Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

[sheepwise]

Tell me about it, the calves should go on and do anywhere. Why's it so long since you bought any?

You don't have any charolais now.

 

[Optimus]

Problem coming is that all these experts and consultants are advocating spring calving which is going to result in a real shortage of backend calves for the finishers.

Yes ,no point in all cattle been finished at the same time.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

£30 odd per hour just to talk shyte

I do that for less than 50p/hour…

 

[AftonShepherd]

I do that for less than 50p/hour…

50p less? If not, I can undercut you!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

@thorpe what was the trade on Saturday? Were those in calfers any use? And what were those young bulls?

 

[neilo]

Have calved at 24 months up until now but the owners want to head towards outwintering and massively reducing hard feeding so they'll struggle to grow big enough. We don't have the acreage of good ground to grow decent forage crops so they're only on deferred hill grazing and bales to supplement where required.

As don't want to calve twice a year, 36 months is the next option and they're not costing much other than lost opportunity to get there.

Back home on the dairy unit, we used to calve at 3 yr old too, as unfashionable as it is.
If you have cheap/rough grazing to run them over to grow on steadily then I really can't see that it's necessarily a mistake.

Prior to robots, our heifers used to calve in, then run in one big group of 250 milkers with concs through OOPFs. 2 yr old heifers would have struggled to compete in that scenario imo.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Will someone just get on and buy that Haylage from @Mc115reed !!! It’s getting really tedious on Facebook, poor lad is touting it on every page he can!!

 

[thorpe]

@thorpe what was the trade on Saturday? Were those in calfers any use? And what were those young bulls?

didn,t see many cow's overheard some incalver's at 1400, bull's didn't take much notice richard r had the better one's. didn't think there was anything up the top for us but we had 8 . the big lad got loaded and got off and i had 7 more down the bottom . i thought they were back a bit but looking at them at home i'm not sure. the av+50 plenty of bone but not much else

 

[thorpe]

didn,t see many cow's overheard some incalver's at 1400, bull's didn't take much notice richard r had the better one's. didn't think there was anything up the top for us but we had 8 . the big lad got loaded and got off and i had 7 more down the bottom . i thought they were back a bit but looking at them at home i'm not sure. the av+50 plenty of bone but not much else

oh ed nield had the incalver's

 

[livestock 1]

@thorpe what was the trade on Saturday? Were those in calfers any use? And what were those young bulls?

What sort of an incalfer do you get for £1400 down your end?

 

[livestock 1]

It would be one better not having up here

 

[Rich_ard]

Will someone just get on and buy that Haylage from @Mc115reed !!! It’s getting really tedious on Facebook, poor lad is touting it on every page he can!!

Is it good quality?

 

[Rich_ard]

It would be one better not having up here

Are you wanting a few?

 

[Blue.]

Back home on the dairy unit, we used to calve at 3 yr old too, as unfashionable as it is.
If you have cheap/rough grazing to run them over to grow on steadily then I really can't see that it's necessarily a mistake.

Prior to robots, our heifers used to calve in, then run in one big group of 250 milkers with concs through OOPFs. 2 yr old heifers would have struggled to compete in that scenario imo.

Big wooden heifers never last,always told heifers get pushed out but never have here.

 

[thorpe]

What sort of an incalfer do you get for £1400 down your end?

i'm not a suckler man but they looked good honest cattle, prob strong dairy blue's 2nd calver's , dispersal.

 

[thorpe]

i'm not a suckler man but they looked good honest cattle, prob strong dairy blue's 2nd calver's , dispersal.

shame for em to die!

 

[livestock 1]

Are you wanting a few?

Unfortunately yes

 

[Mc115reed]

Will someone just get on and buy that Haylage from @Mc115reed !!! It’s getting really tedious on Facebook, poor lad is touting it on every page he can!!

Literally can’t give the f**king stuff away

 

[neilo]

Big wooden heifers never last,always told heifers get pushed out but never have here.

Always lasted well enough there, on the same system we’d always done (cheap/cr*p keep next door).

Water under the bridge now though. Since I was pushed out by the OM, the dairy cows all went inside 5 years. Huge shame, but such is life.
Families, eh.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Literally can’t give the f**king stuff away

Is it sheep quality?