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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2015, 05:23:36 pm »
That's a very shapey beast  :thumbsup:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Cowgirl

  • Joined Aug 2013
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2015, 10:47:21 pm »
Thank you! And he never saw any concentrate feeding in his whole life. Think they knew what they were doing back in 1971.... Incredible that these animals are now so rare - they were the most popular beef breed in the UK but just became unfashionable. Just checked the registrations for 2015 and so far it's only 289 calves since January. Yet the RBST say they are Category 5 ie there are 750 breeding cows? Where are the rest of the calves?

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #17 on: August 03, 2015, 06:56:10 am »
Many bull calves will not get registered so that could double the calf numbers for the year.

Cowgirl

  • Joined Aug 2013
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #18 on: August 03, 2015, 09:23:56 am »
Could be but it still doesn't add up! Just don't think we can be complacent about the numbers and think everything is OK. Many breeders are elderly and likely to be giving up soon - we're in our sixties and we're "new" breeders. The breed needs new people!

Louise P

  • Joined Jul 2015
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2015, 09:41:06 am »
Sorry, excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference between your cattle and regular hereford cattle as there's tons of them isn't there?

Cowgirl

  • Joined Aug 2013
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2015, 06:44:33 pm »
Our Herefords are the original English population, horned, with no imported bloodlines. Their pedigrees can be traced back to the 1800s. Their DNA is completely different from modern Herefords, which in this country are now mainly polled and of North American origin.

Bramham Wiltshire Horns

  • Joined Oct 2014
  • leeds
  • Bramham flock Wiltshire Horns
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #21 on: August 05, 2015, 10:32:33 pm »
Could I ask how much you would charge per kg or how much per box
Thanks
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Cowgirl

  • Joined Aug 2013
Re: Finally - what it's all about!
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2015, 06:44:22 pm »
It seems that most people charge in the region of £12 / kg for a mixture of meat from steaks to sausages and burgers - we decided that a box of 10 kg was a convenient size, and people who have had them seem happy with that. Our butcher made 16 packs and decided what to put in them, and we have what was leftover in the freezer for us.

 

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