Are they fit??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- In this stock video, I go through the fattening cattle, weigh them, assess their flesh, and pick out any that might be fit to go to the factory.
Also, hear my thoughts on a few issues I have with the cattle!
This is the first video of the new year 2025
I forgot to wish everyone a Happy New Year and Happy Farming 👍🏻
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Your video is spot on Dara, I weighted on the 21st Dec the same type of cattle as in the video mainly AAX ,ADG .7 to. 9 was as good as it was, then you hear of all these beef 500 monitored farms running almost 100% fr on there farms saying that this system was the most profitable, keeping the cost of the animal coming in down as much as possible. My father used say ounce of breeding is better than a ton of feeding.
Thanks Denis! 👍🏻
Paper never refused ink yet!!
Your father was a wise man 👍🏻
Great video Dara , very informative.
Thank you 👍🏻
Great video. For explaining about weight.. it annoying when they don't perform well enough with all feed put in
Thanks for the comment, that's the joys of farming!!
Great info Dara and good to hear honest views
Thank you 👍🏻
Good honest and very informative video. You are saying what anyone else at this craic is experiencing.
Thank you! 👍🏻
Even with the best of management, you can't outfeed genetic limitations.
Thanks for sharing
V true statement 👍🏻
Great honesty video, with some great information,run a great system.
The animals knocking the thing off the wall and you chatting away 😅
Your dad's a warrior,and still fit to give orders 🫣👌
Thanks Shane, I had to stay going or I'd loose my thoughts, 1 take only!! 😆
Dad lives for the farm, keeps him going 💪🏻
Spot on...the way teagasc and the farmers journal is trying to now tell us how much we can make from dairy beef..bullshit
Laurence shaloo,a teagasc researcher, had an article a year ago saying that the best dairy calf to beef systems could make as much money as a dairy farmer per/ha profit.
If this was the real case then the dairy farmer would keep the calf and milk less rather than giving away the bull calf
New subscriber just found your channel to we do much the same as you as well as sheep
@johncarroll8891 welcome to the channel, and thanks for the comment 👍🏻
Thanks for the comment, I can sense your frustration
Paper never refused ink yet 😬
First video of yours to watch and found it very interesting, liked and subscribed
Thank you and welcome to the channel 👍🏻
You are doing great ,, it’s hard working and doing a video ,,
Fair play and keep it going
Thanks Seanie 👍🏻
Evening Dara very informative video.Doing a great job with the dairy cattle.
Thanks Ruairi, doing our best 👍🏻
Good video Dara, great to see your da out and about , the problem with the dairy x is the cows are getting smaller with Ebi ,
Thanks Sean, the farming keeps him going!
You can't make a silk purse out of pigs ear 🤔
You'd nearly need the wooly hat, Dara on a frosty morning like that 🤠
That would be product placement Noel 😉😆
@Waltonsbeeffarm 🤠
Hi I’m Paddy. A new subscriber from Ireland from a farming background
Hi Paddy, welcome to the channel 👍🏻
We are only a little farm but we do the black and white Hereford great video I learnt a bit we buy calves December and sell at 14 months the following year just enjoying it thanks griz
Glad you took something from the video and thanks for the comment! 👍🏻
Great honest video, tough year grass wise! Growth rates definitely suffered. Very fleshy animals over all. Friesians take that much longer. Best of luck going forward.
Thank you for the comment. 👍🏻 Hopefully, 2025 will be a better year
Great video Dara all stock are back in weight this year wet year and also most men I ask say that silage quality in general is nowhere near ad good as other years I agree with you on the fr cattle the same can be said for alot of aa. weighed my cattle 20 December average aa 527 average he 573 all back approx 20 kg live weight on same time last year
Thanks for the comment Michael, I would say mine were back 30-50kg this year.
Hopefully 2025 will be a better grazing year 🤞🏻🤞🏻
@Waltonsbeeffarm
In farming being pressurised to sell (financial or otherwise)
is a recipe for disaster.
'Less is more' 🐄 💰
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Very interesting video 👏
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Great video Dara, great to hear your experience & what works well for you!! Best of luck with the calving!!
Thanks Patrick 👍🏻
Dara I’m like your self used do all fr.bullocks and a few fr bulls and the only way I could see them pay was bull beef under 24 months ,cause they thrive faster and I would get a flat price for them at the end but I now have all aax because the bonus ‘s are the profit in most animals .interesting video 👍👍
@John-s2z6k thanks for the comment, interesting to see that I'm not the only one who has moved away from the fr 👍🏻
Happy new year best wishes for the new year
Many Happy returns 👍🏻
Great video! Would you come back with the kill out results for some of the cattle you showed,it would be interesting to see how they got on.
Thanks for the comment, I'll see what I can do 👍🏻
Excellent video Dara, great to see your father out farming, they don’t make men like that anymore.
What dairy bred stock do you find leave the most money? Also did you ever try fatten friesians using beet or anything?
Keep up the great work
Thanks for the comment, the farming keeps Dad going, hope we'll all be as enthusiastic at his age!
I used beet before but I gave it up, felt there was too much work with it, great feed tho but just not for me!
Have you looked into bulk beef stock jex friesianXangus/charlaoi limousine great video and great info about your stock happy new year
I haven't looked into the stock you mentioned!
Many Happy returns to you and yours 👍🏻
Good video very interesting
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That was an awesome video Dara very interesting on the weights and cost of feeding. The wet year we had put everyone back on weights the feeding wasn't in the grass. Just wondering the heffers that don't meet you're target weight for the factory but their finished do you ever sell them directly to a butcher I have neighbour that sells to the factory but sell ones that don't meet his factory weight but their finished to butcher it works out fairly well for him specially with Angus/Harford
You're Dad's some man at 93 helping and probably given orders
Looking forward to the next video
Thanks John for the comment, I haven't really any butcher contact to go that route!
Dad is well able to give orders alright, keeps him going 💪🏻
@Waltonsbeeffarm 👍
Great video Dara. Lovely to hear the truth about the cost of feeding cattle. Do you try any in the marts.
Thank you! route 1 with the dairy stock, would put the cont cattle thru the mart alright 👍🏻
Very good video Dara.
At the same crack as yourself buy 55 calves 3/4 weeks and carry them 21/22 months, sell at the mart and 80% of them are finished. I havent housing to keep them any longer and im working off farm.
I was the same as yourself started out with more fresians, ive phased them out too, great efficient animal to 18months or 19months and then when you put them in for the finsihing phase they can let you down, eat away more and put on away less. I only have 7 this year and they were hand picked because they were big calves were i buy the aax and hex.
With your weights the spring and early summer were a disaster, we weigh ever 6 weeks to the day. May on june thrive at grass was worst in years. We lost april too as they didnt get out till late. The weather and grass is most important for calf to beef. End of the year picked up but its the 2nd grazing spring early summer where you get the weight. If they AVG in september is low when you put them in October you get a great thrive inside. This year they went in thriving and got a lul in avg inside for longer than id like.
Best luck with the factory and good videos 👍👍
Thanks Seamus, that is an excellent summary you have given there, you sumed up what I think I was trying to say!
I'm glad to see someone else saying it too, at least if wasn't dreaming up these observations!
Hopefully 2025 will be a better grass year 🤞🏻
No you weren't dreaming at all.
As you said hopefully spring 25 will be mild and we will get the ball rolling early. Make life easy for man and beast. 🙏
Mighty video. Agree with u on FR. think the cbv v good for Angus and Hereford. Will u be using that when selecting calves next spring. Separates the ai from the stock bull bred ones
Thank you Pat!
I buy all the calves from my brother's dairy farm, I might look into the cbv on the calves this year and see does it correlate with my eye🤔
Very interesting video just natural dad telling you hurry up what are you at 😂😂ah they all do that ! Keep doing what you are at ! Do a video clip on how your cattle did in the factory the grade and fat scores compared to what you thought! In my experience anything meaning axx or hex that doesn’t come from a British friesian cow should be left with the dairy farmer sorry to say that !
Thanks Danny for the comment!
I'll try and cover the grades again in another video👍🏻
Very good video Dara. Who squeezes the bulls for you?
Thank you, I do them myself
Great video interesting do you buy on sires
I buy from my brother's dairy herd, so basically, whatever he has available 👍🏻
Agree about the friesisns 100%
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Great video dara
Quick question
With mart prices so good would you consider mart than factory?
Sold nearly all the suckler bred stock thru the mart, I'll see out these lads thru the factory this year anyway
Hi, you should try Foyle meats in Donegal, 20 cent for P grade steers and 10 cent kg bonus if Friesen kills over 300ks
Thanks for that suggestion, I'll def keep it in mind 👍🏻
Finishing as bulls seems like it might be the only way to get a half decent performance from frisian bull calves, but that has other challenges
For sure, it has its own challenge
Happy New year Dara, i seen 500kg FR bullocks making 2.70/kg in Thurles mart before xmas, how would that compare to feed costs and extra time needed to finish? Looks a great price to me
Many Happy returns Steven!
Looks a good price alright, right or wrong, I'll finish these lads out, I've the hard work done at this stage 😬
Working a similar under 24 month system to yours here..all aa and he bullocks and heifers...where do you source your calves?..mart or farmer?..its worth approaching a dairy farmer and seeing what beef bulls he is using and try and source all your calves from the ones using good beef bulls...we do ther here now and it has made massive difference to carcass weight..this year we had heifers killing into 275kg avrage at 20 months and bullocks at 318kg at 21-22 months
My calves are all sourced from my brother's dairy herd.
Tbf to him, his calves are given a great start, I never have a problem with them or have to inject them
I have better weanlings this year so we'll see how they turn out over the summer
Thanks for the advice, you have great weights in your own cattle 💪🏻
Great video Dara! In time would you be more likely to expand your herd of continental cow/calf system and reduce the number of calves you buy or keep it close to what you have? Do you make more from your home born continental cattle than the stock you buy when all factors are considered? I buy all bullocks but like the idea of having more control of the stock genetics
Thanks for the comment! 👍🏻
I'll be staying pretty much as I am as regards to stock nos, if I was to go to more cows I'd have less cattle to sell and more cows to feed!
I haven't done an individual analysis, something I probably should do going forward 👍🏻
@Waltonsbeeffarm keep up the good work and the good videos, everyday is a school day while farming, fingers crossed for a good year ahead
The friesian is a strong feeder, driving frame more than meat, its a bad year to gain progress it rained mad everywhere, it looks like 2 year old finishing is your game
Aye the more you feed them, the taller they get 🦒
All in all do you think the dairy cross are profitable? do you rear them ?
I rear them from 3 weeks of age. There is money in them alright but there could be more!
Push them to 8kg and u will see a change on them i know what its like i fed fr bulls and allways got on well till this year couldn't get them finished no matter what i done with them
Thanks Martin, my eyes are watering at the thoughts of going to 8kg with them, tis some feed. Interesting that you found them hard thrivers this year too
@Waltonsbeeffarm best thing I done was sold them in the mart got on really well if u want to finish them in a month u will have to up the meal in take
Do u ever try finish the friesans as bulls ???
No, always ran as bullocks
An ounce of breedin worth a ton of feedin....?
Wise words 👍🏻
Did ye use to milk cows cause of the cubicles
I put the cubicles in myself 👍🏻
Any fool can feed them it takes a smart man to sell them,
Price trice (3 times)
Sell once 👍
I hope I'm the smart man and not the fool 😪🤞🏻🤞🏻
@Waltonsbeeffarm
Here's hoping 🙏