Started here today. Only brought her in from field yesterday. Heifer calf.
mine arrived Christmas Day just after dinner thankfully! Drumcrow tribesman heifer calf off a Hereford/angus heifer. Tried to murder the calf the first day or so but all settled now thankfully! Can put the feet up now till the next ones in April!
We had a heifer calve 27 Dec., a week early, heifer calf. Great mother with her calf. She broke into the bull last March. The main herd calving late Feb/March.
First pure Parthenaise calf for us. Calved today. Sired by Numero1 GD, born at 285 days, heifer calf. Was trying to arrive upside down, so had to give a helping hand.
Nice looking outfit, did you import the morther?
Yes,11 heifers in total from France in November of 2023.
@golodge the very best of luck with them. I haven't got any but they do appear to be a very interesting breed.
Thank you. Happy so far with them.
If you want to breed top top e grade Belgian blues get parthenaise cows. They calve like an Angus. No matter how good the cliffs they will get them out. Great cows
How do they bind with other breeds eg CH & LM?
Parth x out of limxangusxbluex dairy heifer. Around 1,5months old.
Parthx blondex lim xchar pregnant heifer. Will have parthenaise calf this year.
Have crossed them for abit. Overall nice animals. Easy calving as well. Had to assist only once for heifer, which had a bigger size bull calf. Thin bones as well.
lovely story @golodge, would you put a CH bull on a PT dam?
Yeah, why not. Currently only using PT on 50% females to get 75% calves, but in the future might do some crossing.
Fiston bull off vulain cow.Char crosses well with them and usually brings a yellow /white colour.
Super outfit, do you have many PT cows. Are they better than other breeds for calving (ie as good as a SA)
Only have 3 cows but have lims cows bred off the parths. No issues calving so far with them.Maiiny bred to charolais and lims without any issues.Bring more muscle to their calves as they grow than a SA would.
First of the year here on Sunday, calved outside unassisted, unsure had calf sucked so put them in to be sure, calf had a bit of a cough and felt he was sluggish, but no temperature, gave him "calf starter" tube I'd picked up in the co-op after Christmas as a just in case, by yesterday Evening he was a different calf.
THose tubes are a great job, especially for suckler calfs
Anyone use ch4160? Had a pretty big calf from him last night, had to section, I'm afraid what I'll have with the remaining cows now, calved 287 days.
She would be a good cow
He’s very easy calving, I’d be looking at your cow management or whether there was some back breeding that may have just thrown a freak.
That’s not good to hear, CH4160 is LZFxHKI, regarded as easy calving and lots would put him on heifers, 287 is led than average for CH gestation.
Cow is on 7th calf. Calved a month earler than last year. Weaned last year's calf 2nd week oct. On adlib silage since. Would the dry period be too long?
He is a long frame and big front shoulders. Maybe could have jacked but felt was too much for both.
Cows are on silage only with minerals, might get a taste of ration for couple days to get used to moving them out to calving pen and a few days after calving.
Have him on 4 here, one already calved nice calf but mother is an sfl, and seems to throw smaller tybe calf at birth. Will have to wait and see what the next couple weeks hold I suppose
I had 3 in calf to ch4160 few years ago. 1 section and the other 2 came small calves.
Ive found that no matter what the quality is ad lib silage is far too much for a dry in calf suckler cow, especially 1 thats in a shed with no exercise. Ive started restricting silage to what theyll eat in about 30 - 40 minutes twice a day for the last few years and has made a massive difference with calving ease with no negatives with the cow.
2nd lady calved this morning. Jack assisted.thought he was big but not as big as yesterday's and once the shoulders passed with a bit of levering he was grand. Heifer a bit humpy both straight up and calf sucked himself after getting the taste.
I’d say the ad lib silage for the last three months is your problem. Whatever they eat in an hour split between morning and evening should be plenty for them
Just an observation from the photo but the dividing gate in the pen is upside down. If a cow was stretched out calving she might stick her head out through it and get caught.
Lovely calves to be fair.
I'd normally have a few bakes lined up and let them reach out to it and then pike a bit to them daily when they have cleaned the 1st bit. Suppose that is different that other year's. They wouldn't be hungry .
Gate is only like that today, only a temp job to keep the section lady away but i shoukd have noticed it, had a cow caught under a dividing gate out front during calving on the slats one time. Wears them out. Thanks
Had 1st ever section last year and has the confidence knocked out of me for calving. But suppose when both alive so maybe right decision after all. The white lad has some front shoulders in him.
Is it possible that the Ai tech made a mistake with the straw and it’s a different bull, it does happen. I left a heifer in for Ai one day and told him to put a Saler bull on her. When i came home and looked at the straw in the glove and it was the BB bull DEP, was lucky i checked it, had to inject her after and go again.
I've seen it and had it happen, but I'd trust this man, they previous lad was dangerous in that regard. I always check the straw since. I doubt it. I'll find out when the genotyping happens.
I'd normally give a saler or lim to maiden, but these heifers have gone to 30 months so felt he was OK for them. The rwd lady is half twin and her sister is die in a week of so,they are from sim bull and saler/ch cow .
