Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

I agree I thought it was very good also. She had great things to say about omega and Ricky. I would agree with her on that. They have great things to say about octopus the blue bull aswell along with Edison

Put Manclaux on your heifers, super bull, the heifer won’t even know she has calved

I’ve used Matteo, he’s easy calving, got a small round Angus at 20 months that did pretty good with the AA bonus. Fine for a heifer calving at 24 months so don’t expect a big animal for finishing. My tech couldn’t get straws from him this year. I used Domino and Tower Twomey instead. You have a lot of options with easy calving Saler as well.

I’ve used Red Pepper before too. Good calves but they came big for me, out of cows rather than heifers. Maybe I fed them too much. Good calves alright.

Is Manclaux that easy @tanko? Is he fairly consistent for you? I have Sligo Valentine straws alright. But never used him yet.

I can’t imagine how a bull could be any easier calved than him, even easier than Knottown Roy who is very easy too. He is consistent, used him a few years ago and have two real nice calves off Manclaux this year, both bulls unfortunately but he brings more shape than Roy, they’d be a bit smaller tho. Calves off both bulls are quiet too. I wouldnt put anything other than a Saler on heifers, great peace of mind at calving time wirh them.

Don’t know anything about Valentino.

Have a few cows in calf to Glenmore Alex for the spring, will be interesting to see them hopefully.

only used sales ones and all four where easy calved roy calves very happy with them in fairness. I have 2 of the ai'ed now to Rembrandt. do you put sales back on saler heifers or do you go something different? I went lim just to add abit of style there lacking

I’d still put a Saler on a half Saler heifer, a 3/4 bred Saler is a nice animal especially if you get a heifer and go with a Limousin and maybe a Charolais then.

How do you find conception rates to the sexed straws, is there more chance of a repeat using them??

I sell a few 16 month Saler bullocks every year in August or September,they make much the same as Limx bullocks I find. Had a 16 month old Roy bullock of a SimxLim heifer 650kgs make €2800 this year, he grew like a mushroom.

Extreme is great until it’s lying in the calving pen suffering from Rigor mortis. Of course no one put videos of them on Tic Toc or brings them to Carrick on Shannon.

Valentino heifer on the right.

first calver with saler twin bull calves. They left just shy of 5k at ten months, I was happy enough with it so I didn’t bother chasing an aa Bonus.

The sexed semen was hit and miss for me. I bought a batch of sexed straws off a lad and not one kept. I had a few smaller than I’d like but took a chance on putting them in calf so I put sexed saler and said if they kept they were kept and if not they were gone and all of those kept. Other than that I wouldn’t have a lot of experience with using sexed straws.