Northeastfarmer
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Well that's just insaneSeen the really poor stirks make £300 at 24 months old before..
Well that's just insaneSeen the really poor stirks make £300 at 24 months old before..
Well that's just insane
That's the beauty of an auction martYou see it all at sedge... But there is nearly always a buyer for any type of stock.
That's the beauty of an auction mart
quite right, it must be an art to do them so badlyIf you want to see some very poorly farmed cattle then take a trip to sedge one sat as some they get in are an utter disgrace as @Henarar can confirm.
There were some Lim stores on sat in the store ring that came from a dairy farm, these cattle were basically skin and bone and must have been living on thin air!
I would be and its about when we send our blue cross animals to have back for the freezer,Interesting averages - it makes me feel a bit better about what our steers achieve during their lives, (which works out at about 0.7 - 0.8 kg /day), since they are rare breed cattle and totally grass fed. We are still not very experienced but they seem to take until about 27 - 28 months to be ready but not too fat. We are definitely not starving them, preferring for them to grow steadily, but of course others would not be satisfied with this
I take the woodheads averages with a pinch of salt. They don't allow for a carcase weight at birth ie. 24kg so are immediately skewed to start with.
Doesn't that make the figures even worse?