Favourite breed of beef cattle

LivInt20 · 23-05-2014 03:05PM #1

What is your favourite breed of beef cattle.

Don't have to specifiy for Beef or Suckler or any other, just your own favourite breed for what ever reason.

Do feel free to add reason below.

on the river · 23-05-2014 03:56PM

LivInt20 wrote: »

What is your favourite breed of beef cattle.

Don't have to specifiy for Beef or Suckler or any other, just your own favourite breed for what ever reason.

Do feel free to add reason below.

Angus for me. Great hardy animals. Can be successfully outwintered.

I said · 23-05-2014 04:00PM

Anything that kills out well have a fierce soft spot for a good Simmental

GrandSoftDay · 23-05-2014 04:06PM

Limousin and Charolais for me .

bogman_bass · 23-05-2014 04:41PM

No Parthenaise?

Mad4simmental · 23-05-2014 04:57PM

I'm a bit one sided by my name, but love Simmental cows and cross with a good bb or ch and I reckon your on a winner. Always had a soft spot for aa we even have two in the middle of the Simmentals for a mix. They will probably breed the freezer meat every year! :-)

allbuiz · 23-05-2014 05:15PM

A docile Limousin, hard wearing and doesn't need to expensively fed. Hardy calves that get sucking quickly.

foxy farmer · 23-05-2014 05:44PM

A herd of PB Herefords out on grass in summer is always a fine sight. Docile (mostly) and resilent. Had mostly red and white here when I started but shifted to Simmental to improve grading. Most cowboy films featuring cattle drives had herefords.

Oldtree · 23-05-2014 06:25PM

My wifes uncle always had charlies and I enjoy looking at them.

whelan2 · 23-05-2014 06:28PM

ANGUS OF COURSE

Kovu · 23-05-2014 06:34PM

I'd like to start a new breed of milky LMs crossed with boney CH.
A Limolais herd.
Who's with me:D

Closest to that would be blonde soooooo other continental for me please!

on the river · 23-05-2014 07:20PM

.Kovu. wrote: »

I'd like to start a new breed of milky LMs crossed with boney CH.
A Limolais herd.
Who's with me:D

Closest to that would be blonde soooooo other continental for me please!

Too soft.can't beat the British breeds for toughness

Zr105 · 23-05-2014 07:48PM

.Kovu. wrote: »

I'd like to start a new breed of milky LMs crossed with boney CH.
A Limolais herd.
Who's with me:D

Closest to that would be blonde soooooo other continental for me please!

Go the opposite way! Charlois cow out of a good square fresian and put a lim bull on them, cows have size and buckets of milk, and the calves fall out and hit the ground running!

Have a slight soft spot for Simmental or else as above or limxfr cows. But its a
Lim bull, all thats ever been here that i remember have been lim and id think it hard to go away from them really!

TUBBY · 23-05-2014 07:52PM

Ones that leave a few pound

As far as breed go if had to choose one, Hereford.

Miname · 23-05-2014 07:54PM

I like the markings of the irish moile and the speckled park.
The simmentall frame.
The limousines head
The blondes back-end
The way the charolais carries weight
The pay cheque of a good blue.

What do i cross what with first?

kelslat · 23-05-2014 08:08PM

Salers, easily calved. calves have a good growth rate.

Farmer Pudsey · 23-05-2014 08:21PM

There is no Friesians or JEX's to vote for so i will leave it. The breeds I like best are the ones that I can make money out of

Base price · 23-05-2014 08:33PM

Blonde's are my favourite breed. Used to breed them once upon a time.
I also like Angus and Shorthorn.
If I was going to keep pb cattle again I would go for Dexter or Irish Moiled just to help keep the breeds going.

nqtfarmer · 23-05-2014 09:38PM

Do blonde's offer a good return? Big, square animals but always thought hard to finish.

Robson99 · 23-05-2014 10:05PM

Charolais - Limousin cross. The best a man can get.

Base price · 23-05-2014 10:13PM

nqtfarmer wrote: »

Do blonde's offer a good return? Big, square animals but always thought hard to finish.

No harder to flesh than other continentals like LM or CH. Although with Blondes you get more for your efforts - they are longer (in general) so you have a better carcass weigh and kill out.

severeoversteer · 23-05-2014 10:58PM

kelslat wrote: »

Salers, easily calved. calves have a good growth rate.

not the easiest in the world to flesh now though, theyd have a few tonne ate by the time they have a pinch

GrandSoftDay · 23-05-2014 11:03PM

Robson99 wrote: »

Charolais - Limousin cross. The best a man can get.

Agreed, always in high demand at the weanling sales!

severeoversteer · 23-05-2014 11:08PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Agreed, always in high demand at the weanling sales!

if you walked into my yard you would see that I am an advocate of the yellow charolais

GrandSoftDay · 23-05-2014 11:13PM

severeoversteer wrote: »

if you walked into my yard you would see that I am an advocate of the yellow charolais

Stay that way too, I have a herd of red cows built up over the last few years and there's going to be a white bull running with them next year all going to plan!

mahoney_j · 23-05-2014 11:13PM

Could look at a field of little boney jex all day,fine looking ainmsls!!!!!!!
Would of always like Charolais or bb.freindvof mine has pure bred aubracs,they'd now be my favourites.hes crossing some of them with Charolais serious looking ainmsls

GrandSoftDay · 23-05-2014 11:15PM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Could look at a field of little boney jex all day,fine looking ainmsls!!!!!!!
Would of always like Charolais or bb.freindvof mine has pure bred aubracs,they'd now be my favourites.hes crossing some of them with Charolais serious looking ainmsls

Only fault I'd have of the aubrac a is they seem to breed the calves a bit short. Calves seem to bring great muscle off them alright though.

Base price · 23-05-2014 11:19PM

mahoney_j wrote: »

Could look at a field of little bonny jex all day,fine looking ainmsls!!!!!!!
Would of always like Charolais or bb.freindvof mine has pure bred aubracs,they'd now be my favourites.hes crossing some of them with Charolais serious looking ainmsls

FYP

mf240 · 23-05-2014 11:19PM

Angus and hereford for me.

exercise is the antidote · 23-05-2014 11:24PM

BBxFr cow with a blonde bull, some nice calves

Genghis Cant · 23-05-2014 11:43PM

I like Charolais cattle. We've some great stock over the years crossing PB Ch cows with Limousine and Blonde bulls.
If I was to pick a cross Ch x Ba is a super cross. Body, and power of the Ch and a bit of style and length off the Ba.

Outside of the above, one of the nicest heifers ever I laid eyes on was out of a PB Parthenaise cow by a BB bull. Pure class.

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