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I don't know. Wouldn't be for me. The most expensive time is the first few months and last few months of a beasts life. I'm not sure you would see the money out of them if you add up the straw, meal and milk in the first few months then sell them on but if it works for you go for it 👍🏻💪🏻

Cheers Gary. Glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻

Aye Paul, they are apparently the most popular telehandler in Germany! We seem to be more JCB over here. The problem is getting a tractor with a low enough cab for a few of the sheds around the yard👍🏻 Thanks for the comment as always. Hope you're keeping well 👍🏻

Cheers for your comment Thomas 👍🏻 With a lack of good grading calves you should get better prices for your beef bred calves in the future. Dairy farmers are nearly all moving towards A.I. so with sexed semen, they should get the heifers they want then the rest all beef calves. Just won't be as good quality. Glad you've found a system that works for you 👍🏻 What breed of cows have you?

@@JohnSAgri stabiliser

@@JohnSAgri trouble with the dairy bred calves we reared some few years back anything with any Jersey in them were a total waste of time was talking to a dairy farmer today was getting 410 for bbxholstein at 4 weeks old wouldn't cost much more to keep the suckler cow especially when you take it that calf will be 200 less to kill its 600 odd before you turn around

Stabiliser great suckler cattle.. If I was to start up again would be on the look out for a batch of them 👌🏻 Dairy man doing well out of those calves, he does have all the risk and the cost of raising them the first month too I suppose. What works for one man doesn't work for another. For my set up I was buying them in cheaper than that Fleckveigh xBB and they were powerful wee calves and one killed out at U grade. It seemed to work for me better than the sucks. Keep at the sucklers though if the sums are working for you 💪🏻

@@garymadden2656 Cheers Gary 👍🏻👍🏻

@@user-ct9hf4te5l Cheers 👍🏻 Takes the AI bulls I think. And a good milky cow!!

@@captainteeling7002 Absolutely, you're right! The worst thing is everyone thinks the farmers are taking home a fortune! Need to be on a big scale now to do well in farming it's starting to look like 🤔 Thanks for watching and your comment 👍🏻

@JohnSAgri Not a bother ,just for the craic, what is the price of the red diesel with ye and Fertiliser??

Compound fert £340 a ton and Diesel about 90p so we are getting away a bit cheaper up here. I'd love a telehandler just trying to keep up the payments on one!

@JohnSAgri Thanks, we got Some Fertiliser in Belleek, and it worked out cheaper than buying it from Connacht Gold, and Diesel is @ 98p just on the border at Belleek and cheaper than in Ballyshannon or Sligo

@@captainteeling7002 Every penny counts.. Worth driving a few extra mile to get some cheap fert! The grass doesn't grow without it!

@@ciaranconeely8579 cheers for watching 👍🏻

@@DM-eq1fq I have used a few but main ones is an angus-Matteo, a limousin-Knell and a Simmental-Earp... All good bulls, fairly easy calving. Really like earp 👍🏻 Didn't lose any calves in the calving with any of them bulls all natural born 👍🏻

@@DM-eq1fq Hi, thanks for watching and your comment 👍🏻 Aye the diary stock won't be as good as the beef bred calves but when you do the sums you mightn't need need as much for them at the other side to make money 🤔 Definitely quality stores will be harder to buy going forward with the suckler herd numbers dropping each year... Hard to know what the future is for the suck cow?

@@DM-eq1fq Had no bother with flies this year thankfully. Sometimes would do them with 'spot on' but as it's been so cold and breezy this year haven't seen them bothered with flies 👍🏻

@@paulthompson8467 Aye Paul, what works for one man doesn't work for another and you're in the same boat as myself! Weanlings would be nice to buy in, less straw and risks etc but think I'll try the calves on milk again and see how that goes. Smaller cattle are handier worked with and easier on the ground which is nice too especially after the past few weeks we've had. Thanks for the comment, glad you've found a system that suits you. Don't know what the future is for sucklers? Time will tell

​@@JohnSAgrigood video about hay

​@@farmboi390thank you for watching 💪🏻

What age roughly do you buy them in? And how long do you keep them? I have sucklers cows and it’s tough work the last few years. Thinking of changing.

​@@digitalguyzzzI normally bought them in maybe 2/3 weeks old and would have put them on to eringold once a day powder worked for me then weaned them off. Also had the lend of an automatic calve feeder for a couple of months was a savage job. Calves got milk when they needed it just had to check if they drank yeno. Sucklers not an easy life! Thanks for the comment 👍🏻

@@aidanmurphy6845 Hi Aidan. Aye, you're right. Still a lot of risks with calves on milk but at least you can leave them in the evening and shouldn't have any emergencies to look at over night! Thanks for the comment. Still have a soft spot for the sucklers but giving it a break for a year or two and you never know, might buy a few of these stabiliser cattle in the future to restart the suckler herd 👍🏻 Cheers

@@paulthompson8467 Thanks Paul. Always good to have you in watching 👍🏻

@@richardmcclean9485 Thanks Richard! Glad you liked it 👍🏻👍🏻

@@davidmather6900 thanks David. Video quality not as good as I forgot the memory card but worked out alright! Thanks for the support 👍🏻👍🏻

@@paulthompson8467 Hi Paul. Yes, a well matched outfit! 👌🏻 All is well here thanks. A bit warmer weather would be nice but we take what we get. 👍🏻 Thanks for watching

Hi John, aye she is fit for it now 💪🏻 6140 is some tractor, a pocket rocket! Yes, not as many of them floating about now! Thanks for watching 👍🏻

No, not George Cole... 👍🏻

You not a fan of the sound track Graeme? 🤣🤣 Thanks for watching. Would you like a full video of just the JF working away?? 👍🏻

Yes, some note off her there with a full load on👌🏻 Aye, like to see her on a 20ft row sometime!

Cheers Alan! You're right, be interesting to see her on a 20ft row!

Thanks Paul! Yes they are some machine and easy to work at to! There would be a deadly sound of a 7610 driving a JF 900 👌🏻👌🏻

@@JohnSAgri funny this 7610 was fairly fit for the job compared to ours

Hi Chris. Yeh I agree. The problem is drones don't record sound cause they make a whizzing sound so a sound track has to be put over it. Some of my other videos recorded on camera don't have as much sound. Thanks for commenting though 👍🏻👍🏻

Everyone likes a Massey.

Thank you!

Aul galick

@@philipglasgow7373 That's him alright

Cheers Donal. Cleaned up well being out a week too 👍🏻

Thanks Paul 👍🏻 Aye hopefully they will push on now they are out at grass too. Been a long winter but what a difference a week of good weather makes ☀️ Things are looking up 👍🏻

😂 Been there before.. I now let them out to run up and down the concrete yard for 10 mins before putting them out into the field I find helps. By the time they get to the field I'm hoping they are right and tired. Thanks for the comment 👍🏻

I've had fans asking all weekend about new content so have to give the people what they want 🤣🤣

Thanks Paul! Aye very happy with those prices 👍🏻 Although when you add up all the costs of keeping a cow, meal, vet etc. It's not as good as it sounds 🤔 Decision not fully made yet. She wasn't served, tempted to serve them a month or 2 later this year so they will calve in the warmer weather 🤔

@@JohnSAgri when I had a few cows the ones that gave me the least trouble were the ones that calved in may and June

Thanks Ben 👌🏻

Definitely a handy job to have around the yard 👌🏻👍🏻

Cheers Gary 👍🏻

Thanks Donal 👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks Paul! Interesting to hear that, I thought sheep would be a lot harder work than cows but I suppose you've got it worked out with your work time off and it works well for you. I dont like sounding negative on the suck cow topic but say you lose a calve or 2 or lose a cow with grass tetany. The time you pay the vet bill and all too there's not much left. Seeing the calves grow up is the good part aye 👍🏻 I'm thinking of going back to buying in drop calves as I found that less time consuming and don't have to get up in the middle of night to run about with a calving jack. Hope lambing season goes well for you 👍🏻👍🏻

@@JohnSAgri one of the deciding factors for keeping the few sheep instead of the cows was benchmarking because I am renting land the cows before SFP were losing money while even with renting land the sheep were still making a few pounds I sometimes rear a few calves too they are handier than the sheep or cows

@@paulthompson8467 You're wise to have it all worked out. If you're going to be busy you might aswell make a pound or 2 at it. It's like everything, good days and bad days 👍🏻 I'll see what happens over the next few months. Watch this space haha 👍🏻

Hi Gerry. Thanks for watching ✅️ Glad you enjoyed 👍🏻

Cheers Gerry. Some work in them 🤣

Thanks Paul... £18 per straw is a lot cheaper than keeping a bull only thing is keeping an eye for the heats is a bit difficult when not about home all the time... Thanks for watching 👍🏻

Knell - Limousin Matteo - Angus Earp - Simmental All fairly easy calving there and produce smashing replacements ✅️✅️

Da uncle used knell and 50 cent on the more maternal cows all bulls 😂

@@aidanmurphy6845 I got £1470 for a 480kg heifer from Knell... Best price I've had but she was a smasher! AI pays off I think

He used lapon ch on da rest

@@aidanmurphy6845 Aye, wish I could go for Charolais just think you'd need to be there with the calving ropes just incase!

Cheers Sean 👍🏻

Aye that's it, I'd far rather a wee calve born with no hassle than a big lump of a calve wrecking a cow... They can do all their growing outside. Thanks for the comment 👍🏻

Can’t beat da Ai no matter what kinda cow theirs a bull to match

@@aidanmurphy6845 Aye, like the ai there you can pick and choose depending on the cow as you say 👍🏻👍🏻

Hi. Probably not a while pile of difference between them. I've never really compared them to be honest. Just fill them up and tear away. Maybe something I could do in a video some day. Thanks 👍🏻