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He was a serious well made animal to have that weight on him and still not be fully finished. The likes of him needed at least another months feeding.

How long after wrapping bales can you feed them? Grass needs a chance to come back.

Had he not been castrated he would have been that weight 10 months earlier.

Just over 1kg liveweight per day 870 days in 29 months

You're right. My mistake.

Lining up some cattle with a factory. its a given things are backed up. Word from them is that shed cattle made up 80-85% of its kill last week at nearly the end of June. Whether these are are farmers cattle or feedlot stock that will be interesting figures for the month of june.

I'd like some opinions on that too, only with chx/lmx heifers!

I'd hate letting ones like yours go before they were fully fit but I suppose it's a case of how many more kilos do you think they will put on and what might those kilos be worth in September...+ more grass for your other stock if you let them off now.

I'm holding on to mine for a good while yet but it's a small bunch and probably pigheadedness on my part..

There is advantages of driving HEX and AA up into 4-/=. You will start to get R grade cattle in them. This can take HE from O=/+ into R-. You are rewarded by both weight and the R grade price with is 12c/kg higher than the O+ price.

However I agree with you I be tricking them away in 2&3's as they become very fit. While a lot of lads do not feed HE and AA it might pay to start drafting and feeding in small bunches 5-6 @2kgs of maize or/and barley coins really change the confirmation of these cattle.

Killed 8 friesians last week. There was 1XO+, 1XO=, 6XO- and one P+. I probably should not have drafted the P+, two to three weeks feeding would have probably got him into O-. However I think you have to keep them moving. It about the getting as many as possible into O grade. I taught I might have 1-2 more O=. They averaged 330 kgs and 1600 euro.

The difference between a P+ and an O- is 60 euro + the extra weight. The extra on the grading pays for the ration. The extra weight is profit and the fact they are gone off the farm.

Hope to draft 6-8 more in 3-4 weeks time.

I'd say you are at nothing negotiating. There's no wiggle room now.

Well, have had cattle sent away on nights before, and have seen them killed the next morning, even before they went up the kill line, they were lying back in the pens, chewing there cuds, full as ticks.

Bass may be right but to the naked eye, the cattle can still be full.

Would never send cattle the evening before. Younger cattle are affected more. It’s just a handier option for the haulier but it’s you that loses.

Some factories want the cattle in the night before to have them through the computer and ready to the line to start killing straightaway and to the chills to ship as early as possible and shorten the working day and no overtime.

What way do lads see thing playing out over the next 2 months. Have a few continentals up on 30 months but barely fit. Was thinking of feeding them another 6 weeks...a 10cent rise would cover the QA reduction. If I kill them I have to try and buy back...not easy in July

the fake meat companies are taking a hammering, how this goes on the other hand will be interesting, for lack of of a better phrase

The organic for the rest of the year is €5.50 for bullock/heifer up to and inc R+. Goes back up to €5.60 November and then €5.70 dec to €5.75 last to weeks of the year. If Organic 10% premium gives a possible idea of base in the ordinary trade.