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Dairy bull beef

  • 03-04-2018 9:21am
    #1
    johnnyw20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭


    Just looking for opinions before I make up my mind this week. Have 6 dairy bred yearlings, 3 hex, 2 frx and a bbx that are a year old to the day. They are still bulls and weigh 400kg

    My options are

    put them in the mart next week

    Castrate them

    Or throw them in the shed and feed them adlib for the next 4 months and try get them into bull beef

    What would be my best option do you reckon?

    Thanks

    Have attached a rough pic of them


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  • #2
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    johnnyw20 wrote: »
    Just looking for opinions before I make up my mind this week. Have 6 dairy bred yearlings, 3 hex, 2 frx and a bbx that are a year old to the day. They are still bulls and weigh 400kg

    My options are

    put them in the mart next week

    Castrate them

    Or throw them in the shed and feed them adlib for the next 4 months and try get them into bull beef

    What would be my best option do you reckon?

    Thanks

    Have attached a rough pic of them

    Mart imo


  • #3
    johnnyw20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭johnnyw20


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Mart imo

    I’m leaning towards that at the moment


  • #4
    cute geoge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,242 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    I saw 400 kg aa yierling bulls (feb)make €1.95kg last week and your probably look better done


  • #5
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    johnnyw20 wrote: »
    Just looking for opinions before I make up my mind this week. Have 6 dairy bred yearlings, 3 hex, 2 frx and a bbx that are a year old to the day. They are still bulls and weigh 400kg

    My options are

    put them in the mart next week

    Castrate them

    Or throw them in the shed and feed them adlib for the next 4 months and try get them into bull beef

    What would be my best option do you reckon?

    Thanks

    Have attached a rough pic of them

    Squeeze the hex and kill before Christmas. You could chance the bbx for 16mts but the 2 x frx would want to be left as bulls and killed at same time as hex. You wont get much for the frx as bulls in mart and bbx cross fr are not great mart sellers.


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