Rearing calves

Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Trying to find a batch of calves for rearing that have NOT been through a market .
Ideally not out of holstein cows . 100 miles radius of Hereford 1 month old +
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
find a block calving herd, or herds, locally, certain an 'arrangement' could sort you out. You don't say what breed/s you want, or, how many you want at a time. We sell all calves, we don't want, privately to repeat farmers, even the 4 jersey bull calves £30 head.
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Not many dairy herd around here now.
Mainly want sim,lim, bb, or aa .
A batch of 15 /20 .
Had a nice batch in couple of months ago all same herd number but they have none at the moment.
Plenty got calves for sale but they are all 'bunched up' from markets . ....not really what I want .
Thankyou for reply .
 

Celt83

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Livestock Farmer
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som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
Not many dairy herd around here now.
Mainly want sim,lim, bb, or aa .
A batch of 15 /20 .
Had a nice batch in couple of months ago all same herd number but they have none at the moment.
Plenty got calves for sale but they are all 'bunched up' from markets . ....not really what I want .
Thankyou for reply .
still best solution is to find a dairy farmer, the potential benefits are huge, we vaccinate against rota virus, a big plus for rearers, and all our calves have had plenty of colostrum, they are fed right through on stored acidified colostrum. Get the right 'deal' calves could be vaccinated, or fed, to your wishes, diseases such as johnes, could be avoided.
To the farmer, no mkt commission, haulage, or wasted time, knowledge they will go, as wanted.
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
still best solution is to find a dairy farmer, the potential benefits are huge, we vaccinate against rota virus, a big plus for rearers, and all our calves have had plenty of colostrum, they are fed right through on stored acidified colostrum. Get the right 'deal' calves could be vaccinated, or fed, to your wishes, diseases such as johnes, could be avoided.
To the farmer, no mkt commission, haulage, or wasted time, knowledge they will go, as wanted.
That's the way I'm hoping to go . 👍
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
still best solution is to find a dairy farmer, the potential benefits are huge, we vaccinate against rota virus, a big plus for rearers, and all our calves have had plenty of colostrum, they are fed right through on stored acidified colostrum. Get the right 'deal' calves could be vaccinated, or fed, to your wishes, diseases such as johnes, could be avoided.
To the farmer, no mkt commission, haulage, or wasted time, knowledge they will go, as wanted.
Add me to your list if you have some to sell .
 

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