salers

adne

I bought a bull weanling (280 kgs) at a mart the weekend, i thought the animal was a lim but turns out its a saler.....

whats yer thought on them, it looks like the type of animal that can carry a lot of weight... my plan is to finish him

Casinoking

The best commercial cattle I saw at the ploughing match were Salers crossed with Charolais, they were serious looking animals for carrying weight. The weight gain figures looked impressive too, I was strongly thinking of going down that route myself.

pakalasa

Ya a neighbour of mine had a Charolais running with purebred salers. The weanlings very exceptional. I saw him getting over €850 average for the bulls. They were still under a year old and weighed obout 430Kg. They were on meal ab-lib.

Still I used the NCBC saler bull Rio last year for easy calving. The 2 weanlings I have are very poor, maybe they will grow away though. Both cows were lacking in milk.

aghead

Unrivalled calving ease 97% percent unassisted compared to angus 93%, a pelvic capacity of 12% greater than any other continental breed, amoungst highiest docility figures in france. We're killing full blood saler bulls for the kk italien kepak scheme under 24 months, with over 75% u grading, between 450-520 kgs carcase weights, in fact "too heavy" for such scheme. although i'm not a fan of the said bull "rio", but search volcan FR6340864030 in icbf database and your misconceptions of saler carcase traits will be addressed.

major fan of the culard charo/saler cross also

irish_bob

aghead wrote: »

Unrivalled calving ease 97% percent unassisted compared to angus 93%, a pelvic capacity of 12% greater than any other continental breed, amoungst highiest docility figures in france. We're killing full blood saler bulls for the kk italien kepak scheme under 24 months, with over 75% u grading, between 450-520 kgs carcase weights, in fact "too heavy" for such scheme. although i'm not a fan of the said bull "rio", but search volcan FR6340864030 in icbf database and your misconceptions of saler carcase traits will be addressed.

major fan of the culard charo/saler cross also

highest docility figures :eek: , salers are mad yokes who make limousins look like lambs

aghead

irish_bob wrote: »

highest docility figures :eek: , salers are mad yokes who make limousins look like lambs

ya havn't a clue, i may refer you to john shirley's article in the farming independant last week, where he discuss's the low level of intelligence of stockmen like yourself with regards to salers, and credit to the limmousin society for correcting the docility issues of the breed

leg wax

irish_bob wrote: »

highest docility figures :eek: , salers are mad yokes who make limousins look like lambs

saw salers in carnew mart yesterday and they were mad you could not go in the pen with them.;)

aghead

Charolais weanling nearly killed my mate in elphin mart a fortnight ago those white stock must be nuts ;-)

irish_bob

aghead wrote: »

ya havn't a clue, i may refer you to john shirley's article in the farming independant last week, where he discuss's the low level of intelligence of stockmen like yourself with regards to salers, and credit to the limmousin society for correcting the docility issues of the breed

ah well if john shirley said so , it must be true :rolleyes:

as i said in another thread , some people are just too thin skinned when it comes to other people offering opinion

djmc

I had some very mad cattle a few years back and I know someone who had salers that you could walk up to out in the field and rub and pet.
Now my cattle are quite as I changed the way I reared them they follow me instead of me following them.
As I am now farming by myself with no help this is the best way to have them
I have fed calves milk and nuts in field to get them running up to me when they are older I keep a few old dry dairy cows with them and call them to follow me when moving them.
I also sold the wild cattle I had as these would never calm down and would upset the herd.
I think even if you can have 1 or 2 pets that will eat nuts out of a bucket while holding the bucket then they will follow you and the rest will follow them
I now think the way cattle are reared is more to do with them being mad than the breed and the more human contact they have the better