This week’s Way Out West feature comes from Co Mayo, where we focus on show calf producer Chris Meehan.
The selling of specialised show calves has been growing in demand for the past number of years, but due to the cancellations of shows, it’s going to be a tough year for those who have invested in and were preparing cattle.
Chris farms with his father on a 90-acre mixed land platform and in 2019 set a new commercial calf record price in Carrick at €10,000.
The Mayo native focuses on cow type and matching the sire to the dam to produce these top-quality cattle.
Currently, all stock on the farm are AI-bred, with bulls such as TVR, Lodge Hamlet, STQ, Empire, EPI and SFL his stand-outs for the market he produces for.
Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal, Chris said: “I aim to get as much width and power throughout the body as possible. I like my cows to have good wide plates and pin bones in order for her to produce a calf with show potential.”
To learn more, view the pictures below, and see this week’s Irish Farmers Journal in print or online.
"I aim to get as much width and power throughout the body as possible."
A cow and calf outfit from Chris Meehan.
€10,000 sale-topper and Belgian Blue calf champion with purchaser and judge Blair Duffton and exhibitors Chris and Willow Meehan and Niamh Oliver. \ Tricia Kennedy
This week’s Way Out West feature comes from Co Mayo, where we focus on show calf producer Chris Meehan.
The selling of specialised show calves has been growing in demand for the past number of years, but due to the cancellations of shows, it’s going to be a tough year for those who have invested in and were preparing cattle.
Chris farms with his father on a 90-acre mixed land platform and in 2019 set a new commercial calf record price in Carrick at €10,000.
The Mayo native focuses on cow type and matching the sire to the dam to produce these top-quality cattle.
Currently, all stock on the farm are AI-bred, with bulls such as TVR, Lodge Hamlet, STQ, Empire, EPI and SFL his stand-outs for the market he produces for.
Speaking to the Irish Farmers Journal, Chris said: “I aim to get as much width and power throughout the body as possible. I like my cows to have good wide plates and pin bones in order for her to produce a calf with show potential.”
To learn more, view the pictures below, and see this week’s Irish Farmers Journal in print or online.
"I aim to get as much width and power throughout the body as possible."
A cow and calf outfit from Chris Meehan.
€10,000 sale-topper and Belgian Blue calf champion with purchaser and judge Blair Duffton and exhibitors Chris and Willow Meehan and Niamh Oliver. \ Tricia Kennedy
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