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Anyone use eby for replacements. Have a lovely heifer by him 14 months old. His figures aren't great for milk though

john mayo 10 wrote: »

Anyone use eby for replacements. Have a lovely heifer by him 14 months old. His figures aren't great for milk though

Is the mother a good milky cow, if the heifer is a nice R grade and not too muscly she might be worth a try but if she's a muscly U grade i'd say no.
Had a few EBY heifers here but sold them on.

tanko wrote: »

Is the mother a good milky cow, if the heifer is a nice R grade and not too muscly she might be worth a try but if she's a muscly U grade i'd say no.
Had a few EBY heifers here but sold them on.

Her mother is out of a pure bred simmental cow I have out of curaheen apostle et. She has loads of milk

tanko wrote: »

She should be worth a go so.

Curaheen Apostle daughters have a very poor reputation for calving, what's yours like?

Not a bother on her. Thank God. No issues calving and rears a good calf every year

Goldstar Ludwig - fine big lump unassisted

RobinBanks wrote: »

I have a Belgian Blue cow by BBQ. She is out of a Simmental cow from a dairy cow. My cow isn’t a typical blue. She’s very plain, not muscly at all. She’s had 2 lim calves so far and both are plain calves no real shape. I was thinking of giving her a blue this time but wondering would that be a bad choice putting blue bull on a blue cow. Would calf come very muscly and be hard calved?

What were the lims by,

I don't know what the blue would be like.
You couldn't always try Wilodge Joskins or Mullary Intrepid.

tanko wrote: »

I don't know what the blue would be like.
You couldn't always try Wilodge Joskins or Mullary Intrepid.

I'm half joking about those bulls, don't know much about them, they look like muscle machines.

I wouldn't put blue on blue but that's more to do with too much fine bone & my own preferences rather than too much muscle. If she's tall & more sim framed I'd put something like Lodge Hamlet or Knockmoyle Loki on her. If she's small, then perhaps something for a bit more style like Cavelands Jolly or even a blonde, though again, I'd be disinclined to do that if she's fine boned.

Of course, it very much depends on how she's calved in the previous two years!

charolais0153 wrote: »

Mbp maybe or a ch, seen a monster ch out of lisagrane laurence out of a blue cow on twitter

Knowing my Luck I will end up with a horrible mouse coloured calf. Cow is black and white

RobinBanks wrote: »

Yes. She’s a tall cow and both her calves are lanky. I’m sure if I will use Loki again. I have 3 horses of bull calves and a dweeb of a heifer. Bulls look more like finishing type animals. Big framed calves not much shape. Early days yet though.

Has Dovea any bulls similar to hamlet?

As Tanko said above- Wilodge Joskins, she'd want to be a good calver though. Take a look at LM4745, not seen any progeny off him but nice muscle pedigree behind him.

RobinBanks wrote: »

Joskins! Would rather keep cow alive......putting him on a blue cow could be a disaster

:D Hence I was wondering about her calving ability! I'd have no issue putting any sort of CD on a cow but she'd be on a strict diet before calving.
Sonnybill on here has used TVR on blue cows with no issue.

tanko wrote: »

I like Gamin (ZGM) the Bova bull, he'd be ideal for that cow, easy calved too.
Would EBY be worth a try with that sort of cow.
The new Bova catalogue arrived today, no new Lims this year i think.
No sign of THZ, has he been gone for a while?

I'm still high from sticking my nose into it to get the full effect of the new catalogue/glue smell:D

have. Thz straw in the tank was thinking of putting in a muscley 2 nd calver this year,what u think she’s a pure bred limo??

I got my Bova catalogue aswell today. Sad what looking tru a bull catalogue can do for you.:D
Is Limbo Ben (Lm5145) not a new bull?

squinn2912 wrote: »

After the ordeal I had with the wee blue heifer a month ago I'd be reluctant to ever keep them again for cows. IT's a shame because they're lovely cattle - quiet enough and decent mothers. I had a blue calf yesterday and I was more than pleased to see a bag under the legs.

I was hoping to have LMxBBxLM cows to produce the top muscled calves for export
Like you I’d bad experience and had to section heifers and then stopped
I’ve learned since .. the issue I had was the heifers were too narrow at the hips and weren’t able to get the calves out

Tried a few BB since, some lovely heifers but not enough hip width, even RSA
If anyone knows a BB bull with good daughter hip width