blondes

tismesoitis

thinkin of using a few blonde straws just to compare along the lims and parts as suckler dams. any recomendations as to which bull to use?? has anyone BA cows out of bulls still available? interested to hear opinions. thanks

bob charles

tismesoitis wrote: »

thinkin of using a few blonde straws just to compare along the lims and parts as suckler dams. any recomendations as to which bull to use?? has anyone BA cows out of bulls still available? interested to hear opinions. thanks

I love blondes, but I didnt like all the chasing after them, the flighty buggers:rolleyes:. They are serious animals. Remember a couple of bulls I had here probably 5 years back, one guy killed 70% and another 72% if memory serves me right, like thoroughbred race horses

jayc12

Wiveton Indiana and Ganaway Jasper are two easy calving blonde bulls and are suitable for heifers.

blue5000

Look very carefully at the fertility and milk figures. In my experience blondes are better as a terminal sire.

leg wax

yes blondes will let you down if you want compact calving as they will carry a bb calf for 300 days most of the time.

Bodacious

leg wax wrote: »

yes blondes will let you down if you want compact calving as they will carry a bb calf for 300 days most of the time.

I love Kilmoney Bruce, he is not a giant big but super muscled bull, great top line and lovely head IMO .. I threatened ordering in straws last year but ill definitely do it this year!

blue5000

jayc12 wrote: »

Wiveton Indiana and Ganaway Jasper are two easy calving blonde bulls and are suitable for heifers.

Not much milk there and Kilmoney bruce has 5 stars for milk but only 14% reliability for it. OP you'd want to have lots of milk on the cow side to use these.

pakalasa

The blondes have never really taken off in Ireland. I suppose there's reasons why.

Bizzum

We have a few very good BAx cows, several are off Landais, who is gone now, 3 others were bought in but from a local farmer from good cows. They breed mainly super calves for us, none look like they will flood the place with milk but do a good job on the calf. I would use only on milky cows, and the gest lenght as mentioned above can be a pain, having said that some of the Lim cows are bringing plenty of time too.
Like a lot of things, I don't see them as a cure all breed but the right one can make a super cow.
Two BA bulls that would interest me although not cheap are Jockey (€25) and Tito (€40) both from powerful genetics. Jockey in particular could be a useful bull to have a few daughters off.
http://www.powerfulgenetics.com/html/jockey.html

vanderbadger

they have redone their website recently..the blonde society that is and have some offer on for lads that buy blonde..i think your pedigree registration fees are free or some such

easycaresheep

We keep a herd of 50 pedigree blonde cows, and won best blonde herd in the country this year. There is a misconception that blondes are big mad leggy animals- some are, but you will have this within any breed. We keep all British Blonde cows which is very different to the french blonde. The. British blonde are softer fleshed, early maturing and extremely docile. Blondes are very easy calving and females are very sought after for breeding. Use fronfedw arrawan on heifers Blackwater Ainsley, Ark diego, kilmoney bruce for muscling. If you are looking for replacements use Druk lance, Blackwater Jockey or Edendale jigsaw and you wont go far wrong:-)

Caffrey78

We have a couple of Blonde X Simm cows. Easy calving, loads of milk and very docile. The calves grow like wild fire with great shape.
Nothing like the purebred British Blonde herd you have but from a simple suckler herd they are proving their worth.

Bodacious

i was sculling saturday and a fella had a jet black calf that was from a Blonde from Eurogene, he thinks the straw got mixed up as she is the cut of a black lim heifer, nothing special but a good straight tall leggy animal, nice head .. would a blonde come that black from a blue grey bb X dam?:rolleyes:

bob charles

yip

Bodacious

bob charles wrote: »

yip

cheers bob,

might make a nice heifer but nothing special and if anything if selecting as a suckler dam wouldnt you back a good black lim to have more milk

Bizzum

Bodacious wrote: »

might make a nice heifer but nothing special and if anything if selecting as a suckler dam wouldnt you back a good black lim to have more milk

My money would be on the heifer being a Blonde alright.
Whether a BA or Lim would bring more milk would depend on what exact Blonde/Lim bull was used. The dam will have a big say too.

Bodacious

Bodacious wrote: »

I love Kilmoney Bruce, he is not a giant big but super muscled bull, great top line and lovely head IMO .. I threatened ordering in straws last year but ill definitely do it this year!

I bought 3 straws off of this chap in the end.. used 2, 1 in tank, and have 2 cracking heifer weanlings.. im delighted with them so far and great growth



anyone have cows out of him and what are they like for milk!?

Genghis Cant

Bodacious wrote: »

anyone have cows out of him and what are they like for milk!?

No cows off him. I'd say he's poor enough for milk. What are the dam's like? If they brought a good sup he could get by.

Did ya see Bruce in the video Doves had out a few years ago. He's a serious looking bull.

Kovu

This is a KCE heifer of mine. She's very fine boned to my eyes & not very wide at the pin bone..
Maybe I have high standards though.

connormi

How do people find blonde for gestation length. Have cow due to calve to blonde bull and is gone over 290 days and still looks like wont calve for few more days. Meant make lovely cows that produce great calves.

Genghis Cant

connormi wrote: »

How do people find blonde for gestation length. Have cow due to calve to blonde bull and is gone over 290 days and still looks like wont calve for few more days. Meant make lovely cows that produce great calves.

In a word. Long. We'd see 300 days with some of them.

Bodacious

Kovu wrote: »

This is a KCE heifer of mine. She's very fine boned to my eyes & not very wide at the pin bone..
Maybe I have high standards though.

yours is very similar to my one out of a black lim cow.. she wide in the forehead anyway (nice antlers!) leave her until she is three years and cut them as close to the head at an angle.. she nice though

Bodacious

http://www.donedeal.ie/beefcattle-for-sale/breed-export-type/7959077


hardly dear at that?

Genghis Cant

Bodacious wrote: »

hardly dear at that?

I think this is him too. Nice bull.

Tyson Lannister

2500 seems too cheap for that bull?

Mad4simmental

Very nice looking bull. Probibly not for heifers as he looks big as blondes go but that could be the pictures. He dose seem cheep at that price I'd be looking at his feet very closely.

Bodacious

Bodacious wrote: »

yours is very similar to my one out of a black lim cow.. she wide in the forehead anyway (nice antlers!) leave her until she is three years and cut them as close to the head at an angle.. she nice though

When she calved -


4 months old - She put up a lot of weight since

Midlandsman80

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Very nice looking bull. Probibly not for heifers as he looks big as blondes go but that could be the pictures. He dose seem cheep at that price I'd be looking at his feet very closely.

That's seller is involved in the society and has a lot of quality Bulls, would think he would be a very straight seller

Mad4simmental

Midlandsman80 wrote: »

That's seller is involved in the society and has a lot of quality Bulls, would think he would be a very straight seller

Maby he just has to many stock so but he seems cheep for a top looking bull with super length.

Bodacious

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Maby he just has to many stock so but he seems cheep for a top looking bull with super length.

And only 18months .. Great buy he'd be If a man had enough cows for him!

leg wax

guys blonde and parthenaise are in demand ,2450 for my good cow and calf yesterday, and part heifers averaged 1180 .

Bullocks

leg wax wrote: »

guys blonde and parthenaise are in demand ,2450 for my good cow and calf yesterday, and part heifers averaged 1180 .

Great money legs , were the part heifers fit for the bull ?

leg wax

Bullocks wrote: »

Great money legs , were the part heifers fit for the bull ?

yes