Perfect Suckler cow??

[Shann_mann]

Over the next few weeks we are expanding are suckler herd and reducing the sheep numbers. We make are suckler cows out of the beef calves born off are dairy cows. At the minute we run alot of Lims and Charollais. With the plan to bull therm with a Bazidaise, Charollais or Blond. I’m after a cow that will wean a calf as close to 50% of her weight as possible. The thinking is to use 1 of the following breeds to get the cows:
Charollais
Saler
Stabilizer
Angus
Lincoln Red
Longhorn
What would people use? The ground isn’t the best that why I’d use more native and lims don’t really work up in these fields. The image isn’t the best but sort of show the area and ground they’ll be in.

 

[JSmith]

Beef shorthorn cow, very hardy, live on very little, good millers, great mothers, put a lim on them and get a red lim coloured calf! Ideal

 

[JSmith]

 

[M-J-G]

Definitely not Charolais for a cow anyway, particularly if you're on poor land.

 

[serf]

 

[Chae1]

@unlacedgecko

 

[dinderleat]

Dairy cow

 

[Ysgythan]

Longhorn

 

[unlacedgecko]

@unlacedgecko

Thanks for the tag.

@Shann_mann it doesn't really matter what breed you pick. Find a breeder with small frame cows who runs a ruthless culling system on land as hard or harder than yours. Then buy stock from them.

 

[choochter]

Beef shorthorn cow, very hardy, live on very little, good millers, great mothers, put a lim on them and get a red lim coloured calf! Ideal

put a Baz on them, get a red calf also

 

[JP1]

You got there before me !!

 

[Henarar]

The thinking is to use 1 of the following breeds to get the cows:
Charollais
Saler
Stabilizer
Angus
Lincoln Red
Longhorn
What would people use? The ground isn’t the best that why I’d use more native and lims don’t really work up in these fields. The image isn’t the best but sort of show the area and ground they’ll be in

On what looks like some quite hard land I would think Lincoln red from that list.

 

[case44]

In the Barrens!

 

[Chae1]

There's another thread already running might help you.

 

[M-J-G]

There's another thread already running might help you.

I think there will have been about a hundred of them over that last decade

 

[Chae1]

Suckler breeding cow trade?

What would trade be like for proper beef bred suckler cows be either with calf at foot or in calf heifer . Angus’s spring Calvers. I might need 10

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Chae1]

I think there will have been about a hundred of them over that last decade

To be honest I don't know if there is such a thing!

I know farmers that chop and change breeds all the time, sheep and cattle. Never settle on one.

I think they are the problem and not the cattle.

 

[Optimus]

To be honest I don't know if there is such a thing!

I know farmers that chop and change breeds all the time, sheep and cattle. Never settle on one.

I think they are the problem and not the cattle.

Variety is the spice of life an all that

 

[Chae1]

Variety is the spice of life an all that

Yeah, we've went into Simmentals. Bought a few breeding heifers this year.

They and there calves will look nice on the farm road. Money isn't everything.

 

[sheepwise]

Over the next few weeks we are expanding are suckler herd and reducing the sheep numbers. We make are suckler cows out of the beef calves born off are dairy cows. At the minute we run alot of Lims and Charollais. With the plan to bull therm with a Bazidaise, Charollais or Blond. I’m after a cow that will wean a calf as close to 50% of her weight as possible. The thinking is to use 1 of the following breeds to get the cows:
Charollais
Saler
Stabilizer
Angus
Lincoln Red
Longhorn
What would people use? The ground isn’t the best that why I’d use more native and lims don’t really work up in these fields. The image isn’t the best but sort of show the area and ground they’ll be in.

Sim/luing cow, Charolais bull, simples.