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Fleckvieh - Dual Purpose
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<blockquote data-quote="M-J-G" data-source="post: 241071" data-attributes="member: 1819"><p>No I just sell Fleckvieh for them.</p><p> </p><p>The bull calf value is an interesting one!</p><p> </p><p>Correctly selected sires of any breed shouldn't really give issues with gestations or calving, let's face it plenty of Holstein bull calves are difficult enough to calve and they are still worth frigg all! I've calved 22-24month old beef heifers to fleckvieh sires and they were no bother, and the calves grew like weeds.</p><p> </p><p>The £75 you speak of isn't to be compared to a 35p litre of milk it has to be compared to the profit per litre as the better calf will be born with no extra cost over and above a bad one if all else is the same.</p><p> </p><p>At 5ppl profit (which would be good) £75 is the profit from 1500l of milk sold, if milk profit is less then it is more litres.</p><p> </p><p>Why are all these frail dairy cows going to fall apart and sh!t themselves if they have a half decent sized calf? If they are that frail then the situation is worse than I thought it was and it's definitely time some genetics were getting altered, and rapidly!!!</p><p> </p><p>Lets not forget selling surplus heifers, suckler men are interested in a good fleckvieh heifer these days.</p><p> </p><p>1/3 to 1/4 of the German Fleckvieh herds annual income is generated from selling stock.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M-J-G, post: 241071, member: 1819"] No I just sell Fleckvieh for them. The bull calf value is an interesting one! Correctly selected sires of any breed shouldn't really give issues with gestations or calving, let's face it plenty of Holstein bull calves are difficult enough to calve and they are still worth frigg all! I've calved 22-24month old beef heifers to fleckvieh sires and they were no bother, and the calves grew like weeds. The £75 you speak of isn't to be compared to a 35p litre of milk it has to be compared to the profit per litre as the better calf will be born with no extra cost over and above a bad one if all else is the same. At 5ppl profit (which would be good) £75 is the profit from 1500l of milk sold, if milk profit is less then it is more litres. Why are all these frail dairy cows going to fall apart and sh!t themselves if they have a half decent sized calf? If they are that frail then the situation is worse than I thought it was and it's definitely time some genetics were getting altered, and rapidly!!! Lets not forget selling surplus heifers, suckler men are interested in a good fleckvieh heifer these days. 1/3 to 1/4 of the German Fleckvieh herds annual income is generated from selling stock. [/QUOTE]
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