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Parthenaise Cattle

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  • #52
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    No, dont have any experience of Parthenaise to be honest. Was even thinking of trying the bull Universal. He looks like a good bull.

    It was more a case of, "Asking the barber, if you need a haircut ?" :D


  • #53
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    UPCS wrote: »
    our cows are calving down with no bother every 10 to 11 months! :D

    They sound like super cows! ;)


  • #54
    UPCS
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭UPCS


    If you are happy with what you have got why change it! we have never used universal, so we cannot recommend but one bull we have used that has good results is sirex.


  • #55
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    Only got to visit one farm last week ( for Pathenaise cattle)- with the weather turning :mad:I was held up hosing the cows etc. But what I did see on the farm I visited - was very nice cattle and they were very quiet too. The cows seem to have very lean muscle and have great length with health bags of milk ;)- I was looking at april calfed cows with calves at foot. The Pure bred Calves were very stylish & well muscled etc, but not excessively heavy live weights - approx 350-400kgs (bulls & heifiers) - then again the weren't geting any meal at all yet. A few pure cows were crossed to Limo bull - color may not be to everyone's taste - but they were crackers!!!! Will go look at a few more farms before committing at this this - but yes very incouraged?????


  • #56
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Pat the lad wrote: »
    Only got to visit one farm last week ( for Pathenaise cattle)- with the weather turning :mad:I was held up hosing the cows etc. But what I did see on the farm I visited - was very nice cattle and they were very quiet too. The cows seem to have very lean muscle and have great length with health bags of milk ;)- I was looking at april calfed cows with calves at foot. The Pure bred Calves were very stylish & well muscled etc, but not excessively heavy live weights - approx 350-400kgs (bulls & heifiers) - then again the weren't geting any meal at all yet. A few pure cows were crossed to Limo bull - color may not be to everyone's taste - but they were crackers!!!! Will go look at a few more farms before committing at this this - but yes very incouraged?????

    ya the docility of them is very impressive or so i thought when i visited a farm like yourself


  • #57
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Some pics of cross-breds;

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=840&id=100000927489518&l=eff14a70d4


  • #58
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    Yeah - some super looking cattle alright -


  • #59
    bogman_bass
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    Just bought my first heifer by turbo.

    Have you bought yet Pat the lad?


  • #60
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    Best of luck with her Bogman bass. Is she a pure bred or cross bred?.Is she in calve? I have been busy these last few weeks, I haven't got to as many farms as I had hoped. Have one or two ear marked though. Again all the best.


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  • #61
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,078 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Pure bred. She was with the bull so hopefully she's in calf but if she is its a bonus


  • #62
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Pure bred. She was with the bull so hopefully she's in calf but if she is its a bonus
    Best of luck with her bogman:)


  • #63
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    hi vanderbager
    just wondering how the part bull went for you. what are the calves like? are you happy with them. what was he like for calving?


  • #64
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    [Quote=leg wax;i kept the part heifers and served the first one this morning with sfl,


    hi legwax.
    just wondering how your part x heifiers went. what are the calves like after the bb sfl? what colour did the calves come after bb. how are the heifers for milk? I take it the part heifers are lim/blonde crosses?.


  • #65
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Just from looking at the figures on
    http://www.icbf.ie/taurus/bull_search/index.php?ani_id=542026998

    Sirex (IRX) does seem to be a lot better bull than SANSONNET (SNX).


  • #66
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Pat the lad wrote: »
    hi vanderbager
    just wondering how the part bull went for you. what are the calves like? are you happy with them. what was he like for calving?

    ya good enough, should be selling a few weanlings off him next week so will see how i go, he has bred nice cattle, easy calver, 3 first timers have calved to him in last few weeks, all calved no problems


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  • #67
    johnpawl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭johnpawl


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    ya good enough, should be selling a few weanlings off him next week so will see how i go, he has bred nice cattle, easy calver, 3 first timers have calved to him in last few weeks, all calved no problems

    How are they for puttin on weight? I've been told they hard to fatten...


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