Beef Shorthorn x Limousin?
- Thread starter RC1019
- Start date
A very good x make great cows and can put them to any bull.
- Location
- Cheshire
Great cows, ours live out all year and the calves all come a consistent red put back to a lim! I would just make sure that you use an easy calving bull on the first x heifers for atleast the first calving, I’ve just had some bad luck calving a bunch of heifers to a new bull that’s been throwing MASSIVE calves!! Not something I’ve had previous problems with and the bull won’t be getting a second chance
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Do you breed your own heifers?
Aspiring Peasants
Member
- Location
- North Pennines
Got some, very good long lived cows, would get more if I came across them
How do you find the steers from the initial cross are to sell? Or is the best part really the heifers to make replacement cows?
cheviot53
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- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Had some and they were wild and dangerous and passed this onto their calves , only one left and will be glad when its gone , and from more than one sire , now have shorthorn x simmental quieter and more milk
Idea really was to sell the calves in the store rather than keeping for cows
I couldn’t say that, I’ve had quite a few over the years and there’s only one that had temperament issues and that was only at calving. I do prefer the simmy x shorthorn as well.
No problem, they just come like lims
I’ve got sim cross aswell and get on well with them too, put back to a lim, all my cows started off as shorthorns and stayed that way for many years and then we started losing quite a few to TB and so started keeping more of the lim cross back to bull, could do with getting another shorthorn bull really or I’ll be going too continental for my out door system! When there taking ten to twenty five cows a time off you, you can soon run short on cows 
- Location
- Huntingdon
If you did it the other way round lim cows , SH bull you’d get the names native sire premium