dairy bulls

whelan1

so what ye going to use this year?

Cowmad

We are using seaver,fever, Smithden admiral,Mr Sam. Monamore Electron,Lavanguard.Thats the lot so far

stanflt

all type no protein:eek: a real ihfa man:)

awaywithyou

jaysus cowmad..... putting all the eggs in one basket with that bunch....

stanflt what bulls ye using?

ourselves...

ROF
CGH
Morningview Levi
McCormick
AXN

linebacker52

lhk
llk
bqb
okm
mdw
hyz
lrw
bsh

Finno59

Pkk for the early cows
HYZ
BQB
MDW

Miller80

Wyman, Domino, Altaross and Genuine

jeff greene

Interested to know what you are using on your Oman granddaughters, running the inbreeding calculator shows bulls like Levi and Pondor are fine?


I’m using Ponder- UCL, Stonewall- S1163, Doberman-S962, Mel-NTM, will use some Cricket and Emerald- VZD also.

Cowmad

the protein is fine for this year so thats why im using them bulls to push up the milk and type. We used oman sons with the last 2years so thats why i changed.

awaywithyou

jeff greene wrote: »

Interested to know what you are using on your Oman granddaughters, running the inbreeding calculator shows bulls like Levi and Pondor are fine?


I’m using Ponder- UCL, Stonewall- S1163, Doberman-S962, Mel-NTM, will use some Cricket and Emerald- VZD also.

inbreeding calculator.... where does a lad find that.........?? it would come in handy

jeff greene

ICBF website, if you're a member.

stanflt

well i just did a stock take of the flask and this year ill using a lot of
different bulls- want to get the stock down

s789
irp
llk
pnh
gmz
rxr
flt
axn
only 3-4 of all the above



dsu
pkk
hzy
nft
hva
tsk
s1178
pdw
and a few new very young genomic test sires

Finno59

are some of the IBR progressive bulls like nft and flt still avaliable or are they leftover straws from last year.

stanflt

took alot of stock of sok flt pkk axn llk irp when the outbreak happened

PMU

how many of you use ebi as a yardstick for breeding. me i would be looking at bulls with an ebi of 150+ , about 100 of that for fertility. also crossbreeding as I am spring calving and I want compact calving

linebacker52

PMU wrote: »

how many of you use ebi as a yardstick for breeding. me i would be looking at bulls with an ebi of 150+ , about 100 of that for fertility. also crossbreeding as I am spring calving and I want compact calving

same as you i would be looking for bulls over 200 ebi its the only thing i consider when choosing bulls also spring calving using some jeresy this year aswell looking for compact calving higher solids the way we are paid for our milk is changing.

dar31

some are from last autum, and the rest new stock
AWB
AXN
DSU
HMY
HZY
LHZ
LRW
MJS
S308
TSK

anyone use the sire advise part of icbf, is it any use, and what sort of parmitiers does it use for matching bulls to cows

bogman_bass

lads are going mad for HMY this year. lads seem to be chasing production more this year than fertility (solids rather than volume) also more interest in proven bulls again

are any of the type men using goldsun (TFG)?

oooge1

bgj hyz mjd gfs sfz tio bsj.. thats my lot.. milk solids and decent fertility..

deerejohn

bogman_bass wrote: »

lads are going mad for HMY this year. lads seem to be chasing production more this year than fertility (solids rather than volume) also more interest in proven bulls again

are any of the type men using goldsun (TFG)?

Used goldsun for flushing and a few individual cows,

Bulls being used in large numbers,

PMZ - Palermo
S938 - Altaiota
AXN - Ardnasalem Seven
RXO - Ramos
GJM - McCormick

Medium numbers

CGH - Crockett Acres Eight
S908 - Ralma Gold Crown
Twist (sexed)
Derren(sexed)
Lureck(sexed)

Small numbers

Windhammer
Goldsun
Lexor
Lauthority
Fever
Sid

farmad

any one using norweigen red i find them very good

Min

I have never used NR but might try some this year, there are two high EBI - BSJ and EKE that look interesting.
What is the temperament of the NR like?

Isn't the updated EBI figures for dairy bulls out today?

cosatron

first year diy ai and im using the following for production and solids, we have a small herd and we're trying to increase production prior to the quota being abolished-
hmy
cgh
rof
awb
mxz
has anyone any experience of the gillette breed. gillette smurph has just gained the record for lifetime production over 200,000 kg. munster ai have gillette windbrook in stock