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Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

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  • #4082
    High bike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭High bike


    golodge wrote: »
    On what type of cows it would be the best to use Lodge Hamlet? Is he good to calve for heifers? Has anyone kept his daughter for breeding, what about the milk?
    put him on a first calver this year and she calved away no bother,she was 30 mts at calving


  • #4083
    squinn2912
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,426 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Would you coil them? Done a bit of ai here last year and found it as hard as a second calving season.

    Tried paint and a strong weanling that was jumping on anything when he was with the bull and cows but thevwee skitter went nowhere near the heifers. One had paint in tact for 6 weeks until we took the bull over. Repeated once bulled twice. Pain,


  • #4084
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    Anyone have any experience of Dovea CH bull Loki


  • #4085
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of Dovea CH bull Loki

    Seen some lovely calves off him, have a heifer calf scanned to him on a salers/ch 2nd calver this year so should be interesting.


  • #4086
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,806 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of Dovea CH bull Loki

    Seen a few serious pedigree calves off him. Very muscle.


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  • #4087
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of Dovea CH bull Loki

    On an older post someone mentioned that they thought his cattle were hard to finish, almost like a limousin.


  • #4088
    Donegalforever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭Donegalforever


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of Dovea CH bull Loki

    I served him to a classy black LMX.
    Calf nothing exceptional.
    No problem calving.


  • #4089
    GiantPencil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭GiantPencil


    New Dovea ai book is out: https://d2s78nzxh2oqox.cloudfront.net/general/Beef_Catalogue_DoveaGenetics?mtime=1580981899


  • #4090
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    GiantPencil wrote: »
    New Dovea ai book is out: https://d2s78nzxh2oqox.cloudfront.net/general/Beef_Catalogue_DoveaGenetics?mtime=1580981899

    I’d like to try out Laheens Master, should bring muscle


  • #4091
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    I’d like to try out Laheens Master, should bring muscle

    He looks an absolute belter.


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  • #4092
    rushvalley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 428 ✭✭rushvalley


    GiantPencil wrote: »
    New Dovea ai book is out: https://d2s78nzxh2oqox.cloudfront.net/general/Beef_Catalogue_DoveaGenetics?mtime=1580981899

    I see mbp has disappeared from the limousins this year which is a pity as he always produced the goods


  • #4093
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,659 ✭✭✭tanko


    rushvalley wrote: »
    I see mbp has disappeared from the limousins this year which is a pity as he always produced the goods

    Yeah, he's a serious terminal bull, being harder calved than average meant his stars were bad. If you ring Dovea they might still have straws off him even tho he's not in the book.


  • #4094
    RobinBanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭RobinBanks


    I had a handy little Loki calf last night. Cow calved herself. Lovely roan colored bull calf. (Would have been a sweet heifer seen as everyone wants roan these days) Hes small but bit of shape to him so id say he will turn out ok. I will stick up a pic over the weekend.


  • #4095
    john mayo 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    RobinBanks wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of Dovea CH bull Loki

    Used him last year. Bull calf born early February out of a sim cow with 3 spins. Weighted 450kg mid October in the mart. Smashing animal. Great muscle. Her time is up now to him again. Will post a pic when she calves.


  • #4096
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    john mayo 10 wrote: »
    Used him last year. Bull calf born early February out of a sim cow with 3 spins. Weighted 450kg mid October in the mart. Smashing animal. Great muscle. Her time is up now to him again. Will post a pic when she calves.
    What’s he like for height?
    Do you need a tall cow?


  • #4097
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Masters was sold for 7k. Not a great photo from the show.


  • #4098
    john mayo 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    What’s he like for height?
    Do you need a tall cow?
    shes not that tall of a cow at all. His breeding is by pirate. I'm changed from ai to a bull this year. If I come across anything by loki I will buy


  • #4099
    john mayo 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Loki ch4159 heifer calf born yesterday out of a PB sim cow.


  • #4100
    john mayo 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭john mayo 10


    Loki heifer


  • #4101
    Seanhorse91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭Seanhorse91


    Loyal (lm4184) heifer calf born earlier. First of a good few I’ve put him incalf to. Out of 1st time calver, 26 months, bit over fat, and a pull needed. Very lively calf tho. 287 days gestation. Very happy with the calf. Here’s to hoping there all similar quality!


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  • #4102
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,054 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Anyone know why DERRYGULLINANE KINGBULL is gone from Munster AI & Progessive Genetics?


  • #4103
    Baalbec10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Baalbec10


    How do you know he is gone from progressive?


  • #4104
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,054 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Baalbec10 wrote: »
    How do you know he is gone from progressive?

    He was taken down from both their websites.


  • #4105
    squinn2912
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,426 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Guys what saler bulls are you using? Someone told me there’s a quiet strain of them. I know I swore never to let another one into the yard but I’m considering the dark side


  • #4106
    Sugarbowl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭Sugarbowl


    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Guys what saler bulls are you using? Someone told me there’s a quiet strain of them. I know I swore never to let another one into the yard but I’m considering the dark side

    Join the dark side... they’re a great animal! :D


  • #4107
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Guys what saler bulls are you using? Someone told me there’s a quiet strain of them. I know I swore never to let another one into the yard but I’m considering the dark side

    Ha im in the same boat here. Beguin has pretty positive reviews but is €26 per straw so im going to be starved and use his son knottstown roy at €8.


  • #4108
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    squinn2912 wrote: »
    Guys what saler bulls are you using? Someone told me there’s a quiet strain of them. I know I swore never to let another one into the yard but I’m considering the dark side

    I've had three Ulsan (though he's gone now I think) Two heifers off quiet heifers & one bull off a wilder one. The heifers are the sweetest, quietest animals in the shed (both kept on for cows) but the bull was always a bit flighty. So I'd be hesitant to use Salers again on a wilder cow/heifer. Personally wouldn't read much into docility figures, would have more belief in quiet cows breeding quiet as the calves learn that humans aren't all bad. .


  • #4109
    squinn2912
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,426 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Sugarbowl wrote: »
    Join the dark side... they’re a great animal! :D

    Don’t get too excited we’re talking small scale


  • #4110
    Baalbec10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Baalbec10


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Anyone know why DERRYGULLINANE KINGBULL is gone from Munster AI & Progessive Genetics?

    Confirmed kingbull is out of stock, will be back in stock in 6 weeks


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  • #4111
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,659 ✭✭✭tanko


    The 2020 Bova catalogue is up on their Facebook page.


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