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Limousine Bull

  • 27-03-2017 10:15pm
    #1
    pault153
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    hey lads
    anyone used elite ice cream et (PG) . looks a smasher. Is he a hard calfer in reality?
    have a nice BB cow has calfed to APZ. and CQA (simmentals) . Had to section her as a 2nd calfer to a charloais.
    cheers lads


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  • #2
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    pault153 wrote: »
    hey lads
    anyone used elite ice cream et (PG) . looks a smasher. Is he a hard calfer in reality?
    have a nice BB cow has calfed to APZ. and CQA (simmentals) . Had to section her as a 2nd calfer to a charloais.
    cheers lads

    Think he's the next tvr...whether that's a good or a bad thing idk


  • #3
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    I'd always be wary of Elite bulls, quite a lot of them are difficult calving. Used them a bit but you'd wanna be close to the yard come calving time.
    If you look at the Elite herd, nearly all the bulls are ET's, whatever that says about them!!


  • #4
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    Remember elite erasmus ERE. Don't know what he is now but at one stage he was over 20% calving difficulty. I never saw the likes in a limo before.


  • #5
    Lady Haywire
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    tismesoitis wrote: »
    Remember elite erasmus ERE. Don't know what he is now but at one stage he was over 20% calving difficulty. I never saw the likes in a limo before.

    I loved him! Still have two heifers by him, one first calver was due yesterday, but he wasn't for the faint-hearted.


  • #6
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I'd always be wary of Elite bulls, quite a lot of them are difficult calving. Used them a bit but you'd wanna be close to the yard come calving time.
    If you look at the Elite herd, nearly all the bulls are ET's, whatever that says about them!!

    The Arlea and Elite pedigree limousine herds are both owned by the one family. The Elite herd concentrate on ET.
    Elite Ice Cream does look like a smasher, but I would wait until he is proven for calving.
    Elite Flag ET is only 4.6% for calving. I think he is gone now. I have a few calves by him and they all stayed very small.


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  • #7
    Lady Haywire
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    The Arlea and Elite pedigree limousine herds are both owned by the one family. The Elite herd concentrate on ET.
    Elite Ice Cream does look like a smasher, but I would wait until he is proven for calving.
    Elite Flag ET is only 4.6% for calving. I think he is gone now. I have a few calves by him and they all stayed very small.

    Ah I see! Thanks for that, was a bit bewildered by all the ETs in that herd name.


  • #8
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭tanko


    pault153 wrote: »
    hey lads
    anyone used elite ice cream et (PG) . looks a smasher. Is he a hard calfer in reality?
    have a nice BB cow has calfed to APZ. and CQA (simmentals) . Had to section her as a 2nd calfer to a charloais.
    cheers lads

    Ice cream is 8% calving difficulty at low reliability, I'd expect that to rise a lot yet. Your cow has already had a section, you hardly want to risk her having another one.
    I think i'd err on the side of caution and pick a proven easy enough calving bull for her.


  • #9
    croot
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Elite Flag ET is only 4.6% for calving. I think he is gone now. I have a few calves by him and they all stayed very small.
    He is gone alright and my calves from him were the same as yours. All stayed small enough even out of tall cows.


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