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I'm assuming she's a brown sort of a colour being Angus out of a PT? I'm not up to date with AI codes but a calf out of the above will probably come something similar in colouring to the dam. A lot of lad's are gone against brown/black cows if selling weanlings as the resulting progeny are bad seller's. It doesn't matter so much if you're carrying through to store/slaughter.

It doesn't seem a serious price for her all the same but then by the time you calve her and winter the outfit they'll be lots of expense against them come turnout next spring.

Sold 4 bullocks in the mart today for a relation I help out with farming.

April 21 CHx 650kg €1700

May 21 HEx 640kg €1520

July 21 AAx 585kg €1460

October 21 AAx 540kg €1370.

The CHx was a super bullock imo and would have probably made nearer to 2k a month back but there was a few personal issues and they weren't sold until now. They would all probably have came into another bit back a month ago but it is what it is.

His herd isn't QA and the mention of more paperwork and inspections means an automatic no whenever it's brought up even though I'd help with the bookwork. The HEx bullock was fit to kill imo and someone will probably be on to tell me that he'd kill into far more but I thought it a good price tbh coming from a non QA herd. The 2 AAx weighed better than my expectations and when I was loading them this morning I thought a €1400 average would be a good price atm.

They'd have been bought as bits of weanlings in April/May 22 and were on grass only since May. Granted he'd have kept the meal to them over winter but it's a pass time for him as much as anything. The biggest silver lining is that a few replacements should be easier bought in the coming weeks.

I'd struggle to see them killing anything only the HEx but I'm not a beef man. Would he die 330kg coming off a bit of goodish (West of the Shannon mind) grazing only in a bad summer? He was an average suckler bred HEx non QA but well covered.

The CHx would want to be another 100kg at least imo before he'd be near fit but I'm not a finisher.

They were ran in out of the field at half 8 this morning and sold at 12 o'clock so they weren't that well emptied out. A man locally used to always say you could kill any beast but the issue was what they'd die into. You could well be right about them being slaughtered though.

It was a mixed trade imo, anything early 21 born and under 500kg was hard sold imo so perhaps it was because the heavier cattle are going direct to slaughter. All in all I thought they done well given the uncertainty atm, I was expecting a worse price for the HEx being honest.

Was thinking the same myself.

And I say that with a May-2021 heifer who was only 450kg when I weighed her yesterday. It's LMx on her card and she's apparently out of a FRx cow, but there must be Dexter blood in her somewhere. Never sick, doing well, and looked the same as the rest of the calves when she was bought. But that's the nature of buying calves at the mart when more and more cows are following the State-sponsored blueprint. Some of us do have to think of the calves 😀

On the up side, the 2022 calves are doing much better. Bullocks averaged dwg of just over 1kg since 3-March and heifers were 0.85kg. No meal and no dose. I must go thru the numbers properly and come up with something of an autumn plan for them now.

That kill sheet is a credit to you and just goes to show what can be done with a bit of management.