Selling herd

sid · Post by **sid** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:25 pm

Have decided to sell due being messed around one too many times. Having missed the melton sale does anybody have any ideas where i can sell all the animals, these being 8 cows with 7 12 month old calves. If push comes to shove i have considered selling at Sedgemoor during the next Devon Red sale. Just after a fair price for some nice animals, not everybody seems to agree though and some see it a an excuss too take the P$£", not that desperate!! Any ideas will be taken onboard.
Regards
Sid

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:57 pm

Sid

With the calves, you could try a finishing unit. TBMM list finishing units on their website at http://www.tbmm.co.uk/finishingunits.asp and some are listed as doing Dexters. Price should be about £1.30-1.65 a kilo liveweight I would say? Finishers I know will not take shorts, and will prefer steers but will take heifers. You can only ask.

With the older ones, you could consider fattening (if needed) and beefing them, if not in calf. You should get somewhere near £2 a kilo (deadweight) and you can do that either direct with an appropriate abattoir, or there are dealers who will buy and do the job themselves but at a slightly lower price but still not bad.

I just sent an 8 year old bull to the abattoir and got over £700 and I know where he's gone as well.

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Buryhill Dexters · Post by **Buryhill Dexters** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 10:44 pm

Well Sid surely this is not the right way to find out that the deal agreed earlier this week was now off and that you feel that the P£$ has been taken out of you with what was actually a very decent offer !!!! and only 10% less than your asking price to take all not one at a time.

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:36 am

Here's a little table I use to give me some idea of prices. Don't know whether it makes any sense. It's for non-shorts only. I did this along time ago and I think the table is low at the young end. I feel a calf is worth well over £100 the day it is born. Think of all the cost and effort that has gone into getting to that stage.

sid · Post by **sid** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:44 pm

I'm not about to get into a p*&^ing contest with Barry on a public server, you offered £3000 for 8 cows with 7 12month old calves (4 registered females), not a fair price whatever you say. I will explain for the second time the remark about the p*&^ being taken out of us was not about you but people who messed my wife with animals supposed to go to slaughter when i was in Afghanistan. I discussed the sale last night with my wife and came to the conclusion that it was not a fair price for good cows with 12 month calves hence why the post last night was made. A 10% reduction on a unfair price is more than a meager reduction, and I'm sure stock you offer for sale is not that cheap. You must have mistaken me for someone desperate to sell, I'd rather take my chance in a market. The bull can go to an abattoir if it comes to it!! I'm glad to have had my say on this public forum , two sides to any story.

Buryhill Dexters · Post by **Buryhill Dexters** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:59 pm

I too agree that there are two sides to every story and am also certain that common courtesy & good manners would have been to have contacted me directly once you decided to renege on an ageed deal, rather than for me to find out from reading a post on a public forum !!!

I also feel that you may have a shock at the price you achieve in a market, you may then realise the quality of the offer previously given & agreed !

sid · Post by **sid** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:33 pm

I had every intention of explaining to yourself why the sale was cancelled prior to your telephone call, e-mail and posting. You didn't even appear that interested in the animals so i fail to see your anger, anybody else would try to realise the best value for there animals. My animals need to achieve the best possible price, whether that is a private sale or market, the price you offered was in my opinion not good value, if i reach a lower price than you offered then so be it, i tried at least. I feel this subject is now closed and will no longer comment on it! I will not try to pick a fight with yourself and wish no further more correspondence with you on this matter. I