Buying cattle from private cattle dealers

Swaley · Dec 20, 2020

Hello all,
As the title says buying cattle from private cattle dealers. Just wanting to know what prices are dairy cattle, e.g. fresh calved cows, dry cows.
Many thanks all.

som farmer · Dec 20, 2020

make sure your private dealer is 'ok', if he is, should be allright, cows are rather expensive at the moment, so make sure you get the correct history ! The dealer has to make his margin, but make sure it's not extravagant !

pappuller · Dec 20, 2020

Swaley said:
Hello all,
As the title says buying cattle from private cattle dealers. Just wanting to know what prices are dairy cattle, e.g. fresh calved cows, dry cows.
Many thanks all.

Depends what type of cow you are looking for, why not visit a local weekly/monthly sale of dairy cattle to get a feel for the trade, which as said is rather hot at the moment.

lady muck · Dec 21, 2020

We sell calved heifers to Paul Mason south of the border through our contact at United Auctions and we Find he is a perfect gentleman to do business with. My husband genuinely really likes him. He buys quite a lot of Scottish cattle locally now.

pappuller · Dec 21, 2020

lady muck said:
We sell calved heifers to Paul Mason south of the border through our contact at United Auctions and we Find he is a perfect gentleman to do business with. My husband genuinely really likes him. He buys quite a lot of Scottish cattle locally now.

Know of him and he has a very good reputation round here too.

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