The bull is in with the bullers already.
Flying herds
- Thread starter HasthorpeGrange
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dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Everyone will be serving everything to beef and buy in. A blue bull would buy a buller, at the moment
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Presumably bullers are cheap at the moment because there isn’t a lot of spare fodder about, do those bullers look so cheap If you have to buy in all the feed and bedding to keep them through to next spring? There’s plenty out there who are going to struggle to feed what they’ve got without buying more.
I wouldn’t base long term decisions on the current market place , a bottom in market price at the moment is likely to be followed by a peak some time next year when hopefully the fodder situation will be more normal and some will find themselves under stocked.
There’s almost certainly a decent profit to be had if you’re in a situation where you can carry these cheap heifers over the winter.
Had enough.com
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What money were milkers?
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
I've been thinking that for a while and that's what everyone said in the milk price crash. The Ai companies were telling us everyone's using beef and there will be a shortage of dairy stock,. doesn't seem like that was true!
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
I sold some 10/12 month old fleck x heifers yesterday privately from home @£575 to a farmer who's dispersed his herd. Lokks like i did well.
I was looking at £12.50 a week in feed and bedding too feed them for the winter and they were still going too push me trying too feed them next summer as well. I'd have been out scouting for grass keep at @£120 a acre.
Best gone and good luck too the man. Hope he does well out of them. He has silage, barley, cubicles and straw. They will be for sale again 8 weeks before calving and there only half hour in the tractor and box away if i want them back.
I was looking at £12.50 a week in feed and bedding too feed them for the winter and they were still going too push me trying too feed them next summer as well. I'd have been out scouting for grass keep at @£120 a acre.
Best gone and good luck too the man. Hope he does well out of them. He has silage, barley, cubicles and straw. They will be for sale again 8 weeks before calving and there only half hour in the tractor and box away if i want them back.
happycows
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- Location
- North Devon Cornwall border
Gunnacott or Haywards Heath. Hope you didn't buy the Fleckvieh x.......??
There not here.
HasthorpeGrange
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
How big were these £250 bullers?
- Location
- somerset
big enough to bull ,feb 17, bull will be in this week, pick out a few smaller one pehaps, I feel for the farmer that's selling, but you have to take advantage of the chance to buy at that price