Hereford hrifers

[jacobl741]

Hi all,

Got 3 lovely purebred (named sire) red Hereford heifers all about 2 years old. They have done great this summer I would say they weight around 700kg each. Nice sorts would suit breeding, can anyone give me a rough idea of current value?

Cheers

 

[beefandsleep]

Hi all,

Got 3 lovely purebred (named sire) red Hereford heifers all about 2 years old. They have done great this summer I would say they weight around 700kg each. Nice sorts would suit breeding, can anyone give me a rough idea of current value?

Cheers

£1200 hung up if you’re farm assured, they aren’t fit for breeding if they’re 700kgs at 24minths.

 

[jacobl741]

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[beefandsleep]

Lovely heifers, you might be overestimating their weight.

 

[jacobl741]

If I was to enter them into a store/breeding sale or sell privately what sort of price do you think I’d be looking at?

 

[Werzle]

Hi all,

Got 3 lovely purebred (named sire) red Hereford heifers all about 2 years old. They have done great this summer I would say they weight around 700kg each. Nice sorts would suit breeding, can anyone give me a rough idea of current value?

Cheers

£750-800

 

[beefandsleep]

With no knowledge of the breeding behind them it would be impossible to say but commercially as breeding animals I would value them at between 8 and 900 pounds.

 

[beefandsleep]

That’s if you can find someone who wants to bull them of course, as stores, £700-750

 

[applejack]

Location would help, prices can vary.

 

[jacobl741]

Location would help, prices can vary.

Location is Derbyshire near Buxton

 

[Woolless]

They look nice heifers. Might have been better bulled over the summer to calve next spring at 30 months if you were going down the breeding route with them?

 

[M-J-G]

£1200 hung up if you’re farm assured, they aren’t fit for breeding if they’re 700kgs at 24minths.

Really?
Isn't that a big enough cow?

 

[CharcoalWally]

With no knowledge of the breeding behind them it would be impossible to say but commercially as breeding animals I would value them at between 8 and 900 pounds.

That’s if you can find someone who wants to bull them of course, as stores, £700-750

God, it's like watching the Antiques Roadshow, or Cash in the Attic, or that show where people who know nothing about antiques humiliate themselves by losing money on antiques..........

 

[gone up the hill]

If I was to enter them into a store/breeding sale or sell privately what sort of price do you think I’d be looking at?

Cracking heifers and a real credit to you

I don't like to say it but they are more like 450 kilos looking at the pics.

Don't sell them too cheap, sale at the local market for brown Herefords the other day and they were making crazy money ( cows and calves ) would be such a shame if they end up in a fattening shed and not with a bull.

 

[beefandsleep]

Best way, take them to Bakewell on Monday.

 

[beefandsleep]

Really?
Isn't that a big enough cow?

If a Hereford heifer is 700 kg at 24m then she is likely grading a 5H and is ruined for breeding. Those heifers are closer to 450 though and should be well in calf at that age imo, I would not consider them suitable for bulling personally and wouldn’t pay a premium over store price for them, nice as they are. If I bought them they would likely be dead within 3 months and would probably not make £1000 so their store value to me would be 7-750 and dear at that.

 

[M-J-G]

If a Hereford heifer is 700 kg at 24m then she is likely grading a 5H and is ruined for breeding. Those heifers are closer to 450 though and should be well in calf at that age imo, I would not consider them suitable for bulling personally and wouldn’t pay a premium over store price for them, nice as they are. If I bought them they would likely be dead within 3 months and would probably not make £1000 so their store value to me would be 7-750 and dear at that.

Ok, I wonderd what your theory was.

 

[M-J-G]

Cracking heifers and a real credit to you

I don't like to say it but they are more like 450 kilos looking at the pics.

Don't sell them too cheap, sale at the local market for brown Herefords the other day and they were making crazy money ( cows and calves ) would be such a shame if they end up in a fattening shed and not with a bull.

What do you class as "crazy money"?

Herefords up here are hard to sell as breeders, black Hereford x dairy sell ok, red (more pure) ones are not in demand as breeding females at all.

 

[Henarar]

@jacobl741 have you got or could you access some weights ? it would be interesting to know what they do weigh

 

[gone up the hill]

What do you class as "crazy money"?

Herefords up here are hard to sell as breeders, black Hereford x dairy sell ok, red (more pure) ones are not in demand as breeding females at all.

Would have to look up to see what they made but from memory they made as much if not a lot more than contx suckler cows!

Getting very hard down here to get half decent Her x dairy heifers that are any good!

Those cattle in the OP need to be put to the Hereford bull the first year for ease of calving then put to a char the following year, calves will sell like hot cakes on a cold winters day!