Ayrshire cattle

[upnortheast]

I don’t think his dad has learned yet

ahh, genetics

 

[dairyrow]

Did anybody go to the sale today. Hassall brothers are very quiet on fb

 

[Far Gloss]

Did anybody go to the sale today. Hassall brothers are very quiet on fb

Yes, the Ayrshire cows looked great. I saw one make 2000 gns. The youngstock were still being sold when I left at 4 pm.

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Any recommendations for a bull to use over Jersey X Friesian heifers?

I'm looking to maintain a 500-550 kg cow, tidy udder and strength throughout for a low input forage based system.

I've got 40 calving to oblique next month. I'll probably use some more oblique but I'm looking to spread my risk a bit.

 

[coomoo]

Any recommendations for a bull to use over Jersey X Friesian heifers?

I'm looking to maintain a 500-550 kg cow, tidy udder and strength throughout for a low input forage based system.

I've got 40 calving to oblique next month. I'll probably use some more oblique but I'm looking to spread my risk a bit.

Not worried about compromise on your constituents. Looked at Canadian Ayrshire?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Not worried about compromise on your constituents. Looked at Canadian Ayrshire?

I haven't looked at any Canadian. Who supplies them?

Constituents will inevitably fall a bit but as long as they make up for it in volume then I'm not too fussed.

 

[Big_D]

Any recommendations for a bull to use over Jersey X Friesian heifers?

I'm looking to maintain a 500-550 kg cow, tidy udder and strength throughout for a low input forage based system.

I've got 40 calving to oblique next month. I'll probably use some more oblique but I'm looking to spread my risk a bit.

I'd go rosehill manderville, don't have any here yet but based on proof, I'm using him wherever I can, but fairly limited due to bulls I've used in the past

 

[O'Reilly]

Canadian Ayrshire would make them too big?
Had our first Ayrshire sired calves for a long time here this last autumn, mother said they were all difficult to teach to suck. Better not have any more for a while!

 

[Llmmm]

Any recommendations for a bull to use over Jersey X Friesian heifers?

I'm looking to maintain a 500-550 kg cow, tidy udder and strength throughout for a low input forage based system.

I've got 40 calving to oblique next month. I'll probably use some more oblique but I'm looking to spread my risk a bit.

New zealand has found the answer in using crossbred bulls im not convinced but out of curiosity ive tried some on jersey holstein ive seen alot of large herds now using just crossbred bulls

 

[som farmer]

we bought 38 xbreds of a farm this spring, mostly older cows, the farmer just chucks a lot of xbred bulls out, done the same for years. Of the 38, 30 will calve below 400 days, of them 25 will be under 365 ! 1 died, 3 not pd'd yet, but way over time, av yield, slightly difficult to compute, due to the shorter calving index, but computer tells me the av 305 day lactation will be 6500 litres, these are all of doubtful parentage, makes me wonder why we take so much time, choosing bulls to use, because I really can't fault the figures ! But, I do feel xbred bulls, shouldn't be used, ingrained thinking, from decades of farming ?

 

[upnortheast]

Canadian Ayrshire would make them too big?

& possibly too frail ?

 

[coomoo]

I haven't looked at any Canadian. Who supplies them?

Constituents will inevitably fall a bit but as long as they make up for it in volume then I'm not too fussed.

Semex supply them take on board there type but would be another option. Be plenty power in your cows I would’ve thought.

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

Any recommendations for a bull to use over Jersey X Friesian heifers?

I'm looking to maintain a 500-550 kg cow, tidy udder and strength throughout for a low input forage based system.

I've got 40 calving to oblique next month. I'll probably use some more oblique but I'm looking to spread my risk a bit.

No help I know, but I've a friend with an Ayrshire bull who's sire was a bull called Pant Wizard, he's not that long in the leg but has tremendous capacity, he'd throw a hell of a cow out of a Jersey or Jersey cross.

 

[BELOWAVERAGE]

Any recommendations for a bull to use over Jersey X Friesian heifers?

I'm looking to maintain a 500-550 kg cow, tidy udder and strength throughout for a low input forage based system.

I've got 40 calving to oblique next month. I'll probably use some more oblique but I'm looking to spread my risk a bit.

No help I know, but I've a friend with an Ayrshire bull who's sire was a bull called Pant Wizard, he's not that long in the leg but has tremendous capacity, he'd throw a hell of a cow out of a Jersey or Jersey cross.

 

[upnortheast]

Pant wizard, born 1971
Sometimes modern genetics aren`t the answer

 

[Homesy]

Viking reds ?

 

[JP1]

Sad reading

https://www.ayrshirescs.org/workspace/pdfs/lessnessock-dairy-sale-120220.pdf

 

[Spudley]

So many good herds selling up ?

 

[coomoo]

Sad reading

https://www.ayrshirescs.org/workspace/pdfs/lessnessock-dairy-sale-120220.pdf

Going down on Wednesday, what’s the reason for dispersal thought they were on a Lactalis contract

 

[TheRanger]

Going down on Wednesday, what’s the reason for dispersal thought they were on a Lactalis contract

Muller direct I think

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