Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

patsy_mccabe

Sheep breeder wrote: »

Good to know that, have them in the tank and used none yet and have a cow to bull and was going to use him, it be fieldstone alfy now.

I realised since, one heifer I did recently looks like she held.

patsy_mccabe

dodo mommy wrote: »

I don't have any hellios calfs but I have an excel Calf the same way she will always come over and start licking my trouser when in herding. She is a definite keeper to she has a great back end on her and mammy has milk.

Have you many Excel calves on the ground? What do you think of them?

dodo mommy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Have you many Excel calves on the ground? What do you think of them?

Just two April born heifer calfs very pleased with them easy calfed and shaping up well. I will definitely use him again.

patsy_mccabe

dodo mommy wrote: »

Just two April born heifer calfs very pleased with them easy calfed and shaping up well. I will definitely use him again.

I've 2 cows due to him in the next few months. Fingers crossed.

dodo mommy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I've 2 cows due to him in the next few months. Fingers crossed.

These are the two excel calfs first one born the first week of April. The second one born the second week of April.

dodo mommy

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I've 2 cows due to him in the next few months. Fingers crossed.

These are the two excel calfs first one born the first week of April. The second one born the second week of April.

dodo mommy

dodo mommy wrote: »

These are the two excel calfs first one born the first week of April. The second one born the second week of April.

The second calf should be their now.

tanko

dodo mommy wrote: »

These are the two excel calfs first one born the first week of April. The second one born the second week of April.

Lovely calf, she’ll make a powerful heifer.

Can you try putting up the other one again?

dodo mommy

tanko wrote: »

Lovely calf, she’ll make a powerful heifer.

Can you try putting up the other one again?

Trying to put up picture but it's just not happening for me .

patsy_mccabe

dodo mommy wrote: »

Trying to put up picture but it's just not happening for me .

File size might be too big. Open with MS paint and save again as JPEG format. That reduces size.

dodo mommy

tanko wrote: »

Lovely calf, she’ll make a powerful heifer.

Can you try putting up the other one again?

Y

dodo mommy

dodo mommy wrote: »

Y

Here we go

tanko

Very nice, were they big calves at birth?

dodo mommy

No calfed unassisted, picture of second calf doesn't do her justice at all.

Hard Knocks

What’s the verdict on GKA
Have been impressed by some calves I saw off him

sonnybill

Hard Knocks wrote: »

What’s the verdict on GKA
Have been impressed by some calves I saw off him

I had good GKA weanlings, a quality bull

sonnybill

GKA bull out of a b/w/h Lm x cow

Lady Haywire

All AI'ed here now, bar the last two calved, one of which is going as she's a Queen bitch. So bar repeats or breaks it's gone well.
Lim bulls used-
- One of our own breeding off Loyal/ERE dam on two cows.
- On-Dit (used in conjunction with another straw)
- LM2014- Ewandale Ivor.
- LM4302- Dromanig King
- KZH- Kilskeagh Hill 16
- CWI- Castleview Casino.
- LM2206- Elite Ice Cream.

Blues-
-BB2247, OOT & will be using Imperial D'lecluse on the last calver.

CH-
- CH4491- Scardaune Mark.
- CH4491- Bud Orpheus.

BA- Glacon.

The Real Elmer Fudd

Have you used Bb2247 before? What’s your thoughts on him. I have used him this year in a few 2nd and 3rd calvers

Lady Haywire wrote: »

All AI'ed here now, bar the last two calved, one of which is going as she's a Queen bitch. So bar repeats or breaks it's gone well.
Lim bulls used-
- One of our own breeding off Loyal/ERE dam on two cows.
- On-Dit (used in conjunction with another straw)
- LM2014- Ewandale Ivor.
- LM4302- Dromanig King
- KZH- Kilskeagh Hill 16
- CWI- Castleview Casino.
- LM2206- Elite Ice Cream.

Blues-
-BB2247, OOT & will be using Imperial D'lecluse on the last calver.

CH-
- CH4491- Scardaune Mark.
- CH4491- Bud Orpheus.

BA- Glacon.

Lady Haywire

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

Have you used Bb2247 before? What’s your thoughts on him. I have used him this year in a few 2nd and 3rd calvers

Never used him before but seen AJY is the Dam's sire. He's by Empire so good breeding in her.
There's sim breeding behind both cows I've put him on so might bring the roan too. Both bred good blues before& are 3rd calvers this year, thought him worth a shot!

The Real Elmer Fudd

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Never used him before but seen AJY is the Dam's sire. He's by Empire so good breeding in her.
There's sim breeding behind both cows I've put him on so might bring the roan too. Both bred good blues before& are 3rd calvers this year, thought him worth a shot!

Thanks. Mine all have lm and sim breeding in them as well so also hoping that red factor will bring the roan colour that is selling well. Most of them are lm2014, eby and curaheen gunshot.

Lady Haywire

The Real Elmer Fudd wrote: »

Thanks. Mine all have lm and sim breeding in them as well so also hoping that red factor will bring the roan colour that is selling well. Most of them are lm2014, eby and curaheen gunshot.

EBY should bring the roan anyway if it's in the bull!

My two are KJB out of a cow who is Sim/Bova Pontium (great old bull!) and our only white cow, who's out of a Navarin cow going back to sim/sh.
Time will tell I guess.

I used the Elite Ice Cream on a heifer. Not sure how wise that was but too late now to regret it :pac:

sonnybill

Lady Haywire wrote: »

EBY should bring the roan anyway if it's in the bull!

My two are KJB out of a cow who is Sim/Bova Pontium (great old bull!) and our only white cow, who's out of a Navarin cow going back to sim/sh.
Time will tell I guess.

I used the Elite Ice Cream on a heifer. Not sure how wise that was but too late now to regret it :pac:

Jees I wouldn’t have ice cream down as easy calving

I had jacking on this buck !

Lady Haywire

sonnybill wrote: »

Jees I wouldn’t have ice cream down as easy calving

I had jacking on this buck !

No pull no prize!

Ah she's got a great line of calving behind her, hope she takes after them. Will have her & the BB heifer on their own for at least 6 weeks before calving on a diet. I'll worry about her when I have to

Baalbec10

13 out of the 16 cows here held, will know about two more this week only leaving the last calved cow who we ai,d Thursday. All going well 100% in 6 weeks.
Mixture of bulls used
Lm2014, ewdenvlae ivor
Sa4059 beguin
Fiston
Gazou
Gstaad
Jaegerbomb
Hashtag
Bivouac
Tomschoice jet
Doncombe aga khan
No shortage of bulls used but that's what ai is there for

390kid

Baalbec10 wrote: »

13 out of the 16 cows here held, will know about two more this week only leaving the last calved cow who we ai,d Thursday. All going well 100% in 6 weeks.
Mixture of bulls used
Lm2014, ewdenvlae ivor
Sa4059 beguin
Fiston
Gazou
Gstaad
Jaegerbomb
Hashtag
Bivouac
Tomschoice jet
Doncombe aga khan
No shortage of bulls used but that's what ai is there for

Do you do your own Ai or have you a technician? Should leave you with a nice interesting bunch of calves

patsy_mccabe

I've recently used or plan to use;
Gamin
Excel
Bavardage
IX gene Ireland
Zag
Claragh Neymar
Lodge hamlet
On Dit

Baalbec10

390kid wrote: »

Do you do your own Ai or have you a technician? Should leave you with a nice interesting bunch of calves

Use an ai technician from munster ai. They should be very interesting, plenty of interesting mixes, cows all 5 stars so will be selling replacements from next year on, will keep ye posted

rushvalley

2021 calves here will be a mix of
CH5932
CWI
LM4908
EBY
LSP
LM5443
LM2014

DukeCaboom

What are LM2014 like as replacements?