Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

charolais0153 · 09-09-2020 12:14PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

God, ye must have very high standards. Like I said, he never got meal. She's a handy cow maybe 575kg. I'm sure he could get better prices from cont type cows with less milk, but he'd have to feed more meal to make up the diff in weight. End of day it's about profit not vanity.

50 euro of meal turns a calf inside out, that's probably one of his best too, there not all doing that

RD10 · 09-09-2020 01:19PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

This bull weighed 390kg yesterday at the mart. He never got a bit of meal, straight off the cow. It's some weight for a Feb calf. Mother is a black whitehead.

Some weight alright. Did you go with a few?

patsy_mccabe · 09-09-2020 01:25PM

RD10 wrote: »

Some weight alright. Did you go with a few?

Ah, he's a young relative of mine starting out, so I'm delighted for him.

Hard Knocks · 09-09-2020 10:30PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

No offence, but she's a sh!t cow if her calf is only worth 890 let alone a ch bull calf

But if that calf was golden yellow in colour the calf could of made €1200+
Sadly colour is a major factor

Hard Knocks · 09-09-2020 10:32PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Ah, he's a young relative of mine starting out, so I'm delighted for him.

A LM or SI heifer off that cow will set him up well

charolais0153 · 09-09-2020 10:57PM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

But if that calf was golden yellow in colour the calf could of made €1200+
Sadly colour is a major factor

Ya but that's the thin g out of black cows, colour is ****e. If my aunt had balls she'd b my uncle comes to mind

patsy_mccabe · 11-09-2020 01:35PM

Week old Excel (LM4027) calf. Great width to him. Seems quiet too.

charolais0153 · 11-09-2020 01:54PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Week old Excel (LM4027) calf. Great width to him. Seems quiet too.

Good bone for a limo too

Anto_Meath · 11-09-2020 09:53PM

LM,4027 are nice calves, I have two of them, done ok over the summer and quiet to work with.. best of luck with him.

charolais0153 · 13-09-2020 12:39PM

Anyone any mbp cows? How are they for milk?

tanko · 13-09-2020 12:46PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Anyone any mbp cows? How are they for milk?

Had two here a few years ago, they were very poor for milk even tho they were off milky cows.They weren’t kept long.

patsy_mccabe · 13-09-2020 01:20PM

RD10 wrote: »

Some weight alright. Did you go with a few?

Just saw this now. No just brought for him. He had other bucket fed calves too.

Mac Taylor · 13-09-2020 02:33PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Anyone any mbp cows? How are they for milk?

Kept one here a few years ago.....never again....the cat would have more milk.

893bet · 13-09-2020 03:39PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

€890 I think. Colour went against him. He was greyish.

Just about its price. Have softened a little in the last 3 weeks.

Sold three weanling yesterday. Two Zags and something else.

410 made 960
395 made 920
390 made 930.

Very surprised with the weights. Weight them 8 weeks ago (July 20) and they 312, 305 and 302. That’s a lot of weight to gain in 56 days. They had been on meal upto the 15 August or so. Grass was only middling the last month also so was happy with weights. A little disappointed with prices.

893bet · 13-09-2020 03:42PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

No offence, but she's a sh!t cow if her calf is only worth 890 let alone a ch bull calf

It’s a 7 month old bull......who never had a shake of meal. If all our cows could get calves to that weight with no meal....

And saying “no offence” is not really excuses of being an asshole, no offence.

charolais0153 · 13-09-2020 08:25PM

893bet wrote: »

It’s a 7 month old bull......who never had a shake of meal. If all our cows could get calves to that weight with no meal....

And saying “no offence” is not really excuses of being an asshole, no offence.

ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ When u see the prices little heifers are making, suckle farming is far more than having 400kgs of a calf, a blue is worth 3/kg golden charolais 2.8 and your going nearer to 2/kg for bad calfs with bad colours. Nobody will pay big bucks for bad coloured calfs, all well and good on paper getting so much gain per day, ounce of breeding is worth a tonne of feeding as they say. No offence :rolleyes:

patsy_mccabe · 13-09-2020 08:36PM

Colour is everything! ...
And all the cute boys buying the wrong colour calves. Larry doesn't pay for colour.

charolais0153 · 13-09-2020 08:47PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Colour is everything! ...
And all the cute boys buying the wrong colour calves. Larry doesn't pay for colour.

I'm not selling to Larry...

RobinBanks · 14-09-2020 12:31PM

893bet wrote: »

It’s a 7 month old bull......who never had a shake of meal. If all our cows could get calves to that weight with no meal....

And saying “no offence” is not really excuses of being an asshole, no offence.

LOL, couldn't have said it better myself

funkey_monkey · 14-09-2020 04:02PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Colour is everything! ...
And all the cute boys buying the wrong colour calves. Larry doesn't pay for colour.

Why is colour a thing if you're just going to cut its throat?

patsy_mccabe · 14-09-2020 05:08PM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Why is colour a thing if you're just going to cut its throat?

Wrong colour would hint at wrong breeding. A golden charolais would indicate a char from a red Lim. A mousey char, an Angus or black Lim mother.

furandfeather · 14-09-2020 06:03PM

Anyone ever calf down a heifer from a culard charlaois ?

Amateur Farmer · 20-09-2020 07:57PM

Who2 wrote: »

Anyone any experience with tomschoice jet?

Hi, just wondering if you received any feedback on Tomschoice Jet? I’m thinking of using him this Autumn and was wondering what sort of cow suits him best?

Any help would be appreciated.

charolais0153 · 20-09-2020 09:23PM

Amateur Farmer wrote: »

Hi, just wondering if you received any feedback on Tomschoice Jet? I’m thinking of using him this Autumn and was wondering what sort of cow suits him best?

Any help would be appreciated.

Seen a Tom's choice calf make 1050 at 345kgs, out of pathaneise x limo cow., lovely wide hairy calf

Sugarbowl · 27-09-2020 02:24PM

Anyone have Lm 4217 Knell calves? How are they as weanlings? Are heifers looking like good replacements? Any information welcome

ABitofsense · 27-09-2020 04:02PM

Mine are doing well. Nice & docile too. Bulls are doing about 1.35 ADG. Couple of nice shapely heifers too by him which I'll be keeping hopefully as replacements next year. He is performing way better than my ZAG calves anyway.

Sugarbowl · 27-09-2020 04:15PM

ABitofsense wrote: »

Mine are doing well. Nice & docile too. Bulls are doing about 1.35 ADG. Couple of nice shapely heifers too by him which I'll be keeping hopefully as replacements next year. He is performing way better than my ZAG calves anyway.

Good to hear all that, thanks. No issue with calving them? He seems ok for calving difficulty.

ABitofsense · 27-09-2020 05:50PM

Yeah I had him on a number of heifers (calving at ~24months) but only 1 hard pull. Easy enough but I would only put him on biggesh heifers going forward. I've put him on 10 cows this year

SuperTeeJay · 27-09-2020 08:55PM

SuperTeeJay wrote: »

Has anyone ever tried or had any success using CWI 90% sexed semen on heifers?

So I tried cwi sexed semen on three heifers.
All are Ai'd 7 weeks now and hopefully have held.They were €40/straw plus insemination free.

Hard Knocks · 27-09-2020 09:14PM

SuperTeeJay wrote: »

So I tried cwi sexed semen on three heifers.
All are Ai'd 7 weeks now and hopefully have held.They were €40/straw plus insemination free.

Do you inseminate 12 hours after standing heat as per non sexed?

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