle messer.he is in jail at the minute he threatend to kill a lady dept of agric officer.he was also not bloodin the bulls when they moved to a different herd.as whelan 1 said in a previous post brucellosis has not gone away and is widespread across the border. dont know how he got away with it for so long and jail is the place for him.his bulls are not even pure bred i looked up bull of his on icbf for someone and it said no bull found .he keeps bulls in killkenny on a farm he leases.he lost leases on other farms having dead bulls lying about round bale plastic dung and slurry and tags.he lets bulls tramp lease land all winter. he should get his herd number taken off him .his bulls would have no bvd or any other disease free staus.
    sounds like a lovely man


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  • #12
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    what happen wrote: »
    i know him very well and he is a crook and competle messer.he is in jail at the minute he threatend to kill a lady dept of agric officer.he was also not bloodin the bulls when they moved to a different herd.as whelan 1 said in a previous post brucellosis has not gone away and is widespread across the border. dont know how he got away with it for so long and jail is the place for him.his bulls are not even pure bred i looked up bull of his on icbf for someone and it said no bull found .he keeps bulls in killkenny on a farm he leases.he lost leases on other farms having dead bulls lying about round bale plastic dung and slurry and tags.he lets bulls tramp lease land all winter. he should get his herd number taken off him .his bulls would have no bvd or any other disease free staus.


    my brother hired a bull off him on a few occasions but not in the last five years at least , always thought he was a bit of a chancer but then again , thier is no such thing as a straight monaghan man , hadnt him pegged for a thug though , his bulls were nothing special and the truth of the matter is that you would just as cheaply buy a modestly priced bull , let him do his job and sell him on without spending any more than it would take to pay mr bull lender


  • #13
    irishh_bob
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    reilig wrote: »
    You won't buy a bull for 1000. Sure any animal that's over 500kg is making at least 1200. Dealers are going around all the bull sales to buy all the bulls at under 1700 for the factory.

    I'm a firm believer that you get what you pay for. If you buy a bull for 1000 it will be reflected in the sale price of your calves!!

    you will get a bull for a grand ( angus ) , we got a hereford for 1200 at a multi breed sale in carnaross last may , great animal with superb calves out of him


  • #14
    sh1tstirrer
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    I know a man hiring bulls €500 for the season and feed the bull yourself :eek: I hired a bull once to clean up after AI, never again. He put 5 cows incalf and fattened himself up in the process and the man leasing him hounded me to hire bulls off him for three years after. The year after I bought an angus bull for €1100 kept him for 3 seasons before the end of the 3rd season I sold him for breeding at a mart bull sale for €1500 :)


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