Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:50 pm
Top price was £530 for the Breed Champion - a smart heifer and the cow plus calf went for £500.
The other prices were pretty depressing - one in calf cow made only £196 but most werer about £200-£300 If my memory serves me.
Prices for bulls were low
Quality - if I could have bid, (living in Scotland meant I couldn't!) I would have been tempted by the two top prices animals and if I had wanted good, solid cattle to breed meat from, there were quite a few possibles which needed just a bit of good grass to put some condition on them.
Bulls - the Reserve Champion was a straight animal but his hindquarters were a bit light for me - I look for as much meat on the beam end as possible as soon as possible!
Sorry not more detail
Jo
The other prices were pretty depressing - one in calf cow made only £196 but most werer about £200-£300 If my memory serves me.
Prices for bulls were low
Quality - if I could have bid, (living in Scotland meant I couldn't!) I would have been tempted by the two top prices animals and if I had wanted good, solid cattle to breed meat from, there were quite a few possibles which needed just a bit of good grass to put some condition on them.
Bulls - the Reserve Champion was a straight animal but his hindquarters were a bit light for me - I look for as much meat on the beam end as possible as soon as possible!
Sorry not more detail
Jo