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Livestock/General Farming photo thread TAKE #2 ::::RULES IN 1st POST::::
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Thought they were both bulls when you had them together. Nice heifer for start of june. Nice width. What weight would you think she is.
Brother and sister, same bull and dams have the same cow in back breeding so close enough
She's about 340ish I'd say, better bone than him but not as mush flesh.0 -
Fine calves, nice muscle to Andy but prefer KJB.
Hope they go well for you.
Will they be for the Spring 17 sales?
Yeah, Spring 2017 all going well, both came in 4 & 5 stars on the maternal and terminal traits. Also under 5% on calving ease. So hears hoping. Have 3 for this year one will be 18 months come April and the other 2 will be 14/15 months in April/may. All are 4/5 stars on the two traits. So hopefully I will have some customers as I sell from home, no time for halter training
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Some photos.:) Have bought a new Limousine bull. Nearly 22 months old.
This yera we'd the biggest calf so far. 70kgs Limousine sired bull calf out of Angusx 3rd calver. Needed a slight assistance at first, but it wasn't a hard pull.
15 days old.
The elder Limousine bull we've is 4years old. Now have his 3rd set of calves born. Pretty happy about what he gives to the calves. Plus really like his calm personality and easy calving. Every year have a small number of heifers calving to that bull and rarely have problems. Average birth weight ~40-43kgs, however had a few smaller ~32-34kgs and a few over 50kgs. And a month ago the biggest was born- 70kgs, but the size of the calf came from the cow, not the bull. Last year she had a heifer calf from the same bull, ~40-45kgs birth weight, so haven't expected something extreme. Her 1st calf was AI Angus sired bull calf, 54kgs weight and unfortunately dead.
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Some photos.:) Have bought a new Limousine bull. Nearly 22 months old.
This yera we'd the biggest calf so far. 70kgs Limousine sired bull calf out of Angusx 3rd calver. Needed a slight assistance at first, but it wasn't a hard pull.
15 days old.
The elder Limousine bull we've is 4years old. Now have his 3rd set of calves born. Pretty happy about what he gives to the calves. Plus really like his calm personality and easy calving. Every year have a small number of heifers calving to that bull and rarely have problems. Average birth weight ~40-43kgs, however had a few smaller ~32-34kgs and a few over 50kgs. And a month ago the biggest was born- 70kgs, but the size of the calf came from the cow, not the bull. Last year she had a heifer calf from the same bull, ~40-45kgs birth weight, so haven't expected something extreme. Her 1st calf was AI Angus sired bull calf, 54kgs weight and unfortunately dead.
Fantastic stock there Golodge. Love the heifers!0 -
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Some photos.:) Have bought a new Limousine bull. Nearly 22 months old.
This yera we'd the biggest calf so far. 70kgs Limousine sired bull calf out of Angusx 3rd calver. Needed a slight assistance at first, but it wasn't a hard pull.
15 days old.
The elder Limousine bull we've is 4years old. Now have his 3rd set of calves born. Pretty happy about what he gives to the calves. Plus really like his calm personality and easy calving. Every year have a small number of heifers calving to that bull and rarely have problems. Average birth weight ~40-43kgs, however had a few smaller ~32-34kgs and a few over 50kgs. And a month ago the biggest was born- 70kgs, but the size of the calf came from the cow, not the bull. Last year she had a heifer calf from the same bull, ~40-45kgs birth weight, so haven't expected something extreme. Her 1st calf was AI Angus sired bull calf, 54kgs weight and unfortunately dead.
Fine stock golodge. Good luck with the bull. And welcome back. How's the weather there?0 -
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Thank you. Almost all heifers in these photos will be left as replacements, except the black with white marks in the last photo. Have sold her a couple months ago. She was 7/8 Limo, but lacked some width.
Both the light red heifers with white marks on their heads will be bred by the new bull after a couple weeks, when the new boy will get used to us.
All these calves are out of 1/2 or 3/4 beef cows. The best calves, solid red ones, are out of the same breeding cows. Have three now. They are sired by AI AngusxSalers bull, out of BBxdairy cows. Cows are nothing special, but their calves have some power.
Is it a common thing to use crossbred bulls there? Lovely cattle, the front of that calf, he built like a tank!! 0 -
Is it a common thing to use crossbred bulls there? Lovely cattle, the front of that calf, he built like a tank!!
Not very common. Actualy a lot of people don't like crossbred cattle, even cows, and say that pureberd cattle are the best.
We've used two year in a row two our homebred crossbred bulls. Both were 7/8beef, 1/7 dairy. One was Angus sired out of U grade 3/4Limo cow. He wasn't very good, but we were tired of using AI after our vet hasn't come for the third time for one cow. That bull however has left some good calves. He was R grade bull, but some of his calves have reached U grade. One his son out of Angusxdairy cow had 61% kill-out, another bull out of AngusxSalers x BBxdairy cow had 63% kill-out, so we were pretty happy. Have left 5 his daughters as replacements. Now they are going to have their second calves.
Another bull we used was Angus sired out of 3/4Charolais cow. He had a very good growth and he gave that for his calves. His calves had bigger bones, so avarage birth weight was bigger, but we haven't had any problems. The kill-out was a bit lower than the first one's calves, but much better growth and more U grades from bulls. From 10 had 9 U. Have left all his daughters as replacements, 9 in total. They've calved a couple months ago. All calved by themselves easily, looks that have lots of milk and are very quiet.
So in general, our experience with crossbred bulls was good, but needs to choose a good one. Also in the herd, where are a few breeds cows, calves from crossbred bull can be very different.0 -
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The big calf will be one month old tomorrow. He should be around 100kgs now. Other calves look pretty small next to him, even 1-2 months elder.
That's our elder bull.
That's our homebred crossbred bull we've used for one summer. AngusxCharx.
Some of his calves:
Another homebred bull we used wasn't very good, but worked better than our vet. AngusxLimox.
His calves:
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