Most PROFITABLE suckler cow breed!!!

[livestock 1]

Nutters to work with, though.

Our stores are a lot quieter since switching to Simmy bulls

Yes mine are tasty like that. Would the simmy perform as well on bad ground?

 

[livestock 1]

This is a very good question as I am trying to work out if some hairy hill cows would pay better for me

 

[Top Tip.]

My favourite!

 

[Nithsdale]

Yes mine are tasty like that. Would the simmy perform as well on bad ground?

We are upland/hill and get on fine with them. Hill is white and bracken, inbye grazing is all very old PP on shallow soil

 

[livestock 1]

We are upland/hill and get on fine with them. Hill is white and bracken, inbye grazing is all very old PP on shallow soil

The store buyers are getting picky at the moment. They need shape or else

 

[livestock 1]

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She’s done him well

 

[Bossfarmer]

Hardier

For outwintering?

 

[Bossfarmer]

The Saler will be the best but not a lot in it,it is as much to do with the individual cow as the breed. My heaviest calf at the moment will be out of an AA x Luing cow which I bought as a buller just because I liked the look of her.

What do you make of simmental as a breed?

 

[Bossfarmer]

View attachment 802674 View attachment 802674My favourite!

Impressive is that a charolais out of a lim? Age?

 

[Bossfarmer]

I'd say there's more going out of Beef

Is the main problem with dairy cattle not the cost and availability of labour? From what ive seen most milk contracts will only be 1 or 2ppl over cop, which is £100-200/ head profit per cow at 10,000l, a suckler cow can achieve that if its good?

 

[michael N123]

The breeds irrelevant its how you farm it

 

[davieh3350]

Where's highlanders on your list

 

[davieh3350]

The breeds irrelevant its how you farm it

It's how you sell it.

 

[Bossfarmer]

It's how you sell it.

Calving ease and growth rates from milk are surely the main criteria, cow size too

 

[davieh3350]

Calving ease and growth rates from milk are surely the main criteria, cow size too

Very rarely calved a highlander (lim bull) not massive amounts of milk but good quality.

 

[egbert]

........there's a profitable suckler cow?

 

[roscoe erf]

must be school holidays again

 

[Top Tip.]

Impressive is that a charolais out of a lim? Age?

He was 8 months of age,that was taken a couple of days before he was sold,the mother is a limmy x Shorthorn .

 

[DRC]

A Dexter, with its offspring boxed up and sold direct

 

[Top Tip.]

What do you make of simmental as a breed?

I like a touch of Simmental in the cows,good for milk and growth,on this farm I find if they get too pure they cost more to keep.