Easy calving Belgian Blue stock bull.

Dawggone

Anyone know of easy calving Blue Bulls for sale, suitable for dairy cows?

patsy_mccabe

When you do find a bull you are interested in, get the tag Number and put it into;
https://webapp.icbf.com/bull-search/

tismesoitis

Stick a patten aide on them Dawg you'll have a great demand for the heifers and cracking bull calves!! I can't get part heifer calves out of the dairy herd for the life of me

tismesoitis

That was supposed to say Parthenaise.

bogman_bass

I wouldn't be running a blue stock bull. They are just not made for natural service.

However you didn't ask my opinion.

Are you looking for one here or closer to where you are based?

tismesoitis

I didn't answer question either... Maybe contact blue society. They might have a breeder list with stock for sale!

annubis

look up patrick kent in wexford, he breeds blue bulls specifically easy calving ones
http://issuu.com/jennalyn11/docs/yearbook_2012_2013/9

grassroot1

Maybe you should ask yourself if you are in beef or dairy?

leg wax

tismesoitis wrote: »

Stick a patten aide on them Dawg you'll have a great demand for the heifers and cracking bull calves!! I can't get part heifer calves out of the dairy herd for the life of me

will have them in the spring,,,,,:p

Grueller

bogman_bass wrote: »

I wouldn't be running a blue stock bull. They are just not made for natural service.

However you didn't ask my opinion.

Are you looking for one here or closer to where you are based?

Untrue, if lads opened theie eyes when buying them and looked for functionality insted of looking for a silver bullet of a bull that will give export weanlings off average cows there are lots of good easy calving blue bulls out there.
Edited to say that you need a white bull. Any other colour will leave the calves marked like their friesian dam.

jaymla627

Grueller wrote: »

Untrue, if lads opened theie eyes when buying them and looked for functionality insted of looking for a silver bullet of a bull that will give export weanlings off average cows there are lots of good easy calving blue bulls out there.
Edited to say that you need a white bull. Any other colour will leave the calves marked like their friesian dam.

Plus one on that, had a cracker of a blue bull.here when i was at the sucklers, done 6 seasons and sired over 300 calves with minimal assistance needed and left behind great stock, sold him to a neighbour who got another 2 years out of him, extremely docile animals as bulls go too would reckon they'd work grand with a herd where their not being walked crazy distances and under a hour of a turn around when milking

Tyson Lannister

I sold a parthenaise bull to a dairy farmer in the spring time. His second part bull. He puts the heifers on donedeal and they're gone in no time.

annubis

my neighbour used my part bull on his british freisans there a few years back, he kept 7 or 8 of the offspring as suckler cows, they dont look much but would be good milkers obviously, seem to bring nice calves but the colors wouldnt be the nicest in some cases

Dawggone

bogman_bass wrote: »

I wouldn't be running a blue stock bull. They are just not made for natural service.

However you didn't ask my opinion.

Are you looking for one here or closer to where you are based?

Irish bulls.

Dawggone

grassroot1 wrote: »

Maybe you should ask yourself if you are in beef or dairy?

Dairy. Calves are just a byproduct but the lims are hard to offload. Trying to add a bit of value to calves really.

Dawggone

leg wax wrote: »

will have them in the spring,,,,,:p

Part crosses make the same as jer crosses here.

freedominacup

Pm sent.

leg wax

Dawggone wrote: »

Part crosses make the same as jer crosses here.

in big demand here from the suckler men.

Miname

leg wax wrote: »

in big demand here from the suckler men.

would they throw the calves anywhere near as good as the ones you used to breed or would it be the heifers off them that would breed the export calves?

bogman_bass

Would it be easier and cheaper for you to get one from Belgium Dawg?
http://www.netbbg.com/netbbg/commun/corps/recherche_tx.php

Grueller

Miname wrote: »

would they throw the calves anywhere near as good as the ones you used to breed or would it be the heifers off them that would breed the export calves?

They would likely breed u grades, possibly still export grade nut the next generation would bring the real deal e grades imo. Thats the way it works for us anyhow.

Dawggone

bogman_bass wrote: »

Would it be easier and cheaper for you to get one from Belgium Dawg?
http://www.netbbg.com/netbbg/commun/corps/recherche_tx.php

The Belgian ones are harder calves. British and Irish blues are easier calved.

bogman_bass

Dawggone wrote: »

The Belgian ones are harder calves. British and Irish blues are easier calved.

Not nessisarily. Any blue for the dairy market being sold in Irish AI at the moment are coming in from Belgium

Mad4simmental

Out of intrest dawg, when you ran the lim bulls last year did they increase your conception rate and overall calves on the ground ?

Dawggone

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Out of intrest dawg, when you ran the lim bulls last year did they increase your conception rate and overall calves on the ground ?

Yes. But schmallenberg was an issue also.