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Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

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    #1112
    GiantPencil
    Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭GiantPencil


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Came across these guys on the 2016 Limousin Journal;


    They have a few bulls. Quality seems good.
    Jeez, Cloughhead Lord (Limousin) straws are €350 each.

    Some CF52 and EZN straws there too....thought they were all gone!


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    #1113
    Farrell
    Registered Users Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    GiantPencil wrote: »
    Some CF52 and EZN straws there too....thought they were all gone!

    Be worth keeping, especially if an AI company could store them.
    Allot of 52 bulls around at the moment


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    #1114
    GiantPencil
    Registered Users Posts: 330 ✭✭GiantPencil


    Farrell wrote: »
    Be worth keeping, especially if an AI company could store them.
    Allot of 52 bulls around at the moment

    Agree, I'd store them for as long as is possible until those bulls have pretty much stopped producing progeny - a CF52 or EZN bull in a few years would be in good demand no doubt


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    #1115
    Canaryblue
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭Canaryblue


    By any chance does anyone have any calves by the Gene Ireland bull Dereskit Improver (PDR)? Have two heifers in calf to him


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    #1116
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Went a bit mad and used Queenshead Altea on a cow, €70 for a first serve :o :eek:


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    #1117
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Kovu wrote: »
    Went a bit mad and used Queenshead Altea on a cow, €70 for a first serve :o :eek:

    Purebred cow?


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    #1118
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Purebred cow?

    Yep, a 7yr old, breeding nicely and she's well nailed together so hope she'll hold first time as it's €40 repeat. Was watching her this morning round 2am trying to reverse into a weanling bull in the pen. :D


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    #1119
    Bullocks
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    Kovu wrote: »
    Went a bit mad and used Queenshead Altea on a cow, €70 for a first serve :o :eek:

    Looks good , hope she holds for you


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    #1120
    Kovu
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Looks good , hope she holds for you

    So does my wallet :pac:


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    #1121
    Sheep breeder
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    seen a couple of very nice altea calves on my travels.


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    #1122
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,739 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    He breeds lovely heifers. Very feminine and classy.

    '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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    #1123
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Nice to hear he's producing the goods anyway! :D


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    #1124
    dodo mommy
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭dodo mommy


    Kovu wrote:
    Went a bit mad and used

    Kovu wrote:
    on a cow, €70 for a first serve


    Have you ever used ampertaine foreman he looks like a cracker as well.


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    #1125
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭tanko


    Has anyone ever kept heifers off FL21 for breeding? Have a couple of his calves this year. Have had a few off him over the years but never kept any, the docility of them is usually pretty bad. Milk figure for him isn't great but daughters calving difficulty is very low.


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    #1126
    Bigbird1
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Bigbird1


    tanko wrote: »
    Has anyone ever kept heifers off FL21 for breeding? Have a couple of his calves this year. Have had a few off him over the years but never kept any, the docility of them is usually pretty bad. Milk figure for him isn't great but daughters calving difficulty is very low.

    Had one bull calf by him here. Kept for a bullock killed 510 at 29 months, graded R+.Very big and growthy. Great width and pelvis. I was trying for a heifer didnt use him again because i felt cows by him would be too big and heavy.


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    #1127
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,739 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Same here. I think I've had 3 bulls from him, no heifers. Ideal cross on small cows to add frame and big square hips. Serious growth, the best I've ever seen from a limousin bull. Over 400kgs at 9 or so months.

    '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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    #1128
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Is he still available? I see pg have added the abs Bulls to their online catelogue. Fieldson alfy at €60. Her in doors will murder me if I buy any more straws though!!!


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    #1129
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭tanko


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Same here. I think I've had 3 bulls from him, no heifers. Ideal cross on small cows to add frame and big square hips. Serious growth, the best I've ever seen from a limousin bull. Over 400kgs at 9 or so months.

    Yeah, good growthy cattle but FZF is the best i ever used from that point of view.


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    #1130
    Seaba
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Seaba


    tanko wrote: »
    Has anyone ever kept heifers off FL21 for breeding? Have a couple of his calves this year. Have had a few off him over the years but never kept any, the docility of them is usually pretty bad. Milk figure for him isn't great but daughters calving difficulty is very low.

    I especially picked FL21 out for a lovely quiet cow with a nice bag of milk that we had . Got a heifer - delighted! Turned out to be one of the wildest/dangerous animals we ever had - was so disappointed. We killed her as heifer - U3 - beautiful animal but cracked.


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    #1131
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,739 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Sickner when that happens.

    '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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    #1132
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭High bike


    Anyone any experience of Saler LZR on Munster ai catalogue,nice looking bull and plenty stars behind him


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    #1133
    tanko
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    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Is he still available? I see pg have added the abs Bulls to their online catelogue. Fieldson alfy at €60. Her in doors will murder me if I buy any more straws though!!!

    Don't know if FL21 is available but there's better bulls available now.
    Maybe her indoors would buy you ten or fifteen Alfy straws for your birthday?:pac:
    That Lodge Hamlet is a serious looking bull, his calving difficulty will hardly stay that low tho.


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    #1134
    Miname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Miname


    Anyone any recommendations for a really showy type limo x blue heifer. Don't mention aa.


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    #1135
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭tanko


    Easy calving Saler??


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    #1136
    Kovu
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    Miname wrote: »
    Anyone any recommendations for a really showy type limo x blue heifer. Don't mention aa.

    Towthorpe Dubai, LM. Around 4% calving diff.


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    #1137
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Kovu wrote: »
    Towthorpe Dubai, LM. Around 4% calving diff.

    We've used a good bit of Dubai on heifers and one cow. The cow had a whopper of a bull calf, the heifers brought Compact enough calves at birth that shape up very well. He's a bull that I like.
    Blue X heifers though are in a league of their own. I'd be cautious for the first calf.


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    #1138
    Never wrestle with pigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,447 ✭✭✭Never wrestle with pigs


    Miname wrote: »
    Anyone any recommendations for a really showy type limo x blue heifer. Don't mention aa.

    Blonde or part for a nice shape type animal? Sim or saler for a keeper?

    Used sum SH dovea sir James this year on nice sim heifers, got his last 25 straws. Looking forward to the results. Hopefully sum nice shape roan type heifers.


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    #1139
    Sheep breeder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    we have a couple of dubai calves this year and very easy calved and growing well, only fault is light in the colour on pure cows.


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    #1140
    adne
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭adne


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    ZAG is by Apertaine Commander (APM) X Ronick Hawk, back to the G7 cow in the Castelview Herd. Both are good bulls so would be very surprised if ZAG didn't produce the goods too.

    Any one know where i could get hold of an apm straw?


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    #1141
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Kovu wrote: »
    Went a bit mad and used Queenshead Altea on a cow, €70 for a first serve :o :eek:

    Bitch is in heat this morning :mad: Boooooooo. Ah well, in for a penny, in for a pound!


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