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  • 04-05-2011 8:22pm
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    kealar
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭


    Evening all,Was talkin to a suckler farmer who claims that if you want to breed for the export market you need to use the very heavy musceled ai bulls,that the easy calving blue bulls wont have it in them,but does that not mean sections?? is anyone here selling into this market and if so what bulls are being used and to what sucess,:confused: cheers


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  • #2
    ihatetractors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭ihatetractors


    Shippers want continentals, best continentals are hard calvers, our neighbour is a jobber/shipper. All he buys is charlois/bb/limousin crosses as that's were demand is for leaner meat


  • #3
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    kealar wrote: »
    Evening all,Was talkin to a suckler farmer who claims that if you want to breed for the export market you need to use the very heavy musceled ai bulls,that the easy calving blue bulls wont have it in them,but does that not mean sections??

    Nope.

    If you have good cows and your sire selection is good there is no reason why you can't produce export quality weanlings without resorting to sectioning your cows.
    I will qualify this statement though by adding that the occassional section can always occur. Even using easy calving bulls!


  • #4
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    kealar wrote: »
    Evening all,Was talkin to a suckler farmer who claims that if you want to breed for the export market you need to use the very heavy musceled ai bulls,that the easy calving blue bulls wont have it in them,but does that not mean sections?? is anyone here selling into this market and if so what bulls are being used and to what sucess,:confused: cheers
    i was told the same. i put ovo bb ai bull to a red lim cow and had no calving problems. ovo had 28% calving difficulty. the cow is scanned in calf again. careful feeding the cow 6 weeks before calving.


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