Buying Stock Bulls

[west coast angus]

north east scotland is awash with simmentals, go to a breeding sale at Thainstone, you'll see little else
I've got some nice Baz/Whitebred cross heifers, don't know what to do with them.

Bull them with a simmental, you will get some great replacements out of them, and if you want to sell them then you will also be in the club, and folk will pay good money for the simmental x calfs!! the place is awash with simmentals because they are the ultimate suckler cows for that type of ground!!

 

[Happy]

but what about the other two?

Think someone on here has/had one of them.
Looks a hell of a bull that. If anything maybe too big given move to 380kg carcase weights.
Maybe top, middle and bottom needs reevaluating

 

[Henarar]

Bull them with a simmental, you will get some great replacements out of them, and if you want to sell them then you will also be in the club, and folk will pay good money for the simmental x calfs!! the place is awash with simmentals because they are the ultimate suckler cows for that type of ground!!

thought you would be an Angus fan with a name like that

 

[M-J-G]

Think someone on here has/had one of them.
Looks a hell of a bull that. If anything maybe too big given move to 380kg carcase weights.
Maybe top, middle and bottom needs reevaluating

A few on here will know that men who own him have no problem with carcase weights, and would quickly print out a list to show you that they hit targets pretty well.

They are exceptionally good farmers.

 

[west coast angus]

thought you would be an Angus fan with a name like that

got both!

 

[Henarar]

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He's turned out a pretty darned OK looking bull in my opinion.

Have you seen him lately martin ? I wouldn't like to comment from the photo, some on here who have seen the animal like to criticize opinion from those that have only the photo to go on

 

[M-J-G]

Have you seen him lately martin ? I wouldn't like to comment from the photo, some on here who have seen the animal like to criticize opinion from those that have only the photo to go on

Yeah, he is local to me.

 

[Henarar]

Yeah, he is local to me.

I will have to agree with you then base on your superior knowledge having seen the bull
I wonder what the other two look like now

 

[M-J-G]

I will have to agree with you then base on your superior knowledge having seen the bull
I wonder what the other two look like now

The only pic I've seen of Comber since he was sold, kinda what I expected.

 

[Henarar]

The only pic I've seen of Comber since he was sold, kinda what I expected.
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You can tell from the pic Wow
or have you seen him

 

[joe soapy]

I've got a cheap one here (replacement for the one I mentioned earlier). I needed a bull in a hurry and he was available. £1500 out of killerton Travis (genus lim). He looks pretty poor and we are not sure if he is entirely trust worthy, but if he produces some good calves (he went to some v good cows) then he will be worth it.
Last year I bought ten lim heifers from IOM and put them to bull. As my other two bulls were with cows all ready and I wanted heifers inside to get used to us, I put a bull out of our fat pen to them (7/8 lim). I have to say the calves look tremendous (we weaned them last month).

That was the beauty of doing barley bulls, always 1 or 2 outstanding bulls in the pen,
provided the feet havent blown they will make the transition from kill pen to stock bull without a hitch

 

[Henarar]

That was the beauty of doing barley bulls, always 1 or 2 outstanding bulls in the pen,
provided the feet havent blown they will make the transition from kill pen to stock bull without a hitch

A slaughter man told me that you can tell the cattle that have been fed on lots of barley as their guts are full of ulcers, I am not sure if that is true but I wouldn't think it would be good for a breeding animal if it was

 

[M-J-G]

You can tell from the pic Wow
or have you seen him

From seeing him in the flesh, I didn't expect to see a picture that impressed me.

 

[nails]

This is our senior stockbull, doing very well.

 

[Henarar]

This is our senior stockbull, doing very well.
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warm day ?

 

[nails]

You will find your balls hang down as you get older.

 

[Henarar]

You will find your balls hang down as you get older.

bloody nuisance, never been any good to me anyway

 

[CharcoalWally]

Always good to see a decent sized set of knackers for bull fertility. That's how a senior bull should look.

Nice lengthy , fleshy boy @nails , how's he bred?

 

[eyeball41]

Some team Celtic daughters
Good looking cows

 

[nails]

warm day ?

Always good to see a decent sized set of knackers for bull fertility. That's how a senior bull should look.

Nice lengthy , fleshy boy @nails , how's he bred?

He is Dinton Beano By Cairnview Snazzy. Bought him privately and he has thrown some good cattle and have sold a lot of good stock by him.