Is using a blue on heifers not a bit risky anyway?
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Blues on jersey crosses
- Thread starter Devon lad
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Sorry friesen on a heifer, kojak was just the photos, I would never use a blue on a heifer and not even on a 2nd calver
Well you are either using the wrong blue bulls or you should get some cows that are capable of calving more than a rat, which is it ?
Interesting attitude
Thought, why not stir the pot a little and see what gives
harrysmith
Member
been using moorsley logic on jersey cows and heifers , calves just dropped out, plus nice white and blue colour , one heifer calf made £275 at 4 weeks!
- Location
- Shropshire
I’ve used logic a lot very good bull that’s the bull I was using when they swapped in lynx and kojak
Who supplied that semen?
- Location
- Shropshire
Genus
- Location
- somerset
we will stick to easy calving bulls, AA, and doric BB, for beef, the risk of buggering up a cow, for us outweighs the extra calf value, just had 7 hfr jersey hfr calves, out of 9 hfrs calved, the other 2 were easy calving hol, and bulls, Pulled 1 big hol out of a jer 3rd calver, everything else just flopped out, lovely.
- Location
- Shropshire
All our logic calves came out lovely not very big but take decent shape by the time there 3 weeks old
Used easy in the past and was told by the rep his son kojak would be fine, the problem with beef bulls there only around for couple of years before you can’t get them and it’s not like the uk farmers stick together like the NZ ones, if LIC had a duff bull NZ farmers would let the semen company know about it and the bull would be gone, I’m looking at Irish DBI but only familiar with the Herefords
Some bulls are around for a lot longer than that.
I would say ask @cattle genie but it don't look like he comes on here now, anyway he seems to have the same bulls for years
dairydurham
Member
Moorsley Anderson was around for years ,we had no probs using on second calvers at all. Great alround bull
I would sooner sniff Susanne Boyles spanks than AI and blue onto a Jersey X
Why? Whats the issue?
The issue is the BB is a double muscle breed solely breed for Beef, to me way to risky on such a small frame animal as they can throw out big calves and seen it more times I can remember...square peg, round hole scenario
Cows 'n grass
Member
- Location
- Modbury, South Devon
I've calved 100 blues out of Jersey and jersey x cows in the past fortnight and I've pulled one.