Northern Ireland Milk Price Tracker

[Bogeyman]

How do ye kill them? I dont do my cows for flys is this the problem?

I just send them to a watery grave.

 

[thunderballs]

Flying is fine if you can get heifers at £1200. This 16 to 2k is madness. Buy a few heifers and the milk cheque is away.

What do you reckon it costs to rear a good heifer to 2yr? £1200 is good buller/Springer money.

 

[t murrr]

Think it alot depends what you want to be at many sheep and suckler men have went into milk and are happy as one said on here worse year milking is better than the best year suckling .Milking is intensive and it would be full time so the day job would be out especially with the big numbers so need to say to yourself what is the positives .Know working for yourself is a massive plus .If a person can pay there Bill's and be able to screw close to what they would get working then go for it .It cost so much to get into any of these games that the price point curve needs to be on the rise not level or falling .These big co op act alot like the beef processors give you a bit to survive but wont fatten ya .Hens houses are too high of spec price point is between 50 -60 Bird big investment

 

[it's not over]

Flying is fine if you can get heifers at £1200. This 16 to 2k is madness. Buy a few heifers and the milk cheque is away.

I'd have to agree with that. I've never bought a cow or a calf yet

 

[Wee Willy]

What do you reckon it costs to rear a good heifer to 2yr? £1200 is good buller/Springer money.

I'm killing beef at 24 months and getting£1000--1300. In the winter there could be near 1T of beef ration in them to finish...dairy heifer does not have that expense. Thinking of changing to rearing replacement. Dairy stock is impossible to buy, always is in the autumn.

 

[Back Row Man]

By one report, that's the second time that tractor has done that, under two owners. Local contractor has had *some* do it too apparently.

What model are we talking about?

 

[The Agrarian]

I don't know anything about Massey's, but I think I recall something like 7614.

 

[jay]

I'm killing beef at 24 months and getting£1000--1300. In the winter there could be near 1T of beef ration in them to finish...dairy heifer does not have that expense. Thinking of changing to rearing replacement. Dairy stock is impossible to buy, always is in the autumn.

A 24 month calving heifer will have got at least half a tonne of meal, the odd one won't go in calf or abort, there will be felon, hard calvings, slow milkers & kickers to weed out.

 

[lazy farmer]

Finally got some grass back in front of them. Hopefully September will be a cheaper month. Though it would nice to keep the solids!

 

[it's not over]

Our summer results are in.... poor......again

 

[Wee Willy]

A 24 month calving heifer will have got at least half a tonne of meal, the odd one won't go in calf or abort, there will be felon, hard calvings, slow milkers & kickers to weed out.

I was talking about the last 90 days, upward of 10kg/head/day,dear knows how much meal before that.
But point taken,it's not all sunshine and roses rearing your own replacement.

 

[Davy]

Have you sold any as forward stores, to see how it compared to taking them on to finish?

 

[Whitewalker]

Have you sold any as forward stores, to see how it compared to taking them on to finish?

That’s a slippery slope , once you do that you end up questioning is it better to sell as drop calves

 

[yin ewe]

That’s a slippery slope , once you do that you end up questioning is it better to sell as drop calves

Everything finished here, much to the annoyance of the auld boy, my argument is that the man who buys the calf or the store is trying to make money, so I may as well have it all.
I'm greedy like that, or maybe it's ambition.

 

[lazy farmer]

View attachment 904904Finally got some grass back in front of them. Hopefully September will be a cheaper month. Though it would nice to keep the solids!

Apologies NI friends I meant to post this in all things dairy ! It wasn’t meant to wind up all you wet weather suffers. ☔️

 

[Whitewalker]

Everything finished here, much to the annoyance of the auld boy, my argument is that the man who buys the calf or the store is trying to make money, so I may as well have it all.
I'm greedy like that, or maybe it's ambition.

 

[it's not over]

Apologies NI friends I meant to post this in all things dairy ! It wasn’t meant to wind up all you wet weather suffers. [emoji299]️

Youve a totally different climate . We have our challenges here....always too much rain

 

[daveydiesel1]

I just send them to a watery grave.

Iv tried washin them onto the sump in the pit and puttin paracetic acid and formaldehyde in the water but stil doesnt kill them. Have man comin to service parlour soon and would like rid of them

 

[Bogeyman]

A 24 month calving heifer will have got at least half a tonne of meal, the odd one won't go in calf or abort, there will be felon, hard calvings, slow milkers & kickers to weed out.
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last year I entered 18 bulling heifers at Local mart ,got vet to check them beforehand had to withdraw 3as they couldn’t breed ,so there’s another issue when buying bullers.

 

[The Agrarian]

How do ye kill them? I dont do my cows for flys is this the problem?

They hatch out into big dopey things like a cross between a bluebottle and a honeybee. But slow. They crawl up out looking for a dry place to hatch, leaving behind black shells like super sized rat droppings.