I’m a city boy but love all the different farming shows esp on BBC ,rare breed etc etc,some characters,hives the rest of us some inkling into rural matters,my mama gang in Kerry were farmer’s but had to deviate into construction and a pub to turn a bob
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Yeah Rare Breed is excellent also.
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Love it,harsh oul life at times,v unpredictable and the bank manager always seems to be lurking but some freedom,know it might sound twee but "all creatures great and small’ is one of my all time favourites
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Very strange reporting of it.
I can see why Friesian bull calves mightn’t get best of care but it’s reported that this chap bought them in.
They have to have been bought in because there is no way there is a farm with that many dairy cows in the bogs of north east Galway. 270 bull calves would be worth over €30k.
Dunno what bull calves are making at the minute but some years lads were literally giving them away as opposed to rearing them.
Could be a case a serious neglect or a bad infection in the calf house. Either way very poor animal care.
Hypothermia
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Ya, they were friesian
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Should have thrown on a jersey
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Lads in that part of the country are buying calves to bucket feed, the price of all that type stock has gone up there in the past few years. Reading between the lines here it sounds like a farmer who might have taken a bad turn and the calves weren’t fed. Must be a horrible site to show up to anyway.
80 to 100 atm for fresian calves,300 for a Charlaois x Fresian.
No idea but seeing the way crypto scour has ripped through our young calves this month I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar happened here… Though they’d have been older calves. Could be a mental breakdown too. Ugly stuff.
That was my first guess.
Viral pneumonia
Is that the story?
If so very plausible but still there must have been neglect for that amount of calves to succumb to it.
Can you not ate a male calf or what?
The comment at the end of the article has me leaning towards something like that.
