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  • #52
    Bigbird1
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Bigbird1


    have 1 good calf out of 6 from BLQ:mad: an thats from my best U grade blue cow By VDC,pissed off with him very plain calves,will try that joker son in todays journal they say good things about him as he has calves already on the ground.

    Was thinking about NOV seen great calf off him few wks ago, the char liscally eti looks a great bull, seen him last summer at shows, should breed well


  • #53
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,078 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    rws doesnt have calves yet. the first straws of his are only coming on stream now


  • #54
    Bigbird1
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Bigbird1


    Ya straws are only available now but they bought the bull on the strength of his first crop of calves on breeders farm


  • #55
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    Karen112 wrote: »
    Lot of Blonde in this animal I'd say! Definitely an animal I would buy if I seen her. What price did she make? & off what bull? I'm a BBQ user at the moment.
    mother was a blonde heifer dad was the blue stock bull.she was with the other heifers 290 kilo 800 euros.


  • #56
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Legwax,
    Serious weanlings there. Maybe you should apply for a job at Derrypatrick?
    Any chance you could put up 1 or 2 pics of you best cows, to give us 'students' an idea of what to aim for?:D
    the funny thing about it is if i put up my best cows you would laugh and say no way your takeing the p... but must start putting up on picture thread to keep it going.


  • #57
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    reilig wrote: »
    I haven't used Sympa. I saw the ones off him in Balmoral this year too. At the Limousin Society Sales last Spring, every second Bull appeared to be off him. Last year was my first crop of pedigree calves so I decided that I'd look at something different than Sympa because not everyone that's buying a bull will want one of Sympa. So I used Sauvignon. Got 2 heifers off him this year. Cows are gone back in calf to Ampertaine Commander.

    Paul doesn't carry too many of these more expensive straws, but you can buy straws from Philip Crowe in Powerful Genetics and he will deliver them to Paul for you. His website is http://www.powerfulgenetics.com/

    He has some fine bulls of all breeds.


    Thanks for that, Paul's always useful for holding straws.:D
    Pat the lad wrote: »

    I'm reluctant to go with the whole herd pure bred, because I think it's hard to beat the hybird crossing !!!! has anyone else gone fully pure????

    Anyone with pure cows & pure calves (any bred) for export/weanling market - or do you cross bred???

    You're the same as a lot of people (myself included) roughly half the herd is pure and we calve the replacement heifers first time with LM, which is keeping them at similar numbers every year.
    Very hard to beat a good thick CH/LM cross cow, especially with a heavy CH sire for bone or the BB to catch the LM muscle in the dam. Just try to keep them small is the main thing for us, a nice handy LM with good milk is far easier fed than a hungry SIM!:p


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