Calf prices 2016

keep going

Would I rnt ground to rear beef animals, no.
would I pay labour to rear beef animals, no
would I drive 5 miles to see them every day, no.
if you rearing calves sell to the summer grazer in march/aprl
dont go fattening unless youve got the money in the bank to do it
an early calf is worth twice a later calf
The right fr bull calf is the best paying animal bar none
in the beef game you need to be thinking 12 months ahead
silage is expensive, ration is cheap
the best way a dairy farmer can make money out of beef is double r treble sucking high cell count cows(alot of money comes from qualifyingfor bonus)
If you have the land, pay no labour ,have the housing already paid for qnd are a good stock person you will make money out of calves at this years prices

Henwin

Hey, wat wud 2 week old pedigree registered Holstein Friedan heifer calves making at the mart anyone know, surplus to requirements here

mahoney_j

Henwin wrote: »

Hey, wat wud 2 week old pedigree registered Holstein Friedan heifer calves making at the mart anyone know, surplus to requirements here

All depends on breeding and ebi .if selling heifer cslves get them genotyped as well .could make as much as 500

Ruxin

mahoney_j wrote: »

All depends on breeding and ebi .if selling heifer cslves get them genotyped as well .could make as much as 500

How much is it to get them genotyed going to have a fair few surplus ones here as well.

barnaman

50 to 40 euro per head for heifer calves. I think to get the 40 you have to get all 2016 calves tested.

mahoney_j

Ruxin wrote: »

How much is it to get them genotyed going to have a fair few surplus ones here as well.

Females 30 euro

marathon

Any prices on friesin bull calves?

barnaman

mahoney_j wrote: »

Ruxin wrote: »

How much is it to get them genotyed going to have a fair few surplus ones here as well.

Females 30 euro

Is that the price for pedigree registered? Pretty cheap at 30

mahoney_j

barnaman wrote: »

Is that the price for pedigree registered? Pretty cheap at 30

Plus 15 euro for cert from robbing backstards in the Ihfa .

alps

mahoney_j wrote: »

Plus 15 euro for cert from robbing backstards in the Ihfa .

Stopped registering for this year.....not sure it's the right or wrong thing to do.....but it was a cost waiting to be cut....

Timmaay

alps wrote: »

Stopped registering for this year.....not sure it's the right or wrong thing to do.....but it was a cost waiting to be cut....

Didn't pay my IHFA membership for a good while (got lost between changing banks and direct debits), eventually got around to it, and the next month got in about 50 backdated certs and an 800quid bill, 2bh very sorry I didn't just ignore the bloody IHFA membership...

Brown Podzol

Timmaay wrote: »

Didn't pay my IHFA membership for a good while (got lost between changing banks and direct debits), eventually got around to it, and the next month got in about 50 backdated certs and an 800quid bill, 2bh very sorry I didn't just ignore the bloody IHFA membership...

Wondering myself if it makes any difference. What's the benefit? Are pedigree registered commanding more compo in a tb breakdown? All ancestry details and records on ICBF anyway. Big book arrived in the post today from IHFA, personalised dairy cow report for 2016, all of which info is more readily avalaible from ICBF online. Salaries, pensions and reams of paper.

Greengrass1

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Wondering myself if it makes any difference. What's the benefit? Are pedigree registered commanding more compo in a tb breakdown? All ancestry details and records on ICBF anyway. Big book arrived in the post today from IHFA, personalised dairy cow report for 2016, all of which info is more readily avalaible from ICBF online. Salaries, pensions and reams of paper.

We got the big book today off icbf and didn't have to pay any ihfa membership

whelan2

Often wondered about the cost of postage on all those books. Another thing is there no communication between icbf and ihfa. Can they not do a check if a calf has died in the week or so after birth and when they do the cert. Have a good few certs here for calves that were dead when the cert arrived.

pedigree 6

marathon wrote: »

Any prices on friesin bull calves?

Sold 5 Friesian bull calves in enniscorthy today from 100 to 145.
Depends on the calf and who's around the ring.
Neighbour got up to 210 for a Friesian bull calf but that was on a cow.
Then other farmers were getting 60 and 70 for sharper softer calves.

marathon

I am in the market for a few of them. The last time I was in enniscorthy the dealers were bidding up the friesens

freedominacup

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Wondering myself if it makes any difference. What's the benefit? Are pedigree registered commanding more compo in a tb breakdown? All ancestry details and records on ICBF anyway. Big book arrived in the post today from IHFA, personalised dairy cow report for 2016, all of which info is more readily avalaible from ICBF online. Salaries, pensions and reams of paper.

Makes a huge difference in the event of a th breakdown. Milk recording and pedigrees are cheap insurance against losses in the event of a breakdown.

whelan2

Was talking to my uncle from Newry today he is buying fr bull calves around 10 days old from £30-40 , angus £150

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Was talking to my uncle from Newry today he is buying fr bull calves around 10 days old from £30-40 , angus £150

I'm not surprised as there seems to be a price collapse for veal calves in Spain.

mahoney_j

orm0nd wrote: »

would you not have more customers if they were castrated ? usually sell ex yard here to repeat customers, none of them would touch bulls

Sold today
Fr Bulls 385 kg 550
Bb bull. 375 kg 890
He Bulls 355 kg 735
He bullocks 360 kg 870
I should of castrated all the he Bulls .....,all he and Bb stock born March/early April 15 ,freisans born throughout Feb to mid March .nice ball of cash for such a huge amount of work ......

joejobrien

Sold Fr bulls yesterday at Nenagh
155 to 90
Age 11 days to 18 days.
Trade much faster in comparsion terms from week before.

red bull

What are limousin x heifer calves making

Mulumpy

red bull wrote:

What are limousin x heifer calves making

I bought six three week olds off a farm last week for 280 each.

jfh

Mulumpy wrote: »

I bought six three week olds off a farm last week for 280 each.

Good value there

Butcher Boy

In skib mart today the ass is after falling out of the calf prices completely,plenty AA bulls and heifers for 150 and less .you would want a great fr bull to make 90 .

Cavanjack

mahoney_j wrote: »

Sold today
Fr Bulls 385 kg 550
Bb bull. 375 kg 890
He Bulls 355 kg 735
He bullocks 360 kg 870
I should of castrated all the he Bulls .....,all he and Bb stock born March/early April 15 ,freisans born throughout Feb to mid March .nice ball of cash for such a huge amount of work ......

Was it worth rearing the friesians? Great weights for their age. Whoever bought them (fr) will surely have a few pound out of it.

mahoney_j

Cavanjack wrote: »

Was it worth rearing the friesians? Great weights for their age. Whoever bought them (fr) will surely have a few pound out of it.

Proab not but I have the land(fragmented )and sheds in place .i sold some other commerades of these last November ,weighed 100 kg less for circa 500 ,I'll be selling more next November ......all my freisans will be balanced out by some Bulls I'll be selling through April for breeding ,these will be going for 15/1800 each

Reggie.

Bought six 5 week old AA bull calves for €320.

farmerjj

Reggie. wrote: »

Bought six 5 week old AA bull calves for €320.

Is that the going rate?

moll3

neighbour bought 12 fr bulls 3 weeks old @ mart 40 euro each:eek:

Bullocks

Reggie. wrote: »

Bought six 5 week old AA bull calves for €320.

How much milk will you give them before weaning ?

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

Bought six 5 week old AA bull calves for €320.

Reckon you got the deal of the year
Calves are making that sort of money in the marts. Not much more milk to go into them. OAD from now if their not already on it.

Reggie.

Bullocks wrote: »

How much milk will you give them before weaning ?

I wean them at 10 weeks if I can. Should be about 5 bags of milk needed

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

Reckon you got the deal of the year
Calves are making that sort of money in the marts. Not much more milk to go into them. OAD from now if their not already on it.

That's the plan.

Reggie.

moll3 wrote: »

neighbour bought 12 fr bulls 3 weeks old @ mart 40 euro each:eek:

Had lads ringing me to take FR calves off them or if I knew anyone looking for tgem

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

Had lads ringing me to take FR calves off them or if I knew anyone looking for tgem

Me, me, me ....

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

Me, me, me ....

What are you paying?

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

What are you paying?

Depends on the calf and I would have to see them.
Is Gerry or Kevin not buying from you for export?

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

Depends on the calf and I would have to see them.
Is Gerry or Kevin not buying from you?

No a farmer from monaghan. Wanted ten has taken 20 so far! Paid on day so happy enough. Think he has enough now.

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

No a farmer from monaghan. Wanted ten has taken 20 so far! Paid on day so happy enough. Think he has enough now.

Better off that way although the company that Gerry buys for pay within the week.
Going to have a proper look and hopefully buy 20 odd FR bull calves from my dairy farmer friend that I gave Daisy's heifer too. Most of them are 3 weeks old. We collect/buy his JEx bull calves.

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

Me, me, me ....

Talk to kevin. He has them

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

Talk to kevin. He has them

Surprised that someone buying for an exporter is trying to make a profit. Not good practice in my book. Thankfully I'm not a dairy farmer selling FR bull calves to him.

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

Surprised that someone buying for an exporter is trying to make a profit. Not good practice in my book. Thankfully I'm not a dairy farmer selling FR bull calves to him.

He normally fills orders for farmers too, wondering what price is being offered by exporter as people wont sell if price is really crap.

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

Surprised that someone buying for an exporter is trying to make a profit. Not good practice in my book. Thankfully I'm not a dairy farmer selling FR bull calves to him.

The exporters haven't come to him yet he said. These are local farmers ringing him to move them on.

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

The exporters haven't come to him yet he said. These are local farmers ringing him to move them on.

Saves me ringing him so :cool:

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Saves me ringing him so :cool:

He said his heart was broke with farmers ringing him to off load FR lately

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

The exporters haven't come to him yet he said. These are local farmers ringing him to move them on.

Wonder is it the same Kevin we are talking about. The lad I'm thinking of is from Whelan's country.

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

Wonder is it the same Kevin we are talking about. The lad I'm thinking of is from Whelan's country.

Yep the same kevin S

Base price

Reggie. wrote: »

Yep the same kevin S

Nice lad. I thought that you may have meant the ex-con.
I think the price for calves in Spain maybe affecting exports from here although I was talking to farmers that are selling calves to export agents.

Reggie.

Base price wrote: »

Nice lad. I thought that you may have meant the ex-con.
I think the price for calves in Spain maybe affecting exports from here although I was talking to farmers that are selling calves to export agents.

Mentioned that to him and he said he heard nothing about it