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Criteria you'd use when buying a bull

  • 07-12-2011 2:59pm
    #1
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭


    What are the top criteria you would use when buying a bull?

    How much, if at all, would your decision be influenced by euro star and BLUP indices?

    Muckit


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  • #2
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Muckit wrote: »
    What are the top criteria you would use when buying a bull?

    How much, if at all, would your decision be influenced by euro star and BLUP indices?

    Muckit

    1. If i didn't like the look of a bull, I wouldn't buy him - I look at his height, bone thickness (especially at start of tail), quality of feet, quality of hair, muscle (especially end muscle), fat (I won't buy an over fed bull, but an under fed bull is hard to judge).

    2. More recently, I will follow euro start traits for SBV, ease of calving and milk. I wouldn't care if he wasn't Blup tested.


  • #3
    flatout11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭flatout11


    looks, pedigree and figures in that order


  • #4
    Charlie Charolais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭Charlie Charolais


    his offspring


  • #5
    flatout11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭flatout11


    Charlie Charolais wrote: »
    his offspring

    what age are you buying them at?


  • #6
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    • Size
    • shape
    • feet and legs
    • balls:pac:
    Then I'd run his tag number through icbf to see if any low figures showed up. Normally I am buying a bull to breed daughters off so fertility is important for me.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #7
    Charlie Charolais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭Charlie Charolais


    flatout11 wrote: »
    what age are you buying them at?

    3+ years old


  • #8
    flatout11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭flatout11


    Charlie Charolais wrote: »
    3+ years old
    hardly much of a choice at that stage?


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