Agreed - except those by a good bull with a bit of shape. But just imagine how those with Saler, Shorthorn or Hereford crosses feel. And spare a thought for those selling Angus cross heifers.
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Agreed - except those by a good bull with a bit of shape. But just imagine how those with Saler, Shorthorn or Hereford crosses feel. And spare a thought for those selling Angus cross heifers.
Skintagain
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Simmy x are good cows big like but milky, uncle used to put blue on them had some nice big calves at the end of summer.
They are a maternal breed ,I don’t finish cattle but my friends who do tell me there ko% is not as good as the limmy or Charolais.
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At least there's a premium on them.
Northeastfarmer
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I’ve finished a few but I wouldn’t buy any ever again
We milked a few of the first crosses to Friesians years ago and some of them were as good as the Friesians. Maybe going for the milky cows rather than the bull would be better but they don't seem too popular for that for some reason.
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We used too run quite a few Simmental fresian cross sucklers, all too the Limmy then finish the Bulls and heifers went as stores at 10/11 months. Still think they take a lot of beating as a suckler, milky, quiet, plenty of room for calving. Only trouble now is sourcing them. Had too swap to Lims (tendency to be wild) and blues (not enough milk for me) but the quality of calf is just as good, perhaps a shade better
cattleman123
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Not heard a thing got the last ones going Thurs hopefully...no price yet thou hoping for 4.80/5.0...should be up there
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Have decided against and have just been and bought a lim . Will put picture up of him when I get him home .
livestock 1
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There’s a fair few farms up the north east coast have simmy cows to a Charollais bull seem to do ok
livestock 1
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Only thing I can say is you don’t realise how good a limmy bull is until you try something else
Skintagain
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They do throw some nice calves. How many generations can you go with a lim before you lose the milk? My in laws will have been keeping Heifers back to the lim for 20 plus years after having milk cows in the 60’s then into Herefords then onto lims and they are limited by their milking ability. Calves grow a lot in their second Summer at grass after weaning quite small really.
No milk and their nuts, plus riddled with johnes, not my cup of tea, but each to their own
Skintagain
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Nor mine but a lot of people are shawshanked and won’t change.
Been trying to persuade them to hire a simmy bull for a year to produce some heifers to retain.......no luck yet
livestock 1
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Don’t get me wrong I’m not dissing the breed. I have some Simmy cows and like them a lot. I bull them with a limmy. When we buy cows with Simmental heifer calves we often keep the calf to breed of if they are owt like it.
We don’t keep many replacement heifers off our own cows now. I think there’s maybe only half a dozen this time of our own. There isn’t much milk off some of them and one of the bulls we have has breeding that isn’t renowned for breeding milky heifers although I haven’t tried keeping any heifer calves off him as yet. Milk can be deceiving as some look to have little but always rear good calves. Often the ones with little milk seem to throw the best shaped sorts.
I was really stating that Limousins are suited to our land and markets up here. They do as well or better than anything else on our hill land and are in demand at the other end to some degree. A shapely limmy is easier to sell than a big plain one and has had less bait
Skintagain
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If limis as a whole could up the milk across the board and calm them down they would be a force o be reckoned with.
Skintagain
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Anyway we are a bit off topic.
Markets are bleating for spring lambs this week I hope they stay good till end of June as i could have a good lump of mine ready.
Markets are bleating for spring lambs this week I hope they stay good till end of June as i could have a good lump of mine ready.
Northeastfarmer
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I wouldn’t say that was true, depends how they are handled, plenty of Limousin cattle are as quiet as lambs and enjoy a scratch.
No milk is mainly the pures, I wouldn’t want pure cows and as for johnes a lot are screening for it now
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Reason I just bought another simmy bull
