Speckled Park Breed

50HX

anyone with any experience of the above mentioned breed??

Just calved down WRO to a heifer

no bother calving, up and drinking in no time, from a distance you'd think she was a BB

Nice shape to her

thinking of putting a few more heifers in calving to him

Miname

had a couple. i was really impressed, they had good growth rates on mine anyway, surpassed my ch and lim. short gestation and damn hardy. i'm just wondering why i havent put them on more heifers.

tractorporn

50HX wrote:

Just calved down WRO to a heifer

Had never heard of them before now but a quick Google and can't find anything not to like and they look like seriously good looking cattle. Did you use Ai? Where did you get the straws?

50HX

tractorporn wrote: »

Had never heard of them before now but a quick Google and can't find anything not to like and they look like seriously good looking cattle. Did you use Ai? Where did you get the straws?

yeah all AI here,

got the straws off Munster

Dozer1

bought 2 cows with 2 speckle park heifers at foot, cows are quiet but calves are stone cracked, but might be down to the previous owner.

They seem very hardy so far

lab man

They're nice cattle have a heifer thought she was a blue wen buying at the mart was lively enough till 18 mts but she started to calm down then

thegreatgonzo

tractorporn wrote: »

Had never heard of them before now but a quick Google and can't find anything not to like and they look like seriously good looking cattle. Did you use Ai? Where did you get the straws?

Think Dovea do too.

50HX

50HX wrote: »

yeah all AI here,

got the straws off Munster

correction

just got 15 straws off Bova

kollegeknight

Dad Hot a lmx heifer inseminated with knockane uproar (s804) from bova. Hardy handy heifer. Caught up to other heifers size wise.

Crossed her with our lim bull and a white heifer with red ears came out. She had a bull calf this year and a handy red calf came out.

Both calves out of her were pure hardy at birth no calving difficulty.
Attached is the heifer calf off a speckle park X and pb lim bull. She is 8 months there and pure cheeky.

I would use speckle park on heifers again.

tractorporn

Saw a speckle park calf on my travels yesterday. Lovely lively calf but smallish. Owner said that he was filling out well and was up suckling within 20 mins and he looked seriously hardy running round a creep. Not sure who the daddy was came out of Progressive Genetics would be very tempted to chance him on some heifers.

50HX

the one SP calf that i have at the moment seems to be heading the same way as KYA, small on arrival but starting to come into her own now 5weeks

goin to chance another 4-5 this year and see

ruben37

Super looking cattle, there doesn't seem to be much on the known advertising platforms in the way of pedigree females. How would a pedigree Speckled Park bull cross with a pedigree Charolais maiden heifer.

50HX

have 3 heifers calving down to wro in the next few weeks - will let ye know how they go since the one i tried last year is in great shape

kollegeknight

My speckle park is on her third calf. (S804 off a limx heifer)



Calf 1 heifer off stock bull. - pure white (she calved herself this week to AA bull ZLL)
Calf 2 red bull off stock bull- nice bull.
Calf 3 heifer last night off ZLL and calf came out just like her mother. Gorgeous heifer and mother in great condition.

kay 9

kollegeknight wrote: »

My speckle park is on her third calf.



Calf 1 heifer off stock bull. - pure white (she calved herself this week to AA bull ZLL)
Calf 2 red bull off stock bull- nice bull.
Calf 3 heifer last night off ZLL and calf came out just like her mother. Gorgeous heifer and mother in great condition.

Are the polled as well? Heads seem to be.

kollegeknight

kay 9 wrote: »

Are the polled as well? Heads seem to be.

All polled so far. Great comfort there. Dad just tried out a wro straw and we kept her.

50HX

keepin as a replacement

50HX

2 heifer calves from this year

carrollsno1

Anyone know the price of the dovea straws might try them this year have 4 heifers calving at 24 months and 1 at 30 months might stick her to limmy though and what woukd they cross like on simmental x fr blue x aa and 2 angus x fr/je

50HX

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Anyone know the price of the dovea straws might try them this year have 4 heifers calving at 24 months and 1 at 30 months might stick her to limmy though and what woukd they cross like on simmental x fr blue x aa and 2 angus x fr/je

wro price last year was 10euro

would a agree with limo for the 30mnth if she's anyway strong - try zag

carrollsno1

50HX wrote: »

wro price last year was 10euro

would a agree with limo for the 30mnth if she's anyway strong - try zag

Is wro with dovea was gonna use MLJ if i wasnt using these

lab man

50HX wrote:

would a agree with limo for the 30mnth if she's anyway strong - try zag

Zag calves are crazy

carrollsno1

lab man wrote: »

Zag calves are crazy

Something easy calved and quite if thats possible with lm

davidk1394

Did ye have any difficulty fattening them? Fella i do milking for tried 2 to see what their like. They grew into fine animals but were very slow to fill

50HX

lab man wrote: »

Zag calves are crazy

good few zags this year and couldn't say they were crazy......so far

lab man

50HX wrote:

good few zags this year and couldn't say they were crazy......so far

Only going by ones born here

ford4610

Done a bit of research into buying a few pedigree females. They are all naturally polled, they are a cross between a Shorthorn and a Angus. Calves can be a low birth weight but thrive quickly as the mothers have a high fat percentage in their milk. Apparently very easy calving and cross very well on continental cattle.

lab man

They are originally from Rome Italy seen a programme on them a few years ago

kollegeknight

lab man wrote: »

They are originally from Rome Italy seen a programme on them a few years ago

I thought ''twas a roan shorthorn crossed with AA in Canada.

ford4610

lab man wrote: »

They are originally from Rome Italy seen a programme on them a few years ago

Not through, they are originally from Canada.

croot

50HX wrote: »

good few zags this year and couldn't say they were crazy......so far

Same as that. I've been using him for two years and have a good few calves off him and so far one heifer is flighty. Pretty average for lims I think.

croot

lab man wrote: »

They are originally from Rome Italy seen a programme on them a few years ago

No they are Canadian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckle_Park

bogman_bass

lab man wrote: »

They are originally from Rome Italy seen a programme on them a few years ago

I think you're thinking of Piedmontese

tanko

croot wrote: »

Same as that. I've been using him for two years and have a good few calves off him and so far one heifer is flighty. Pretty average for lims I think.

Anyone who thinks ZAG calves are crazy must've never used OEI, NSQ or FL21, plenty of nutters off those:pac:

Limestone Cowboy

tanko wrote: »

Anyone who thinks ZAG calves are crazy must've never used OEI, NSQ or FL21, plenty of nutters off those:pac:

OEI gives me shivers.

kollegeknight

Just looking over books etc. she was a LM off the stock bull and off the SPX in the photos.
This is the calf in previous posts. I sold her at 23 months off the yard for €990 in March 2019. She was killed in September @29 months with 341kg carcass U-4-

Anyone have any opinion was that a good kill out or not and would it have taken much for me to get to that point if I kept her? Or would it have been worth it? I had originally thought to put her in my own freezer but allure of money... I also thought to keep her for a cow.... can’t do that now.

k mac

kollegeknight wrote: »

Just looking over books etc. she was a LM off the stock bull and off the SPX in the photos.
This is the calf in previous posts. I sold her at 23 months off the yard for €990 in March 2019. She was killed in September @29 months with 341kg carcass U-4-

Anyone have any opinion was that a good kill out or not and would it have taken much for me to get to that point if I kept her? Or would it have been worth it? I had originally thought to put her in my own freezer but allure of money... I also thought to keep her for a cow.... can’t do that now.

Were you happy with 990 at 23 months. Did she leave a few euros . If she had been on meal it would be tight. Lovely looking cattle but if keeping for 2 years would they need to be making better money

kollegeknight

k mac wrote: »

Were you happy with 990 at 23 months. Did she leave a few euros . If she had been on meal it would be tight. Lovely looking cattle but if keeping for 2 years would they need to be making better money

No she wasn’t on meal. Just silage. The €990 was ok as mother is very easy to feed and no medical issues. Literally dosing and tb test. The €990 kept the bank account going. I regretted selling her other than that- I was keeping her as a cow but her stars had dropped.

lab man

kollegeknight wrote: »

No she wasn’t on meal. Just silage. The €990 was ok as mother is very easy to feed and no medical issues. Literally dosing and tb test. The €990 kept the bank account going. I regretted selling her other than that- I was keeping her as a cow but her stars had dropped.

Have u any more k

kollegeknight

lab man wrote: »

Have u any more k

I’ve the sp cow in photo- she is 2013. Her first daughter. Handy cow, ok calves but very low cost cows that cross well with the LM bull. I’ve one heifer from last year. Going to hold onto her as she is a red version of that lady in the photo, except she has horns so probably more LM.

I had two spx heifers I bought off a dairy herd but turned out to be out of jersey cattle and not suited for breeding at all. Ended up with two sections. I didn’t put them in calf again.

Great temperament cattle. Still trying to figure are they worth a punt or not. The LMx I have are equally as quiet so it might be just the herd I have,

squinn2912

They’re lovely cattle. Every now n again I get an itch to go more shorthorn or try a few SP. but we sold 2 Lim heifers last week at 20 mths £1320 around 600kgs. Meal in them but not 300 quid of it. Whatever way
I think it out I’m back where I started, lim