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Belgian Blue

  • 26-12-2011 3:10pm
    #1
    Looney1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭


    Im hobby farming on 30 acres. Have 12 lovely limousin cows out of british fresians. Used angus AI last year on heifers for ease of calf. Would love to think i could go for BB on cows. Am I mad considering I work Mon - Fri 9 - 5. Is there such a thing as easy caving BB or is it all just relative?


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  • #2
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Are you going to AI them or buy a bull. BB bulls aint exactly cheap.

    I don't think you'd have any problems if you AI them to a well proven BB bulls with easy calving figures. It's a different story when buying a bull. I notice that even at the last BB premier sale held in Roscrea, they didn't have Calving Diffiuculty figures on the brochure. A lot of the bulls were from well known hard calving bulls, like Empre (EZN) and Heros. what were they trying to hide?


  • #3
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Looney1 wrote: »
    Im hobby farming on 30 acres. Have 12 lovely limousin cows out of british fresians. Used angus AI last year on heifers for ease of calf. Would love to think i could go for BB on cows. Am I mad considering I work Mon - Fri 9 - 5. Is there such a thing as easy caving BB or is it all just relative?

    Most of our non PB LM's are from Br Fr breeding and started me off into showing cattle. I have not seen too many problems with ours but as Pakalasa says, it depends on if you buy a bull or use AI. With AI would you plan to scan and watch them around the time or just let them calve naturally?
    I'd be more of a fan of BB if you wouldn't be around, a LM would bring very light on the bone crossed again and a CH could bring heavy boned calves which could cause dfficulty of calving.
    Once you could source an easy calving BB eg BBQ, or a stock bull with easy calving breeding, then you would be all set.

    Personally, if they were my cattle, I'd flush and bring all into heat at once so I could have a tidier calving period and also then I would be able to AI with an easy calving blue.


  • #4
    mousetrap2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭mousetrap2010


    i fully agree with you karen flushing and ai for 12 is a brilliant idea and as for workin 9-5 you should be alright if you could get a week or 2 off for the calving period i feed my cows in the morning time everyday so that they will calve in the evening time you may think im mad but it works some of the time cows can be unpredictable at calving (as in dangerous) particularly limousin


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