can anyone tell me anything about a rare breed of cattle called drimin ?

GreatOaktree

I may have the name spelled wrong. They are very rare and share similarities with the moilled cattle but are not related.

patsy_mccabe

I did a quick google search and found this.
See last paragraph of page 68.
It seems that they were the old stock of Irish cows going way back.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20489834?seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents

Also;
http://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Drimin_Dhu_Dheelish

Buford T. Justice XIX

GreatOaktree wrote: »

I may have the name spelled wrong. They are very rare and share similarities with the moilled cattle but are not related.

Google Droimeann cattle for more but this is the first link shown.

http://www.killrowanfarm.ie/animals/droimeann

50HX

Google Big Bertha:D

kennypowers

Up to recently they were very common on most small holdings around here<south Kerry>.A small hardy animal that was famed for its longevity.I think this is one of the most famous member of its breedhttp://b-static.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(cow)

GreatOaktree

Thanks for the replies guys. I have the option of buying one of these probably grad c or a pedigree moiled. Both are about 1 year old hefs and about the same price. What should I do ?

J.O. Farmer

GreatOaktree wrote: »

Thanks for the replies guys. I have the option of buying one of these probably grad c or a pedigree moiled. Both are about 1 year old hefs and about the same price. What should I do ?

I presume you want to buy one because of the heritage or something other than just to produce a commercial weanling. I think you should go for the one you think you'd most like to have based on heritage or appearance.

pedigree 6

kennypowers wrote: »

Up to recently they were very common on most small holdings around here<south Kerry>.A small hardy animal that was famed for its longevity.I think this is one of the most famous member of its breedhttp://b-static.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/smile.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(cow)

A stuffed cow! I've heard it all now and she resides on a farm.:pac::D

GreatOaktree

Yea I am an archaeologist, I come from a farming back round and I have a few acres so id like to go for something of old stock.I like the look of the Dromieann more. She's a much better calf. How does the grade system work ? I think she's a C so if I bull her to a pure breed bull will her calf be a B.

J.O. Farmer

GreatOaktree wrote: »

Yea I am an archaeologist, I come from a farming back round and I have a few acres so id like to go for something of old stock.I like the look of the Dromieann more. She's a much better calf. How does the grade system work ? I think she's a C so if I bull her to a pure breed bull will her calf be a B.

I would go with the Dromieann then as it sounds like you'llonly have 1 or 2 which wont make you or hopefully not break you. I don't know about the grade system though. I never heard of the like in cattle. It might be like connemara ponies and all calves are C and can be upgraded if meeting breed characteristics. however there's rules about parents and their grade limiting the foals grade.

Kovu

Might be worth chatting to Pat Melvin in Roscommon, he used to breed them, I think!

Can't give you a number here but you'll prob get it if you google or PM me and I'll give it to you.

irish moiled

Problem is that there are so few Droimeanns left, that there is little "purebreed" left, they would have been mixed with other breeds over the years, so it would be difficult to run a grading scheme without genomic testing to identify the bulls with highest proportion of Droimeann in them.
The Droimeann cattle society maintain a Facebook page if you are interested.
They also do some genomic testing to identify these bulls.
The grade system used to apply about 20 years ago for Irish moiled cattle but they had purebred bulls in which to apply the grading scheme, that is now closed.