Beef fattening units

casper74

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Location
North Yorkshire
Any reasons why ? as an extra to what you already fatten.
It's just not for me, I want to be in control of my cattle and have them at home. I've bought them and need to see them and moniter them myself, I'm not saying i'm the master of fattening cattle, far from it, I'm always willing to learn off others. Just not my ideal way to fatten cattle.
 

Northern territory

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Livestock Farmer
It's just not for me, I want to be in control of my cattle and have them at home. I've bought them and need to see them and moniter them myself, I'm not saying i'm the master of fattening cattle, far from it, I'm always willing to learn off others. Just not my ideal way to fatten cattle.
totally agree just wondered whether it was possibly more cost effective than taking on more cattle and feeding them yourself with all the extra inputs bought in.
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
I suppose when you think about it, it’s only the same maths with store lambs? As in If I went up north, bought lambs. Put them straight on a decker and sent them too the likes of @unlacedgecko or @Mc115reed too be shepherded and fed then I send a wagon too get them when finished. But with much bigger numbers involved?

I've several customers who do that with sheep.

And I've recently sold a dog to someone who buys weaned calves, grazes them for 2 summers then sends them to a contract finisher.
 
It's just not for me, I want to be in control of my cattle and have them at home. I've bought them and need to see them and moniter them myself, I'm not saying i'm the master of fattening cattle, far from it, I'm always willing to learn off others. Just not my ideal way to fatten cattle.

It's the same with people contract rearing dairy heifers. It relies heavily on trust in both directions.
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
It's the same with people contract rearing dairy heifers. It relies heavily on trust in both directions.
Precisely. Nail on the head. I couldn’t do it, like @casper74 says if it’s in your control at gone it makes you feel better.
If I make a 🐓 up of a batch, I can usually find what I did wrong and shoulder the blame. But if they were somewhere else? How do you tell the difference between neglect and an honest mistake? There are just enough “fly by night” types taking sheep for contract shepherding around (several have bitten mates of mine) that I just don’t dare try it.
 

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer
I suppose when you think about it, it’s only the same maths with store lambs? As in If I went up north, bought lambs. Put them straight on a decker and sent them too the likes of @unlacedgecko or @Mc115reed too be shepherded and fed then I send a wagon too get them when finished. But with much bigger numbers involved?
I’m not quite on that kind of agreement but not far off really I have about 2000 ewe lambs at the minute off 7 different people.. most are they’re own replacements 1 bloke sells them on as shearlings… 4 of them are off TFF actually ☺️👌… I try too avoid taking in fattening lambs because I don’t want too be blamed for them not hitting a respectable growth rate or not being finished when I run out of grub for them…
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
I’m not quite on that kind of agreement but not far off really I have about 2000 ewe lambs at the minute off 7 different people.. most are they’re own replacements 1 bloke sells them on as shearlings… 4 of them are off TFF actually ☺️👌… I try too avoid taking in fattening lambs because I don’t want too be blamed for them not hitting a respectable growth rate or not being finished when I run out of grub for them…
You got the general gist though…😉

not sure wether having sheep from TFF members is a good thing? If it goes wrong you could be up before the TFF magistrates before a full character assassination… ☺️☺️😂
 

Mc115reed

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Livestock Farmer
You got the general gist though…😉

not sure wether having sheep from TFF members is a good thing? If it goes wrong you could be up before the TFF magistrates before a full character assassination… ☺️☺️😂
😂😂😂 the TFF Members are the only ones I don’t have too remind too pay there invoices 🙄🤦‍♂️ Bloody welshmen always seem too need a prod though
 

Celt83

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Livestock Farmer
When Grandad used too run hay and straw into Wales he reckoned there was no “middle ground” with you guys. 😂 it was either “come up the house, the Mrs will pay you and you’ll have too have something too eat before you go” or a grunt and an argument about the cheque! 😂😂
Tell him times have changed! Cheques are a thing of the past, we use mobile banking now.

I'll still grunt while he be chewing on a Welsh cake, and will probably have an argument while I press the send button.

Some traditions are hard to shift! 😂
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
When Grandad used too run hay and straw into Wales he reckoned there was no “middle ground” with you guys. 😂 it was either “come up the house, the Mrs will pay you and you’ll have too have something too eat before you go” or a grunt and an argument about the cheque! 😂😂
I'm very lucky in that all my Welsh customers are the former.
 

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