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How’s he bred?
Backwards calves…the bull?
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Northeastfarmer
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Cross bred. Blue x limmy
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I was tempting myself to have one of those.
They say the blues need to be fine legged to calve easy
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Tbh I’m not that bothered about anything that fancy anymore, most of our cattle go deadweight and there’s not much difference in price between the grades. I’m looking for less work with them.
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We had a blue it was a cow killer absolute nightmare I think we only used it one summer and that was too much
It was in the early days it had legs like an elephant
Skintagain
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I have seen some bloody right hassles off cross bulls where I have worked
some throw grand even calves some throw one way or the other.
Skintagain
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I have a relative who keeps them lean and ends up with big calves but cows are half dairy bred
know a chap with pure limo and they are fit as fire but pop calves out no bother always staggers me
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Northeastfarmer
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As much as I like good shaped cattle I’m getting to the point I just want to go in the shed and see a calf up and sucking. Everything that needs assistance seems to want it at bedtime as well
Skintagain
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I know where you are coming from. Stakes have got so high nowadays that a death or the hassle isn’t worth the premium
Skintagain
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Had a fair few single lambs coming backwards from a Charley tup same big lambs maybe can’t turn inside
Northeastfarmer
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The sheep have given no bother at all this year and it’s usually them that do. The cows have sickened me
Skintagain
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Keep your chin up cocker.
Sheep have fired them out for fun this year even spied a few pushing them out backwards just an odd one needed a hand never lambed so few ewes. No pure texel tups ablut though…..
do you know the gestation length of the ones that have given trouble ?
limmy's tend to be longer than blues, your cross maybe has the gestation length of a limmy ?
harperfarmer
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This has always been my fear with cross bulls. Could get the best of both or the worst of both.
Hilly
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I used to use them , they are hit n miss some calve ok others are twits …
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I had a spell around this time last year had cows and calves in separate pens with various problems it felt like I was going round the bend at times with everything else that was going on
Hilly
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Same here in the way that the cows are painfully slow to calve and stulpid issues like a calf with broken hip today had to euthanise it about broke my bloody heart .
I've noticed we have odd years with more than one breach....but then they're fine, with none at all* years either side.
(pure bred South Devons)
Same bulls, same cows, (and same pee poor level of nutrition.....)
*none that I see....who knows what happens when they calve themselves overnight
Been working a bull all his life- now struggling to find cows he can run with, and mostly used as a crossing bull on Galloways.
We once had to caeser a calf of his as it was monstrously big. The biggest calf I ever saw.
But he's worked years and years, and I seldom even have to give a calf of his a tug.
I'm thankful that monster wasn't in his first season...his head would've had to come right off, and I'd now be deprived of his fantastic offspring.
(pure bred South Devons)
Same bulls, same cows, (and same pee poor level of nutrition.....)
*none that I see....who knows what happens when they calve themselves overnight
Been working a bull all his life- now struggling to find cows he can run with, and mostly used as a crossing bull on Galloways.
We once had to caeser a calf of his as it was monstrously big. The biggest calf I ever saw.
But he's worked years and years, and I seldom even have to give a calf of his a tug.
I'm thankful that monster wasn't in his first season...his head would've had to come right off, and I'd now be deprived of his fantastic offspring.
dave6470
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Things like that can go in run's
Ive just had 7 calf's in row present with one foot back
all from the same bull that i ve had for 3 years and never had a problem before
Ive just had 7 calf's in row present with one foot back
all from the same bull that i ve had for 3 years and never had a problem before
Northeastfarmer
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I’m afraid the bulls go out on a certain date and I leave them get on with it so only know when they are due to start