Bazadasie

Frank-the-Wool

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I have bought the occasional Bazadaise cross but have found the steers hard to finish on a grazing system. Heifers might be better but I think like most continental stock they need hard feeding to get them finished.
For us simple folk down south what is a Whitebred animal? Presume it is some sort of Shorthorn but stand to be corrected!
 

unlacedgecko

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I have bought the occasional Bazadaise cross but have found the steers hard to finish on a grazing system. Heifers might be better but I think like most continental stock they need hard feeding to get them finished.
For us simple folk down south what is a Whitebred animal? Presume it is some sort of Shorthorn but stand to be corrected!

 

crofteress

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baby calve and other black and coloured are out of blue lim cows, red heifer is out of a luing cow, . All by the basadaise bull, have had 4 crops now , these calves coming in for clipping next week and going as weaned calves in 2 weeks, usually do well enough for me and weigh /grow very well. Temperaments great

Hilly go to UA Huntly website theres a man selling up a load of basadaise/ blue /lim mix cows he's sold his farm so genuine dispersal, its on the 12th [ 2 days away] pictures on the UA website
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crofteress

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they went to a dispersal . Theres a dispersal of baz and baz x cows on the 12th at UA Huntly.Not registered but have been there and some good cows. Heifers also
 

crofteress

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I was meaning the Gascoigne went to a dispersal, saw them entered anyway, at a breeding sale at Dingwall, it did say dispersal. Cant remember when maybe last year. The baz I mentioned as if he was after some they will be at UA huntly in a couple of days
 

Hilly

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I was meaning the Gascoigne went to a dispersal, saw them entered anyway, at a breeding sale at Dingwall, it did say dispersal. Cant remember when maybe last year. The baz I mentioned as if he was after some they will be at UA huntly in a couple of days
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Shame I can’t make the sale , bugger
 

crofteress

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the pictures are on the UA Facebook page, scroll down a fair bit, even if you can't go it gives you an idea of what these cows produce to a blue or a lim bull. Some really good calves in the pictures. Want to go myself but same as you can't get as its a Saturday
 

Roy_H

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They seem to be amongst a collection of minority (in the UK anyway) continental breeds like Aubrac, Piedmontese, Parthenaise, that never took off.

They can't all be popular I suppose.
We were reliably informed by the bumpf that we got from Genus that the Piedmontese was THE most popular beef sire for use on dairy cows in The Netherlands. We tried some on our suckler cows, using straws from The very first 3 bulls that were brought in by them. I can even remember their names "Nodo" "Niente" and "Negus ( How sad am I? ) The resultant crosses were good looking cattle yes, not always the easiest to handle (We kept one particular heifer back for breeding, she was out of our kindly dear old Jersey house cow and after she herself calved she almost killed my uncle when he went near her new calf.She was a maniac! ) and definitely the very first ones to go and huddle under the hedge if the temperature dropped a bit. Calving ease? some dead easy some absolute monsters. We soon went off them.
 

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