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Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

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    #4832
    RD10
    Registered Users Posts: 531 ✭✭✭RD10


    Anyone got calves from the limousin bull Hellios from bova?
    Have one heifer this year and shes shaping up nicely, easy calved too.


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    #4833
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    The man himself, Highlander;

    So have myself a couple of Highlander straws in a trade off with the AI man. Best on a muscely cow?


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    #4834
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    So have myself a couple of Highlander straws in a trade off with the AI man. Best on a muscely cow?

    Are you getting the Highlander straws? I've never used him...:rolleyes:
    Tanko is the man to answer that.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4835
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Are you getting the Highlander straws? I've never used him...:rolleyes:
    Tanko is the man to answer that.

    I have four, was going to put one on an ere daughter.


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    #4836
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,227 ✭✭✭tanko


    You did well to get them off him, what straws did you have to give him in exchange?

    I’d put him on a medium sized cow with good muscle and decent milk if possible.
    Had a couple of lovely cows of him here.


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    #4837
    Seanhorse91
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Seanhorse91


    Dromaig King (lm4302) bull calf on left. DOB 1st July
    Loyal (lm4184) heifer on right. DOB 13th June.
    Doing well, starting to fill out


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    #4838
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Seanhorse91 wrote: »
    Dromaig King (lm4302) bull calf on left. DOB 1st July
    Loyal (lm4184) heifer on right. DOB 13th June.
    Doing well, starting to fill out

    Nice calves
    Lovely style to the heifer, will you keep her?


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    #4839
    Seanhorse91
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Seanhorse91


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Nice calves
    Lovely style to the heifer, will you keep her?

    Ya definitely. Here’s herself and the mother a few weeks back


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    #4840
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Seanhorse91 wrote: »
    Ya definitely. Here’s herself and the mother a few weeks back

    Nice outfit
    Allot of LM generations there


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    #4841
    SuperTeeJay
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭SuperTeeJay


    Has anyone ever tried or had any success using CWI 90% sexed semen on heifers?


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    #4842
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    SuperTeeJay wrote: »
    Has anyone ever tried or had any success using CWI 90% sexed semen on heifers?

    Used it once on a 2nd calved. Got a heifer. Fine cow


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    #4843
    dodo mommy
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭dodo mommy


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Used it once on a 2nd calved. Got a heifer. Fine cow[/quote
    Any idea how much a sexed straw would be from cwi. I have one cwi cow here she's nothing special to look at but produces one of the best calfs every year without fail, only fault I have with is her feet I wonder is that coming from cwi?


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    #4844
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,227 ✭✭✭tanko


    I’m not certain but i think CWI sexed straws are €40 each.


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    #4845
    SuperTeeJay
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭SuperTeeJay


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Used it once on a 2nd calved. Got a heifer. Fine cow

    I have some nice charolais heifers I might order a few and try a few straws on them.


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    #4846
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Weighed a Fiston bull calf today for a neighbour as part of Beep. 360Kg and still not 6 months. Serious calf. You'd laugh if you saw him at about 6 weeks. He was as wide as he was tall.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4847
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    tanko wrote: »
    I’m not certain but i think CWI sexed straws are €40 each.

    Think it was 70 through the AI man for us.


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    #4848
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    dodo mommy wrote: »
    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Used it once on a 2nd calved. Got a heifer. Fine cow[/quote
    Any idea how much a sexed straw would be from cwi. I have one cwi cow here she's nothing special to look at but produces one of the best calfs every year without fail, only fault I have with is her feet I wonder is that coming from cwi?
    I wouldn't say so.bad Feet always seems to run in cow families here


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    #4849
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,227 ✭✭✭tanko


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Think it was 70 through the AI man for us.

    It might be, i meant 40 yoyos to buy for DIY Ai.


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    #4850
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    See there on icbf you can see heifer eligabity for the bdgp at the marts. Now it's not on the many heifers but it's handy all the same. I've actually stopped buying replacement heifers in the mart and only buy ones I'd see the parents of.


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    #4851
    Neo Sanders
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Neo Sanders


    What's cwi meant to be for calving? People's experience, not the figures...

    I had a heavy pull out of a simx first calver. Bull calf. Big thick head on the calf. Once the head came, the rest wasn't too bad. All OK though..


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    #4852
    ABitofsense
    Registered Users Posts: 662 ✭✭✭ABitofsense


    Anyone use LM4360 AHERLA K7 P? I put him on yesterday as something different other than Knell or Zag and interested to hear if anyone has calves on the ground.


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    #4853
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Neo Sanders wrote: »
    What's cwi meant to be for calving? People's experience, not the figures...

    I had a heavy pull out of a simx first calver. Bull calf. Big thick head on the calf. Once the head came, the rest wasn't too bad. All OK though..

    I've used him twice on mature cows.....no issue calved themselves....would not have thought of him as a bull for maiden heifers..


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    #4854
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,227 ✭✭✭tanko


    Neo Sanders wrote: »
    What's cwi meant to be for calving? People's experience, not the figures...

    I had a heavy pull out of a simx first calver. Bull calf. Big thick head on the calf. Once the head came, the rest wasn't too bad. All OK though..

    I haven’t used him but i wouldn’t be putting a bull like that on heifers either without expecting trouble especially if it’s a bull calf.
    I’d try LM2014 on heifers if you want to put a Lim on them.
    Hard to beat Saler bulls on heifers for trouble free calving imo.


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    #4855
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Neo Sanders wrote: »
    What's cwi meant to be for calving? People's experience, not the figures...

    I had a heavy pull out of a simx first calver. Bull calf. Big thick head on the calf. Once the head came, the rest wasn't too bad. All OK though..

    Used him on 30 months, odd pull, wouldn't be fir tight heifers anyway


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    #4856
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Weighed a Fiston bull calf today for a neighbour as part of Beep. 360Kg and still not 6 months. Serious calf. You'd laugh if you saw him at about 6 weeks. He was as wide as he was tall.

    This bull weighed 390kg yesterday at the mart. He never got a bit of meal, straight off the cow. It's some weight for a Feb calf. Mother is a black whitehead.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4857
    Sugarbowl
    Registered Users Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Sugarbowl


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    This bull weighed 390kg yesterday at the mart. He never got a bit of meal, straight off the cow. It's some weight for a Feb calf. Mother is a black whitehead.

    She must be very milky to be at that weight already. What did he make at the ring?


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    #4858
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Sugarbowl wrote: »
    She must be very milky to be at that weight already. What did he make at the ring?
    €890 I think. Colour went against him. He was greyish.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4859
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    This bull weighed 390kg yesterday at the mart. He never got a bit of meal, straight off the cow. It's some weight for a Feb calf. Mother is a black whitehead.

    Calves are weighing well this year, she’s a good cow
    Sadly as per your later post colour can be an issue


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    #4860
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Calves are weighing well this year, she’s a good cow
    Sadly as per your later post colour can be an issue

    No offence, but she's a sh!t cow if her calf is only worth 890 let alone a ch bull calf


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    #4861
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,709 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    No offence, but she's a sh!t cow if her calf is only worth 890 let alone a ch bull calf

    God, ye must have very high standards. Like I said, he never got meal. She's a handy cow maybe 575kg. I'm sure he could get better prices from cont type cows with less milk, but he'd have to feed more meal to make up the diff in weight. End of day it's about profit not vanity.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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