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Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

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    #2762
    rushvalley
    Registered Users Posts: 426 ✭✭rushvalley


    Anyone have any CH4159 calves yet?


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    #2763
    simx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Who2 wrote: »
    has anyone used tombapik? and whats your thoughts on him?

    SEen a couple pb bull calves 2 months old or so and look good anyway


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    #2764
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,060 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Where would you even get a straw?
    Of?


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    #2765
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Of?

    Maine anjou bull who2 was on about


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    #2766
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    simx wrote: »
    SEen a couple pb bull calves 2 months old or so and look good anyway

    Typical that theyd be bulls:rolleyes:


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    #2767
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,022 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Typical that theyd be bulls:rolleyes:
    With his ratings would you want a heifer?


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    #2768
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    With his ratings would you want a heifer?

    Ya. Best maternal ch bull.


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    #2769
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,022 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Ya. Best maternal ch bull.

    He’s got a great pedigree (my opinion),
    but -8.4 for milk & +2.43 for daughter calving interval, would liked of Tombapiknot be better maternal?


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    #2770
    Who2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭Who2


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Maine anjou bull who2 was on about

    Seen a clearance sale in Armagh on donedeal and I just liked what I saw, regret not going to it. On paper to me they seem like an ideal cow, but the reality may be different


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    #2771
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,022 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Who2 wrote: »
    Seen a clearance sale in Armagh on donedeal and I just liked what I saw, regret not going to it. On paper to me they seem like an ideal cow, but the reality may be different
    I though I came across 1 in an AI book, but can’t seam to find. Closest is PG book mentions Breed in other bulls available, could be worth giving them a call


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    #2772
    Who2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭Who2


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    I though I came across 1 in an AI book, but can’t seam to find. Closest is PG book mentions Breed in other bulls available, could be worth giving them a call

    There was a bull Hugo in progressive I think a few years back that I couldn’t make out, but he was the closest to Maine Anjou I could find. Kales herdhad a few for sale as well if I remember right.


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    #2773
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    He’s got a great pedigree (my opinion),
    but -8.4 for milk & +2.43 for daughter calving interval, would liked of Tombapiknot be better maternal?

    +12 for milk,4% for daughter calving difficulty,.75 for daughte calving interval €163 replacwment value......only downside is hes like €60 a straw
    Maybr yourlooking at different evaluation...


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    #2774
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,259 ✭✭✭tanko


    Hes talking about Knockmoyle Loki.
    Ye are talking about two different bulls.


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    #2775
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    tanko wrote: »
    Hes talking about Knockmoyle Loki.
    Ye are talking about two different bulls.

    Ohhh..explains that so ðŸ‘


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    #2776
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,060 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Who2 wrote: »
    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    I though I came across 1 in an AI book, but can’t seam to find. Closest is PG book mentions Breed in other bulls available, could be worth giving them a call

    There was a bull Hugo in progressive I think a few years back that I couldn’t make out, but he was the closest to Maine Anjou I could find. Kales herdhad a few for sale as well if I remember right.

    Hugo was dovea. They had ardbrite a few years ago.

    PG used to have a few straws of Tango knocking about


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    #2777
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,841 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Seem very similar to the beef shorthorn. Anybody ever try one?


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    #2778
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Who2 wrote: »
    has anyone any maine anjou cattle? i know robin banks had a couple a few years back and i seen a lad selling a bull back a while on donedeal but they are a breed i have yet to see more than a handful of. i was talking to someone one day that said theres a lad in cavan breeding them, would anyone have any idea who he is? they are an interesting looking breed and i wouldnt mind trying a few.

    Just seen this if anyone is interested. They look like an interesting breed. Are they good with milk?

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/maj-cows/18174652


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    #2779
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,841 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    My God if they’re as good as the ad claims they’re some cattle. I’m dubious about why yer man is going out of them


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    #2780
    annubis
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭annubis


    squinn2912 wrote: »
    My God if they’re as good as the ad claims they’re some cattle. I’m dubious about why yer man is going out of them
    same chap on rare breed, he has more cattle than the rest of us put together :)


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    #2781
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Oh Ya, the Jalex herd.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #2782
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Jaysus I was even up at his place last year and totally forgot about seeing them. Looked nice strong cattle. I often used to see a few of them around Mayo in the mart too.


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    #2783
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users Posts: 942 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Jaysus I was even up at his place last year and totally forgot about seeing them. Looked nice strong cattle. I often used to see a few of them around Mayo in the mart too.


    In ballina? That's where I bought mine


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    #2784
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    In ballina? That's where I bought mine

    Yes indeedy!


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    #2785
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Jalex open day on Saturday i think


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    #2786
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    In ballina? That's where I bought mine

    Ballina? Is the Jalex herd not up in Antrim?

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #2787
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Ballina? Is the Jalex herd not up in Antrim?

    It is, I seen the Jalex ones last year but was just saying I often used to see a few with MA breeding going through the mart in ballina. Would be cheap too as no-one really knew what breed they were.


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    #2788
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    It is, I seen the Jalex ones last year but was just saying I often used to see a few with MA breeding going through the mart in ballina. Would be cheap too as no-one really knew what breed they were.

    Have they Huge hips like a saler?


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    #2789
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Just seen this if anyone is interested. They look like an interesting breed. Are they good with milk?

    https://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/maj-cows/18174652

    Grand cows with lots of bone,don't seem to be milky but its hard to see from the angle and they have only had one calf i suppose


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    #2790
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Have they Huge hips like a saler?

    I can't really remember tbh, I remember thinking they looked a lot like a beef montie if you get me. There was one fella in Ballina that always bought a heifer if she was a Maine Anjou, he'd bull them & sell them on, claimed they made great cows.


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    #2791
    Who2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭Who2


    I’m going up to see them if I can rearrange things a bit.Prices are reasonable with him on these. He’s getting out of cows altogether and concentrating on heifers.


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