Piemontese Cattle

LivInt20

Anybody ever come across these Piemontese cattle and if so any opinions

http://www.irishpiemontesesociety.com/

Bodacious

have never used any semen but id class them similar to parthanaise/bb i suppose, medium sized well muscled to be used only as a terminal sire on good continental cows with a bit of muscle themselves and be heading for export market.

i am wondering the reason why the society say to avoid using piemontese on holstein?

mikeoh

i am wondering the reason why the society say to avoid using piemontese on holstein?[/quote]

Too leggy look like racehorses

johnpawl

I have a Pixbrfr cow, a small cow but always throws my best calves. Have PT calves off her for last two years and they're v good quality. Have kilmoney Bruce on her for next year.

blue5000

Dovea had a piedmontese bull about 20yrs ago, was easy calving, I had one fr x bull by him, but the less said the better.

I think someone near Thurles has about 20 cows, some of the yearling bulls I saw there were very temper'mental'. That was about 5 years ago.

They are very tight gutted, lean well muscled cattle that kill out well. They might suit the export trade for Italy.

gazahayes

blue5000 wrote: »

Dovea had a piedmontese bull about 20yrs ago, was easy calving, I had one fr x bull by him, but the less said the better.

I think someone near Thurles has about 20 cows, some of the yearling bulls I saw there were very temper'mental'. That was about 5 years ago.

They are very tight gutted, lean well muscled cattle that kill out well. They might suit the export trade for Italy.

I did my placement just outside Thurles from Gurteen suckler and sheep farm beside old sugar factory. He's an Ai technician too and did a lot for the lad that breeds the piemontese he was so impressed he bought a bull from him. Before that he was selling mainly to export smashing looking cattle. Must call over and see what their like now.

1chippy

i wonder how they would cross with a blue

gazahayes

1chippy wrote: »

i wonder how they would cross with a blue

From what I can remember he had a few 1/4 bred blue cows and they started to throw nice light framed calves don't know what they grew into.