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Ah ah! Steady. Don’t diss the Simmental as a cow. Wouldn’t want a Sim bull on the place but I love Sim x cows. Run a lim over them and you’re away!No, your too busy feeding your big hungry Simmental’s !!
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Ah ah! Steady. Don’t diss the Simmental as a cow. Wouldn’t want a Sim bull on the place but I love Sim x cows. Run a lim over them and you’re away!No, your too busy feeding your big hungry Simmental’s !!
Looks like I'm a bit late to the party, but hey I thought I'd best give my input!We are currently running Angus & Hereford bulls with cows and heifers and I’m in the past we’ve also ran a limousin as well. Looking to re introduce an easy calving limousin in the near future but also looking for another breed (tired stabiliser and it wasn’t great). Looking for a breed with good temperament, easy calving, will produce good breeders and produce calves with good growth rates. Cows are a mix of breeds mainly LimX also have quite a few Angus, Simmental and Salers. All suggestions welcome
Eh?! What’s that? Never heard of a Nguni before?!
Plus one for Blonde if you don’t want another Lim.Looks like I'm a bit late to the party, but hey I thought I'd best give my input!
If you've considered Lim, and reading the comments, Bazadaise, then have you considered a Blonde?
They cross very well over native/sim bred cows in our experience (no experience with Salers yet, got one due in the next mth or so), generally easy born and grow well producing shapey calfs. Ours are bred for good temperament to.
Will you be finishing the progeny yourself or sell as stores? Either way we find they are usually in the top prices in our local markets.
Plenty more discussion and chat on the 'Blonde Bulls' thread
Or worse… which waterproof jacket…This thread will be like which pickup
We have a neighbour with blonde’s. A breed that’s never really taken off here.Looks like I'm a bit late to the party, but hey I thought I'd best give my input!
If you've considered Lim, and reading the comments, Bazadaise, then have you considered a Blonde?
They cross very well over native/sim bred cows in our experience (no experience with Salers yet, got one due in the next mth or so), generally easy born and grow well producing shapey calfs. Ours are bred for good temperament to.
Will you be finishing the progeny yourself or sell as stores? Either way we find they are usually in the top prices in our local markets.
Plenty more discussion and chat on the 'Blonde Bulls' thread
If you open the Facebook page & read the comments, there is an explanation.Eh?! What’s that? Never heard of a Nguni before?!
@choochterNot a recommendation as such Graham, but if I were to go back into sucklers, a relatively new (to me) breed that I'd be seriously looking into and considering using would be a Bazadaise.
There's a lady on here whom I can't for the life of me remember her (user)name, breeds them and her quality stock is what caught my attention to the breed.
I must admit though, that I haven't had any first hand experience of the breed.
No don't see many of them and if I do they don't make much.ah...Ruby country? (mutual respect)
For a while Charolais were the in demand breed around here, but over the last few years there seems to have been a change, Charolais are still popular but Angus seem to becoming popular again, there’s an article in this weeks farmers journal about it. We like the angus and have worked with them since going into breeding in 2014 but we need to breed good heifers with a bit of stretch about them to help with expansion because buying them is getting costlyNo don't see many of them and if I do they don't make much.
Limmy, blue, angus, hford round here.
As Sam said best to sell what folk around want to buy.
That said I can't really understand why there are not more SD's around perhaps living is to good, it would be for Devons.
That one of the differences twixt them.No don't see many of them and if I do they don't make much.
Limmy, blue, angus, hford round here.
As Sam said best to sell what folk around want to buy.
That said I can't really understand why there are not more SD's around perhaps living is to good, it would be for Devons.
I remember 30 odd years ago going to look at several herds in the SW ( it was the time of the breed society centenary). One breeder in particular had gone down the route of double muscling, but the penalty seemed to be that the resulting progeny were smaller.After college I worked on farm calving 100 south Devon cows, some of them obviously carried 1 muscle gene and so did the bulls as had 8-10 calves that came out with double copy with more muscle than a blue ,knocked a few cows about with prolapses , and think we lost one calf through a hard calving . Had a couple born with the big muscley tongues too which took a week to suck cow properly. The calves looked unbelievable at 4-5 months, but weren’t much bigger at 12 months and never grew to much at all .
looked at a few nerds m'selfI remember 30 odd years ago going to look at several nerds in the SW ( it was the time of the breed society centenary). One breeder in particular had gone down the route of double muscling, but the penalty seemed to be that the resulting progeny were smaller.
Sorry - typo now edited!looked at a few nerds m'self