Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

This is the society's opinion

Aubracs in general are easy calved, lively and very hardy with low birthweights. I haven’t used AI on heifers but I’ve had two stock bulls run with heifers and no trouble. I was mostly AU last year and it was the easiest calving season I’ve ever had. That said i still AI’d most of my heifers with AA this year.

Ya, 2250 at 300kg. Really nice type though.

No they wouldn’t be on the same size as a LM or CH. With the right breeding they can bring good muscle get a high grade. One of my stock bulls had an NT821 gene which was a great cross on non carrier Angus/Hereford type cattle. The heifers will be more than big enough to calve down 24 months and the bull + bullock weanlings are getting good ADG but you’d be disappointed expecting LM gains.

I got into Aubracs for replacements. Fertility and calving ability are their biggest traits. Now that I’ve 20 I’m going to AI them to bigger LM and CH. I’ve a few to Shannon Stan + Grenache due in March and going to try LM Rembrandt + Rolex + Rigby and CH Recif + Omega this season.

They are also very docile animals. AI tech did a bunch of pedigrees here and said he’s never seen such quiet animals in his life.

Downsides the pedigrees are very hard to catch in heat if you aren’t using a stock bull. They often come in heat at night so most lads use a teaser bull. I’ll be syncing all my cows in future. They are short animals and slow to grow but they do make powerful cows. The bullocks I sold through the mart did well and there was really good interest in the heifers. They are slowly growing in popularity but the LM/CH/BB will bring that extra 20-40c a Kg on breed alone in the marts, sometimes regardless of condition.

There’s a lot of lads breeding them so your best bet would be to buy a weanling rather than AI and get a few bulls you wish were heifers or a different breed.

be great to see how they turn out for you so. They calving in the spring?

Powerful Proper heifer calf out of a second calver. Don't know where she brought the colour from

Serious selection of Belgian Blues.

Drumline S has some high figures, I'll be interested how the expected daughter figures look in the March evaluation.
Claddagh McCabe having two copies of Q204X is a really good guarantee for big progeny. Same with Cartonfree Unbelievable.

Spoilt for choice if you are with Dovea and I can see why people move to using them.

A great video yesterday from Dara Walton on his calvings so far. Its very interesting to see the breeding of his cows and the Dovea bulls he uses.

Cheers for the recommendations lads. I'll check those videos out.

I've some plain cows I won't be breeding replacements from. They could really do with the certainty a double gene bull brings but without the calving difficult of a blue. That's the luck of the draw with one gene unfortunately. I've a cow with an NT gene who always has heifer calves but never passes the gene on. Maybe this year she finally will.

Which limo bulls would suit tall rangey cows

go with ur Rolex or somebull. Get abit more out of them if ur dealing with pg

have to same u can still go with your Rolex and somebull. But I am very impressed with the quality of the Rembrandt calves I have. I only have two and both are heifers but have something sweet about them that would make nice heifers to keep. I haven’t used much of him since went with more terminal bulls but maybe I should have

Gamin (zgm) with Bova. Use on very milky cows.

Dovea - Drumline S1185. Glenford Sam , new bull but good breeding in him.

Munster/Pg - Rembrandt, Shannon Samurai. I've 2 calves from him, smallish thick calves but not the quietest.

I'd say any of the Tomchoice bulls would suit but I wouldn't go mad on them. Fertility doesn't seem great.