- Location
- somerset
anyone knows the price of pd+ feb/march, hiefers? or if don't know, hazzard a guess !!!
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
Scholsey
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- Location
- Herefordshire
HasthorpeGrange
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Are you buying or selling?
Sold in sept/Oct for Feb/march calvers is 800 depending on the group. Maybe a touch more if there real quality touch less if some dogs on board.
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Damp morning, seemed a good day to commission the new cow steps/track. So fired a temp hot wire down both sides and let them go. Then spent ten minutes trying to convince them to use the new exit at the opposite to normal end of the shed. 
seemed to go ok.
seemed to go ok.£800???
So glad I put on my incontinence pants this morning. P!ssed myself laughing. You wouldn't even get maidens for that money. That includes south of the border for xbred.
jimmer
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- Location
- East Devon
Yeah spoke to a few over there, they want more money as said, but you pick the best and they get delivered. Big difference between that and taking a complete mob and being ex farm.
Dead Rabbits
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- Location
- 'Merica
Stay away from sale barns and buy entire herds or groups without rejecting any and you’d be surprised what people will accept.
As said before, farmer sells his cows in a market and they average £1200. Looks great. The 30% that go to the factory the following week for 450 make the average some what more realistic.
point of calving 10k heifers from Belgium where 1250 I think too @pappuller? Maybe wrong country? Market reports are already reading as if the bbl has run out
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
I had heard it said but not personally bought any, prices still strong at local markets round here
I don’t doubt what you’re saying but can’t understand how you can buy whole herd for £800 when I’m getting same for 600kg straight out of the parlour 10 year old Frisian.
Because a xbred out the parlour is 350 quid
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Do any other block calvers get nervus when they had all their cows dry for the first time. Currently trying to get through a long list of jobs befor calving starts, like everthing cash flow costs always greater than i had hoped, is it normal to kind of want to start milking again very soon! Always anxious i may of cocked up AI dates, or scanning not right!
- Location
- somerset
Yep. All cows through the race for tb test last 2 days, 2 weeks from calving. They didn't even look in calve. Then fought what a disaster that would be.
£1800/deliverd from Germany one of my guys quoted me and that was late February. But these were decent cattle.
lazy farmer
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- Location
- som/dor border
Nope. I hate the first cow calving. Regardless of how tight money is and believe me money has been tight!
How long have you hated the start of calving?
I love getting going again, presents the opportunity to better previous years results and the farm feels alive when the cows are all in milk and tipping away nicely.