Buying calves

Or a prevention treatment like rispoval or a coccidiosis dose. Or just marking calves to sell. I don't think I've ever marked a sick calf, so your logic would totally backfire if you were buying off me!

Would spray them after debudding here

I’ve been doing it for about 5 years now and it’s a game changer compared to squeezing at 6-7 months. I do them under 7 days old - they get dehorned, tagged and banded in the one go. Never an issue and as you say, just need to be careful that the two balls are down.

@patsy_mccabe - a correction on the jug of milk powder. 500g would be nearly the full of the jug. I used to use 1 full jug to mix milk for two calves - 2 litres each iykwim.

I finish just under 30 months. I’ve had 2 or 3 years of killing these type of lads. My kill out has gone up on average 20-30kgs in that time. Now I have done a fair bit of reseeding and more paddocks in the system so that will play a part too so can’t definitively say either way but the burdizzo is retired anyways.

I'd start them off on 125g/l until they get used to the cmr. If they are strong calves you can increase it over a few days. Your jug weighing 653g is equivalent to 163g/l to feed two calves two litres each which is about the most I would give and that would be nearer to when they are going to be weaned and on oad feeds - dairy farmers will feed more to replacement heifers but they are a different scenario. I recommend that he get a intranasal vaccine for them for his/her Vet, something like Rispoval RS+PI3 or Bovilis RSP, both come in 5 dose vials.

I find it very disappointing that Carnaross mart are not showing the dam's breed code on the LSL platform considering that they were behind it's development. However they are weighing calves and showing the weights. They used to show the dam breed code up to a couple of months ago - I wonder why they changed . Carrigallen mart (also on LSL) show the dam's breed code in all their rings but don't weigh the calves.

I think DAFM need to contact all livestock marts and ensure that potential buyers both ringside and online have all the information on the blue card regarding livestock that are presented for sale in the ring. I understand that due to GDPR some marts show the sellers name/details (no playback option) and others not. There should be consistency across all the marts that have online presence.

Just as an add on 25-40 day Friesian calves are good value at present 40-70 euro in Gortnalea

When you sell cattle in Carnaross the sellers name and address comes up on the boards in the mart but not on the LSL app on your phone which i find strange. Are all marts on LSL the same?

I fully agree with you @Base price if you are buying on line you should be able to see the same information as if you were in the mart. There is some farmers who stock I would always try to buy if they have what I am looking for when I am buying as previously their stock has done well for me. There has to be a way of showing it on live sales but not on the replays.

They should all also display the dams breed as it would take a little bit of the guess work out of it. There is bou

I rang Gortatlea about this before round the time online began and was told to it was to do with gdpr that the sellers name not shown

I pointed out that other marts were showing it & was given the reply that its not our policy to show it