Same here, problems with Ecoli scour has to make your colostrum management top notch or the calves soon start droppingWe tube every calve even if we've seen it suck. Garantee 3l of mothers colostrum when its been tubed.
Same here, problems with Ecoli scour has to make your colostrum management top notch or the calves soon start droppingWe tube every calve even if we've seen it suck. Garantee 3l of mothers colostrum when its been tubed.
We rear them ourselves nowHave you got any more to sell?
BuitelaarMeadow?
I recognise the ticket, our local martWhich mart was it?
Just stick to what works for yourself.
We tube every calf as soon as we find them. I can't think of the last calf I've lost. Would be 5 or 6 years at least.
We also sell calves in Whitland, although I don't go in to see the calves sell anymore because it's drop and go. You get batches of 3-4 month old calves which fetch the headline prices. I'd say we've averaged Ā£300 for 2-3 week old blues and Ā£250 for heifers this spring, prices have dropped noticeably in the last month.
Not sure about now but a while back there where calves coming into Monmouthshire livestock MKT from Whitland. Must have been a few quid in it to come that far?I was wondering about this Whitland. Maybe the calf buying companies are quite active in the area, so there is less of the top 50% calves. Which is depressing the average at auction. Which is inturn depressing the calf companies?
I'd be telling them to pull their finger out.
I didnāt go look for the cheapest at all..I went to my local market and paid the market value on the day!!!That's the best bit of insight in the last page.
Calling folk lazy or not doing it correctly cos they do it differently isn't the most progressive.
I'm the only one so far that has mentioned routine IGg sampling. Does that make me wrong?
Can send calves off with a recorded level of transfer if the buyer wants. Which is what I took his opening post to want. Then as usual goes and looks for the cheapest
I would say what you have admitted is the companies calves are too dear and the only winners are the vendor and agent.I was wondering about this Whitland. Maybe the calf buying companies are quite active in the area, so there is less of the top 50% calves. Which is depressing the average at auction. Which is inturn depressing the calf companies?
I'd be telling them to pull their finger out.
Depends on the angus, somewhere in the Ā£200's if its a decent oneHow much for Angus heifers? Got someone on their way for one to put on a suckler cow!
I didnāt go look for the cheapest at all..I went to my local market and paid the market value on the day!!!
Iād of happily paid another Ā£50-Ā£60 a head..itās not my fault trade was down on the day is it.
I would say what you have admitted is the companies calves are too dear and the only winners are the vendor and agent.
That don't buy you much at the momentMarket averages would be 250-280 but if the calves are as good as he says then fair enough
whereabouts and what TB area?
Some shapey sorts, that mean some dogs
whereabouts and what TB area?