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limousin or belgiun blue

15-03-2013 03:03PM

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zetorman

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we have about 60 cows.i am thinking about buying a limousin ERE bull or belguin blue EMPIRE bull.which will be the best for muscle?

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#2 15-03-2013 03:09PM

vanderbadger

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dont know the answer to that but timestis has an ere bull to sell i think

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#3 15-03-2013 04:00PM

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zetorman wrote: »

we have about 60 cows.i am thinking about buying a limousin ERE bull or belguin blue EMPIRE bull.which will be the best for muscle?

If it's muscle you want, you don't have to get hard calving bulls like the ones you mentioned. There's a premier limousin sale on in Roscrea on Monday.
If it was me I'd be going for a WGE bull, 4.5% calving and 143 for muscle. ERE is 20% calving and 133 muscle.Why bring trouble on yerself?

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