Beef Shorthorn x Limousin?

[RC1019]

Any opinions on this cross, considering BSH heifers to try to the Lim Bull, for a harder cow than BB cross.

 

[Top Tip.]

Any opinions on this cross, considering BSH heifers to try to the Lim Bull, for a harder cow than BB cross.

A very good x make great cows and can put them to any bull.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

@JSmith one for you here

 

[JSmith]

Great cows, ours live out all year and the calves all come a consistent red put back to a lim! I would just make sure that you use an easy calving bull on the first x heifers for atleast the first calving, I’ve just had some bad luck calving a bunch of heifers to a new bull that’s been throwing MASSIVE calves!! Not something I’ve had previous problems with and the bull won’t be getting a second chance

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Great cows, ours live out all year and the calves all come a consistent red put back to a lim! I would just make sure that you use an easy calving bull on the first x heifers for atleast the first calving, I’ve just had some bad luck calving a bunch of heifers to a new bull that’s been throwing MASSIVE calves!! Not something I’ve had previous problems with and the bull won’t be getting a second chance

Do you breed your own heifers?

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Any opinions on this cross, considering BSH heifers to try to the Lim Bull, for a harder cow than BB cross.

Got some, very good long lived cows, would get more if I came across them

 

[Limcrazy]

Greenmount college do that cross on their hill farm iirc they had some bother with calving to do with the genotypes and the shorthorn carrying the gene that caused big calves with the same gene in limousins. Needed a double F94L bull to be safe.

 

[RC1019]

Great cows, ours live out all year and the calves all come a consistent red put back to a lim! I would just make sure that you use an easy calving bull on the first x heifers for atleast the first calving, I’ve just had some bad luck calving a bunch of heifers to a new bull that’s been throwing MASSIVE calves!! Not something I’ve had previous problems with and the bull won’t be getting a second chance

How do you find the steers from the initial cross are to sell? Or is the best part really the heifers to make replacement cows?

 

[cheviot53]

Had some and they were wild and dangerous and passed this onto their calves , only one left and will be glad when its gone , and from more than one sire , now have shorthorn x simmental quieter and more milk

 

[RC1019]

Had some and they were wild and dangerous and passed this onto their calves , only one left and will be glad when its gone , and from more than one sire , now have shorthorn x simmental quieter and more milk

Idea really was to sell the calves in the store rather than keeping for cows

 

[Top Tip.]

Had some and they were wild and dangerous and passed this onto their calves , only one left and will be glad when its gone , and from more than one sire , now have shorthorn x simmental quieter and more milk

I couldn’t say that, I’ve had quite a few over the years and there’s only one that had temperament issues and that was only at calving. I do prefer the simmy x shorthorn as well.

 

[JSmith]

How do you find the steers from the initial cross are to sell? Or is the best part really the heifers to make replacement cows?

No problem, they just come like lims

 

[JSmith]

I’ve got sim cross aswell and get on well with them too, put back to a lim, all my cows started off as shorthorns and stayed that way for many years and then we started losing quite a few to TB and so started keeping more of the lim cross back to bull, could do with getting another shorthorn bull really or I’ll be going too continental for my out door system! When there taking ten to twenty five cows a time off you, you can soon run short on cows

 

[Hesstondriver]

If you did it the other way round lim cows , SH bull you’d get the names native sire premium