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AI company wants to buy calves

  • 08-02-2012 11:21pm
    #1
    Freejin
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭


    Hi All

    We have a Holstein dairy herd at home and use AI.

    Last week we got 3 phone calls from different AI companies enquiring about two bull calves born on the farm this year. They may be interested in purchasing the calves from us. They sent kits today for taking hair samples from the tail for geonomic testing.

    Each company will pay €100 to keep the calf on the farm for up to 6 weeks while this testing etc is completed. After that, if they are still interested, they will negotiate a price depending on the EBI returned from the testing. The testing is done by ICBF.

    It states on the letters recived today to only send one test per animal (to avoid wasting time and effort), thus my questions are:

    1) Should we heed the advice to only send one sample per animal thus limiting us to that company?
    2)If we are going with one company over the others, is it better to send to a company with the lowest EBI scores in their catalogue, i.e would they be more likely to buy our calves?

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,705 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    OP have a look here

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76905858

    Maybe you could try sending a pm to some ppl in a similiar situation

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3
    centre 13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭centre 13


    Do the genotyping yourself thru icbf..if one company does it for you they have access to the figures first which may suppress price if a really good bull


  • #4
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭stanflt


    centre 13 wrote: »
    Do the genotyping yourself thru icbf..if one company does it for you they have access to the figures first which may suppress price if a really good bull

    they have to give you the results before an offer- you can contact any company with said results to recieve other offers


  • #5
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    had icbf on to me looking for a yearling,wouldnt mind but the one they are looking for i wasnt going to bull this year as she is too small in my eyes-one of those later calves:D.so if they are going to give 1100 to 1400 for her they can have her


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