Store cattle prices

[Henarar]

Is there a book? I'd love to get it! Iv been messing with poor quality calves and cattle since I was 12, it was all I had money to buy! They have usually came out ok though!

Plenty for you at sedge yesterday then

 

[mushnt grummmble]

I love buying totally starved cattle and turning them around, I try to do a batch every year. Sometimes the starvation has been too much though and they don't grow into much

everyone thinks that way now and the poorer 1s make as much as the better 1s

 

[ridger]

I

everyone thinks that way now and the poorer 1s make as much as the better 1s

I got 10 6 month old calves for 100 pounds each a month ago, bit of care for a month and got lice off them and they looking well now

 

[marshfarmer]

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I got 10 6 month old calves for 100 pounds each a month ago, bit of care for a month and got lice off them and they looking well now

Cant go wrong there, I been dabbling with a few like that, but the last lot have been a dismal failure, I refuse to but them off a certain man now in the hope he gives up buying calves then starving them for 6 months to sell them for less than he paid, but someone else will buy from him, as they been doing it for a lifetime

 

[ridger]

Cant go wrong there, I been dabbling with a few like that, but the last lot have been a dismal failure, I refuse to but them off a certain man now in the hope he gives up buying calves then starving them for 6 months to sell them for less than he paid, but someone else will buy from him, as they been doing it for a lifetime

I don't know how people can starve the cattle so much, but these ones were crawling with lice and very very thin, they stand and eat hay like old cows! They are healthy though! Worst thing is that if starved for too long they never really grow out of it.

 

[Henarar]

Must have watched 200 sold yesterday half of them I wouldn't want to put my name to

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Why would you starve something that you're gonna make money from?!

 

[ridger]

Why would you starve something that you're gonna make money from?!

I can't understand it. If it doesn't pay to feed it definitely don't pay to starve them

 

[Old Tip]

You used to see some dreadful cases in the spring years ago when if it was a bad summer there was so little hay made they would be dragged through winter on whatever folk could afford. But now with big bales and decent transport there is no excuse, you can buy fodder and sell cattle any day of the week. Just can't understand why folk still semi starve animals there is no real excuse in most cases

 

[Post Driver]

Where was that?!

That was Thame. Steers averaged £990 that day.

They were priced about right, at Exeter on Friday you would have got £875/950 but the trade was just unreal and no sense to it, yesterday at Sedgemoor you would have got £750/775..

I was hoping for £750 - £800 based on the talk here, couldn't believe my luck. Should have given him some luck money back

 

[valtra 101]

Round here the ones that are unclipped,looking rough some with horns are the expensive ones,been looking to buy some of said type but they just too much money for what they are.

 

[danjen]

Is there a book? I'd love to get it! Iv been messing with poor quality calves and cattle since I was 12, it was all I had money to buy! They have usually came out ok though!

He wasnt referring to the husbandry of the animals,more the profit to be made from buying poorer quality or underfed ones.i.e. good ones would maybe appreciate 50% over a year,whilst poorer ones maybe 100% or sometimes more.(Obviously fed better, or grazed on better pasture) Looks like you are already doing that, so youve got nowt to learn.

 

[ridger]

He wasnt referring to the husbandry of the animals,more the profit to be made from buying poorer quality or underfed ones.i.e. good ones would maybe appreciate 50% over a year,whilst poorer ones maybe 100% or sometimes more.(Obviously fed better, or grazed on better pasture) Looks like you are already doing that, so youve got nowt to learn.

Bought 5 more today, just shy of 900 pounds for the 5. They need a bit of care but should be worth 900 each for Christmas

 

[marshfarmer]

Bought 5 more today, just shy of 900 pounds for the 5. They need a bit of care but should be worth 900 each for Christmas

Whats the quickest way to turn them round do you think feed wise. Some I had that had been only on hay took a long while to look at anything else, veg beet or cereals. Come out well though.

 

[ridger]

Whats the quickest way to turn them round do you think feed wise. Some I had that had been only on hay took a long while to look at anything else, veg beet or cereals. Come out well though.

I start them on straw and about 1kg head of unrolled oats, then after 5 days start adding 0.5 kg coarse calf to it, then 0.5 kg barley, when I have them 3 weeks they are on 1.5kg barley and 1kg coarse calf mix per day. This last batch I had won't eat silage so they can eat straw until they go outside!

 

[kps]

I think cattle have been even dearer today in bakewell. Mine look way to dear.

 

[gone up the hill]

I think cattle have been even dearer today in bakewell. Mine look way to dear.

What did you get?

Exeter on Friday all store cattle averaged just shy of £1000/ head!! complete madness with the way the deadweight price is going!!

 

[gone up the hill]

Bought 5 more today, just shy of 900 pounds for the 5. They need a bit of care but should be worth 900 each for Christmas

Have you got any pics?

 

[ridger]

Have you got any pics?

I'm away home now, il take some in morning. Good cattle were crazy, mine are all Friesan or Friesan cross, they are easier bought

 

[Henarar]

I'm away home now, il take some in morning. Good cattle were crazy, mine are all Friesan or Friesan cross, they are easier bought

If they are all Friesian you should buy a Jersey to keep them warm