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Your dad was farming in the 20's?
Should have written Grandfather. Dad remembers them though and mentioned it to me as being nothing new.
I wonder when castration was taken up widely originally. Must have been way back?
Your dad was farming in the 20's?
Should have written Grandfather. Dad remembers them though and mentioned it to me as being nothing new.
I wonder when castration was taken up widely originally. Must have been way back?
I would say you should value your barley at the price you could sell it for as this gives you a better idea whether buying them will pay. Barley delivered is £150 ish in Cumbria.What gross margins would you say would be realistic? Based on own barley fed at £100 a ton, a bit for the protein and straw, milk powder £70ish and then the continental Bull calf cost £200...
Would you say £500 is realistic? Before overheads are then taken in account of course...
Think you'd want a deal lined up with someone who does bulls rather than chancing the markets.Contemplating leaving my later born spring calves entire. Probably anything born after 6 weeks into calving. Is there much of a market for store continental bulls this time of year? All suckler bred
Send them up here, they’ll sell like hot cakes if well shapedContemplating leaving my later born spring calves entire. Probably anything born after 6 weeks into calving. Is there much of a market for store continental bulls this time of year? All suckler bred
Probably BSE & the Under 30 Months thing about having them finished young.Diverting this thread off topic a little bit...
Remember when your father and grandfather kept a bullock for two or three years, being fed on turnip, barley, hay, swede, cakemeal etc etc?
Was the taste of the meat from that animal superior to what we have today?
Other than money, why is it not done today?
I know next to nowt about animals...
Aren't feed costs expensive with bull beef
What gross margins would you say would be realistic? Based on own barley fed at £100 a ton, a bit for the protein and straw, milk powder £70ish and then the continental Bull calf cost £200...
Would you say £500 is realistic? Before overheads are then taken in account of course...
What gross margins would you say would be realistic? Based on own barley fed at £100 a ton, a bit for the protein and straw, milk powder £70ish and then the continental Bull calf cost £200...
Would you say £500 is realistic? Before overheads are then taken in account of course...
270kg? What you doing veal?More like IMO, barley / protein feed £170 per ton, would need 2 ton ish.
Continental bull calf capable of grading R or better would be closer to £280. Straw / bedding could be £70 per head per year. Vaccines £8.
Other medication and allowing for some mortality say £30.
Selling price perhaps R4L at 270 KG 350ppkg £945 minus haulage and deductions £920 against costs of £728. Would also have to factor in costs of machinery to feed and bed, as well as labour/time spent on cattle housed all year round. By my back of an envelope calculations it's do able, but lots of other costs can creep up.
I think a Blue bull is more than capable of getting to 325kg dead not 270kg in the time rame suggested...More like IMO, barley / protein feed £170 per ton, would need 2 ton ish.
Continental bull calf capable of grading R or better would be closer to £280. Straw / bedding could be £70 per head per year. Vaccines £8.
Other medication and allowing for some mortality say £30.
Selling price perhaps R4L at 270 KG 350ppkg £945 minus haulage and deductions £920 against costs of £728. Would also have to factor in costs of machinery to feed and bed, as well as labour/time spent on cattle housed all year round. By my back of an envelope calculations it's do able, but lots of other costs can creep up.