What to do with empty heifers

[frederick]

What do fellow block calvers do with there empty heifers.

I have 7 out of 94. In the past we have run two groups and just carried them over. I would expect most of them to still get in calf. I expect half of them did and then lost the embryo too late to try again.

So I would normally have sold the few empty at 24 months nearly fat. My current ones are now 15 months and I want gone.
Store ring or straight to slaughter?

 

[som farmer]

we have tended to sell them as bullers, if not I/c by end of service, but they are pee'd away, having seen some come back, through the dairy ring, freshly calved ! The strict blockcalvers, would say get shot, but as with the cows, we will leave the bull in, and sell I/c when you have reached 'end block day'. Not ideal, but cost effective, anything I/c has got to be worth more than empty.

 

[Werzle]

What do fellow block calvers do with there empty heifers.

I have 7 out of 94. In the past we have run two groups and just carried them over. I would expect most of them to still get in calf. I expect half of them did and then lost the embryo too late to try again.

So I would normally have sold the few empty at 24 months nearly fat. My current ones are now 15 months and I want gone.
Store ring or straight to slaughter?

The way things are you will probably mug them away doing either atm

 

[Beef farmer]

300 quid stores

 

[I thats it]

300 quid stores

I'll bid him 320

 

[vantage]

300 quid stores

More than barrens only a short time ago!

 

[Beef farmer]

I'll bid him 320

Then he would be mad not to take your offer, I dont know why, but I just imagined an element of jersey in them

 

[frederick]

No jersey. Some Normandy.

Probably 425 kg

 

[Beef farmer]

Il stick with my 300 quid

 

[I thats it]

Il stick with my 300 quid

and I'll stick with 320 always liked a bit of normandy

 

[frederick]

I'll take my £630 each in the store ring at frome today as a reasonably successful outcome.

 

[Beef farmer]

I'll take my £630 each in the store ring at frome today as a reasonably successful outcome.

Buy bullets for less money. Well done

 

[som farmer]

got a normande hfr, fresh, to sell, only problem is, she must be related back to a bucking bronco, looks lovely, but she can kick for England.

 

[farmboy]

got a normande hfr, fresh, to sell, only problem is, she must be related back to a bucking bronco, looks lovely, but she can kick for England.

Think you need to work on your sales patter

 

[lazy farmer]

got a normande hfr, fresh, to sell, only problem is, she must be related back to a bucking bronco, looks lovely, but she can kick for England.

Why are you selling her she’s a spring calver ?

 

[som farmer]

Why are you selling her she’s a spring calver ?

long time since we had 1 as bad as this, iv'e had some evil bitches over the years, another week of it, she will be rising up the scale. Rope tight round her gut, and back legs tied to kick rail, and neither easy to do, it's simply not worth the risk of injury, she's calved 8 days, a few more, she will be in a shed, with bb bull calf. We have a couple of others, by same bull, quiet as lambs.
What irks, she is very nicely marked, and looks a picture, as long as you don't look at her back legs, they are a bit bloody, from kicking, before we can get the rope on ! she might have a bit of jackhammer, in her breeding.

 

[Agrispeed]

Yeah that's a Normade thing. I have 4 or 5 crosses and they are incredibly headstrong, they make jerseys look civil. They are by far the most friendly cows I have, but if they don't want to do something, you might as well give up. I've seen them climb walls, or just refuse to move for hours if they don't want to go somewhere. An absolute pain, but quite endearing!

I always found that they are always very difficult when stressed, fine normally but a slight thing and they will quickly get a bit loopy. French influence I suppose.