Livestock pictures
- Thread starter Samcowman
- Start date
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
- Location
- Shropshire
I like the cows and take a lot of pride in the herd and the calves which we fatten.
I don’t get the same job satisfaction from bought in cattle (which I fatten too).
also, I sold 9 homebred cull cows this week and they averaged £1300. Not bad considering the youngest was 13!
- Location
- Shropshire
I really fancy getting 10-12 Hereford cows and having a mini herd to run alongside our limmy crosses
Yours look a picture
- Location
- Cornwall
I thought I would try to compete with hillys
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view
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Nice picture but IMHO none of us can really compare with @Hilly 's view
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I know a man who could fix you up with some line one Herefords, pm me if you would like more information.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I’d love grass like that !! Cattle looking tremendous .
- Location
- Cornwall
We had no grass until 2 weeks ago then it just jumped out of the ground after some much needed rain.the view for the week has only been about 20 feet due to fog makes checking the calvers at night hard work !
harperfarmer
Member
New lad growing on nicely in his first year working
harperfarmer
Member
Last spring born calf just starting to fill out nicely. Born end of April from a homebred heifer.
- Location
- Northumberland
Are you all Lim bull onto BBx cows now? You have great cattle!
harperfarmer
Member
Thanks yes have been all lim bulls for a couple of years now but bought a blonde this time to go across some blues to breed some heifers. Also have a number of first cross lim cows and are keeping the 3/4 heifers back with a view to buying a blue bull next year to put back on the lim cows, again to breed heifers. Then will keep criss crossing the three breeds. A work in progress and they can always be better!
bean
Member
- Location
- holsworthy
Do you think you lose much milk once you get away from first cross from dairy?
harperfarmer
Member
It's a bit too early to tell as we've only just started retaining homebred heifers but I think it's inevitable we'll lose some milk but as long as its not a huge amount and detrimental to calf weights I can live with it. If anything the blue x dairy can have too much milk early on and I just want to tidy up bags and have a slightly more functional cow. I love the blue x dairy but they don't last that long and the calves are quite inconsistent, either top notch or slightly disappointing. Hopefully a beef bred cow will start to give a more regular uniform crop of calves. Time will tell.
- Location
- Shropshire
That can be a good thing though, as I find first cross dairy blues don’t have great longevity.
The second cross back to lims tend to last a lot longer
- Location
- Buxton, Derbyshire
Blonde??
harperfarmer
Member
Yes Katem Paddington. Seems to have settled well. Proof of the pudding will be next spring 
- Location
- Northumberland
Are Blondes quieter than Limousins ?Yes Katem Paddington. Seems to have settled well. Proof of the pudding will be next spring
harperfarmer
Member
He's a big softy who loves a scratch in the field but for all I know his calves might turn out to be nut jobs . All part of the fun
