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Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

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    #2822
    The man in red and black
    Registered Users Posts: 666 ✭✭✭The man in red and black


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    33 bred today following coils 5 hummer 10 fiston (Thought there were more in the tank) and 18 to bivouac (I had bought Jasper but when we went to the tank they were bivouac.) Ah madness loves company:D

    Jesus that will be a busy fortnight calving all them! Will you be AIing the repeats? Would be alot for a bull to handle if 20-40% repeat in 2-3 day window.


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    #2823
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    The man in red and black wrote: »
    Jesus that will be a busy fortnight calving all them! Will you be AIing the repeats? Would be alot for a bull to handle if 20-40% repeat in 2-3 day window.

    Yes I will AI for 2 rounds teaser out tomorrow, if I can hire a bull or buy a mature bull I will only AI for 1 more round.If I have 40% repeats or less I will be very happy
    Protocol was Prid for 8 days Estrumate on day 7 Prid out am day 8 Receptal on AI day in the am.If there are Cows bulling tomorrow am I will serve those again just in case. I dont have a cost yet. Housing for soft calves will be the hardest part should have enough calving boxes


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    #2824
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    Yes I will AI for 2 rounds teaser out tomorrow, if I can hire a bull or buy a mature bull I will only AI for 1 more round.If I have 40% repeats or less I will be very happy
    Protocol was Prid for 8 days Estrumate on day 7 Prid out am day 8 Receptal on AI day in the am.If there are Cows bulling tomorrow am I will serve those again just in case. I dont have a cost yet. Housing for soft calves will be the hardest part should have enough calving boxes

    Who s hummer


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    #2825
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Mod edit. Spam removed. GC
    Amen


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    #2826
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    You'll have some crop of calves between fiston and bivouac. Both really good terminal bulls with easy calving. Is fiston the next big bull when he goes we'll all be talking about?


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    #2827
    tanko
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    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    Amen

    Eamonn.


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    #2828
    tanko
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    Never wrestle with pigs wrote: »
    You'll have some crop of calves between fiston and bivouac. Both really good terminal bulls with easy calving. Is fiston the next big bull when he goes we'll all be talking about?

    Yeah, I think Fiston is a super bull given how easy calved he is. He’ll be missed when he’s gone. I wonder what his son Firoda Jason is like?


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    #2829
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    tanko wrote: »
    Yeah, I think Fiston is a super bull given how easy calved he is. He’ll be missed when he’s gone. I wonder what his son Firoda Jason is like?

    Friend of mine breed Jason. I've seen a few of his calves and they are impressive. He was bought as a sort of insurance if anything was to happen to fiston.


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    #2830
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    2691 progeny registered to Fiston in the Charolais Herdbook, so plenty of backups.

    '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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    #2831
    grassroot1
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    Hummer is mo2281 sexed montbelliard tought he might bring in milk


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    #2832
    Sheep breeder
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    2691 progeny registered to Fiston in the Charolais Herdbook, so plenty of backups.

    It will be good to see if Fiston daughters turn out maternal as the stars are predicting


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    #2833
    Bigbird1
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    Sheep breeder wrote: »
    It will be good to see if Fiston daughters turn out maternal as the stars are predicting

    Anyone have any daughters calved ??


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    #2834
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,259 ✭✭✭tanko


    Bigbird1 wrote: »
    Anyone have any daughters calved ??

    I had a few of them here and sold them, wouldnt think they’d make good cows.


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    #2835
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    ICBF have fiston well proven at this stage. 5 stars for replacement. His functionality is down at 3% though. That doesnt look good.

    '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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    #2836
    GiantPencil
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    ICBF have fiston well proven at this stage. 5 stars for replacement. His functionality is down at 3% though. That doesnt look good.
    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    ICBF have fiston well proven at this stage. 5 stars for replacement. His functionality is down at 3% though. That doesnt look good.
    His daughters seem fertile enough and their calving difficulty is a bit above average for Charolais but Milk is poor...wouldn't be keeping his daughters as replacements unless they were more maternal in their back breeding. Fiston daughter off a Salers cow would be nice I'd say


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    #2837
    The man in red and black
    Registered Users Posts: 666 ✭✭✭The man in red and black


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    Yes I will AI for 2 rounds teaser out tomorrow, if I can hire a bull or buy a mature bull I will only AI for 1 more round.If I have 40% repeats or less I will be very happy
    Protocol was Prid for 8 days Estrumate on day 7 Prid out am day 8 Receptal on AI day in the am.If there are Cows bulling tomorrow am I will serve those again just in case. I dont have a cost yet. Housing for soft calves will be the hardest part should have enough calving boxes

    Good program. Should do well for you. Great to have calves in batches for jobs like dehorning, tagging etc. Not cheap but cheaper than calving running on for months and months.


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    #2838
    grassroot1
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    Its the management end of it I like. If youre pushed during an intense calving period its not as bad as being wore out slowly over a longer spell.
    The chance to use AI over a larger section of the herd,proven bulls etc
    Cutting down on the number of times we have to get the cows also helps


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    #2839
    The man in red and black
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    Is Blelack Digger dead or why has all the talk of him dried up in the last year or two? Super ratings on that bull.


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    #2840
    dodo mommy
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭dodo mommy


    The man in red and black wrote: »
    Is Blelack Digger dead or why has all the talk of him dried up in the last year or two? Super ratings on that bull.

    I was looking to get straws by him earlier this year but was told by ai company they were all gone.


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    #2841
    The man in red and black
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    dodo mommy wrote: »
    I was looking to get straws by him earlier this year but was told by ai company they were all gone.

    Pity as he is so highly rated. He seemed to be gone so fast once popular. You'd think they would have taken thousands of straws off of a bull like that but maybe he died quicker than they expected or was a poor semen producer?


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    #2842
    Hard Knocks
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    The man in red and black wrote: »
    Pity as he is so highly rated. He seemed to be gone so fast once popular. You'd think they would have taken thousands of straws off of a bull like that but maybe he died quicker than they expected or was a poor semen producer?
    He was with ABS & when NCBC bought out ABD maybe they just got what was left in the pot


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    #2843
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭High bike


    Have a lady here 13 days overdue to Willodge Cerberus and not a notion of calving anyone any experience of him fo calving ease gestation temprament etc.


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    #2844
    Who2
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    High bike wrote: »
    Have a lady here 13 days overdue to Willodge Cerberus and not a notion of calving anyone any experience of him fo calving ease gestation temprament etc.

    i had a few heifers i bought off him, serious animals, but couldnt tell you what hes like to calve.


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    #2845
    patsy_mccabe
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    High bike wrote: »
    Have a lady here 13 days overdue to Willodge Cerberus and not a notion of calving anyone any experience of him fo calving ease gestation temprament etc.
    Is that 13 days from date of AI plus 292 days? Bad experience here with a Cerberus heifer. Had to get rid of her before she killed someone.

    '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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    #2846
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭High bike


    Who2 wrote: »
    i had a few heifers i bought off him, serious animals, but couldnt tell you what hes like to calve.
    Are you going to breed them


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    #2847
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Is that 13 days from date of AI plus 292 days? Bad experience here with a Cerberus heifer. Had to get rid of her before she killed someone.
    Jaysus Patsy don’t say that I have enough mad yokes already:DWell the cow is quiet as a lamb so that might help she’s 295 days today and looking like another week I’d say


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    #2848
    Who2
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    High bike wrote: »
    Are you going to breed them

    was, ended up selling on one and lost the other to tb, she was without question the classiest animal i ever had here. She had gone incalf within a week of buying her when the word came back from the factory.


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    #2849
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,453 ✭✭✭High bike


    Who2 wrote: »
    was, ended up selling on one and lost the other to tb, she was without question the classiest animal i ever had here. She had gone incalf within a week of buying her when the word came back from the factory.
    thats bad luck were they purebred


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    #2850
    patsy_mccabe
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    High bike wrote: »
    Jaysus Patsy don’t say that I have enough mad yokes already:DWell the cow is quiet as a lamb so that might help she’s 295 days today and looking like another week I’d say

    295 is only 3 days over. Nothing to worry about. If cow is quiet, you'll be grand for docility.

    '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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    #2851
    Who2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭Who2


    High bike wrote: »
    thats bad luck were they purebred

    no, i far rather cross breds. i keep 4 or 5 pb limo alright but it wouldnt be a deciding factor if buying. ive a couple of pb sim too. all in i think theres more out of a nice showy cross bred than any pb. i find them harder kept and harder get back in calf too and you only get the big coin if you spend all your spare time washing and pricking around with them.


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