Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
You’d be better off selling store as well no doubt .
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
You may as well of cut the middle man out yourself...
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Just because they did it doesn’t mean it paid. Lots of people have tried it and done no good, cattle fed to be sold as stores don’t die the same. Even meat men only usually do it if they’re desperate. It would pay to weigh forward stores and work out a reserve from it
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I know it didn’t. I always think the most profitable time to sell stores is straight off their mam...they never look any dearer
- Location
- North Yorkshire
If you breed them no doubt you are right. I think they will get dearer every sucker sale season as numbers reduce to fight over. Add the ever rising costs of wintering them for hill farmers I can’t see why any wouldn’t just wean and ship them straight out in October/March
livestock 1
Member
The difference between £700 and £1200 that’s why
livestock 1
Member
Who said I fed them as stores?
I can guarantee the person that bought them is a very good judge of what cattle are
livestock 1
Member
I was doing the whole lot but found selling stores easier that selling finished cattle
That’s maybe not the case now
- Location
- Hereford
I would rather send finished cattle to Hfd as stores than take them to Ludlow as finished cattle !
Tin hat on !
Tin hat on !
livestock 1
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That’s where I was a few years ago
I think sometimes others can sell them better
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
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livestock 1
Member
When they are big stores I like to have them motoring for folks to finish
- Location
- North Yorkshire
No offence intended, I meant you had done right. I have bought some hard store heifers myself to polish up and move on as stores, fed them more cheaply on oats and good silage, they have fed like morks, av. 1.7kg/day and some look fit to kill after 90 days but I doubt they would kill like if they had been on ad-lib barley. I keep looking and think I should kill them but there always seems to be a farmer round the ring who feels he can make a better job than me so I might let him get on with it
I’m with you on that one, scales seem to work different to the norm
- Location
- Hereford
And plenty of fat buyers around the store ring in HerefordI’m with you on that one, scales seem to work different to the norm
livestock 1
Member
Stores up here are a bit of a competitive job
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Friend and neighbour took 10 onWednesday came home delighted. The bank of Woodhead would appear to be a wonderful thing
- Location
- Fife
Where they going?
Bakewell... got another 20 ready and 15 cull ewes too go but no room on the trailer so might try somewhere new later in the week