What breed to put on passport?

[Spudley]

We kept a crossbred bull last year, a Hereford cross British freisian, and I'm not sure what to put on the calves passports. The first few looked liked Herefords so I put them down as Hereford crosses but we had twins tonight from a jersey X British freisian cow, and they are black and white with black faces. I can't say they're Hereford crosses so what do I put them down as? BFX? Crossbred dairy? or do I boil the kettle and spend the morning on hold to BCMS?

 

[jimmer]

Simple calculation
Looks ÷ financial gain = most suitable breed

 

[jimmer]

Oh and don't forget the name of the sire of the sire on the passport

 

[som farmer]

with a xbred herd, and using xbred bulls, it can be quite amusing to see what comes out, had a few with white line down their backs ( longhorn, gloscester ?) where that came from...but the calves, although lively are worth b all, we just use breed code CB or BFX ,the one we try and avoid is JX, that just says the calf is shite !
But, on a serious note, we have to find an answer to dairy bull calves, sexed semen will reduce the number, but that will inflict on the market, a large number of poorly bred beef calves, which will not be a lot better than the better end of dairyx bull calves, and, as we know, the beef price at the moment is shite as well, mainly due to oversupply of ….beef ! so pretty well back to where we started !!!!!!
Perhaps we ought to have a thread on ideas for 1,000's of shite calves we currently produce.

 

[Spudley]

They're heifers. I have registered them as cross bred dairy.

 

[The Agrarian]

with a xbred herd, and using xbred bulls, it can be quite amusing to see what comes out, had a few with white line down their backs ( longhorn, gloscester ?) where that came from...but the calves, although lively are worth b all, we just use breed code CB or BFX ,the one we try and avoid is JX, that just says the calf is shite !
But, on a serious note, we have to find an answer to dairy bull calves, sexed semen will reduce the number, but that will inflict on the market, a large number of poorly bred beef calves, which will not be a lot better than the better end of dairyx bull calves, and, as we know, the beef price at the moment is shite as well, mainly due to oversupply of ….beef ! so pretty well back to where we started !!!!!!
Perhaps we ought to have a thread on ideas for 1,000's of shite calves we currently produce.

Fleckvieh?

 

[Monty]

Are you keeping them for replacements? They look like nice dairy calves

 

[Spudley]

The children want to keep them too! But no, I will be selling them as we don't rear heifers this time of year.

 

[multi power]

with a xbred herd, and using xbred bulls, it can be quite amusing to see what comes out, had a few with white line down their backs ( longhorn, gloscester ?) where that came from...but the calves, although lively are worth b all, we just use breed code CB or BFX ,the one we try and avoid is JX, that just says the calf is shite !
But, on a serious note, we have to find an answer to dairy bull calves, sexed semen will reduce the number, but that will inflict on the market, a large number of poorly bred beef calves, which will not be a lot better than the better end of dairyx bull calves, and, as we know, the beef price at the moment is shite as well, mainly due to oversupply of ….beef ! so pretty well back to where we started !!!!!!
Perhaps we ought to have a thread on ideas for 1,000's of shite calves we currently produce.

Avoiding jersey and going back to British Friesian would go a long way to solving the problems

 

[AGN76]

Are you keeping them for replacements? They look like nice dairy calves

Was gonna say, milk them then the passport don't really matter.