Simmental

RD10

Am looking for breeding/in calf simmentals. Am in West of ireland.

Anyone know where one could source them?

Lime Tree Farm

Try this man, he has pedigree and commercial.

https://www.towerhillsimmentals.com/for-sale

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118348633#Comment_118348633

All her commercials are gone. Sold in gort and sixmilebridge.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118348639#Comment_118348639

Actually she's currently the president of the simm association so obviously good contacts.

Lime Tree Farm

I think she also did a stint in Canada with the association. My dealings were with her father, good stock, nice quiet animals.

patsy_mccabe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118348862#Comment_118348862

I know someone that bought an in-calf heifer from them. I went into the field to have a look at her and she came at me with her head down. She was only looking to get her head scratched. Lovely quiet heifer.

raher1

http://strongbopolled.ie/our-herd/

polled heifer

The Nutty M

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058223582/simmental

Try the other woman on the simmental council. They might have something.

http://www.irishsimmental.com/about-us/council-club-officers/

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118349054#Comment_118349054

I've 11 heifers bought off them the last few years, very happy with them.

RD10

Cheers everyone.

RD10

Just out of curiosity, wondering do many on here go with the simmental?

Run a charolais bull here with mostly lim, sim and the odd charolais.

Ch/sim is a great cross, surprised not more people doing it.

Hard Knocks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359005#Comment_118359005

Have 2 Simmental cows, great cross to a Charolais bull alright, blonde cow is another good cross

squinn2912

We’re about 75% Lim cows and then a few simmy/limmy or limmy/simmy with a few yella charolais, 3 parthanais and 4 sim/fr so a fair bit of sim in the herd. Had a sim bull running with heifers and cows for 3 seasons so there’ll be a good number of sim heifers coming through. Charolais make a great cow if they have milk but I find some charolais crossed with lim can turn out to be oversized and shockin ignorant to work with. TB test today so it was a day of arguing with them.

Hard Knocks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359082#Comment_118359082

LMxCH calves can be born with both muscle and bone, ideal when selling but not at calving

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359184#Comment_118359184

Yep ideally your cow would be at least 2nd calver for the charolais bull I’d be a believer in easy calving bulls. Small starting and then growth

Hard Knocks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359519#Comment_118359519

Agree with your thinking, sadly not all easy calving bulls have good growth, going by gestation length but sadly that can miss some good bulls as some like to register late

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118361889#Comment_118361889

Ah that’s it. Another argument for having your own bull that you know the craic.

injected 5 replacement heifers yesterday pondering what to serve them with if they come bulling Friday

Dunedin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359005#Comment_118359005

I’ve always and ever gone with a limo bull. 2 years ago decided I’d go with a Simmental for one year to get a few sim crosses to keep for replacements.

so have 20 simmental weanlings now from him. Definitely don’t have the same quality of weanlings as normal years. Some really strong weanling bulls but a few middling heifers too. I run a strictly 7 week compact calving (bull is taken away>7 weeks) so there shouldn’t be much of a gap. Mostly all R grades, couldn’t pick out an obvious U grade whereas with the limo I’d have plenty of U’s.

one thing though is they’re exceptionally quiet but I’ll be going back to the limo next year.

squinn2912

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118363123#Comment_118363123

Yea a similar story here too. Not too thrilled about the quality of the calves. Good solid thrivers but average ends on them. A fair few were almost a solid red colour so that might help sell them down the line and the heifers should make decent cows. Sim bull gone now and got a stop gap lim bull. He’s nice shape but a very small bull and fine. So bought a charolais bull that should be easy calving for cows. Will give the lim lad a chance that he’s ok to keep another season for heifers and a few cows and if not then likely look about another lim bull for that job. I wouldn’t go back Sim again. This bull was handy money so you buy cheap and you pay dear maybe if it was a better lad he’d stand a chance but whatever about a few ai I don’t think I’d dilute the numbers like that again.