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Beef AI/Bulls MEGATHREAD

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    #5702
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Maybe. Thinking about it. What's the story with access to mart ringside?
    AFAIK u have to ring up and get a number to bid and that allows u to get in


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    #5703
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭High bike


    tanko wrote: »
    Losing leased land i think.
    This strange that they have no land of their own to continue even on a smaller scale


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    #5704
    Barron lad
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭Barron lad


    Did anyone use the new red blue in Dovea BB6942? or any thoughts on him ?


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    #5705
    Royals
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭Royals


    High bike wrote: »
    This strange that they have no land of their own to continue even on a smaller scale
    Think he has a dairy herd aswell


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    #5706
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    High bike wrote: »
    AFAIK u have to ring up and get a number to bid and that allows u to get in

    That’s my understanding aswell.


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    #5707
    ABitofsense
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭ABitofsense


    Anyone use Firefox SH4748 on hiefers? I've a LMx heifer on (calving down at 25mths) thinking of trying him or Saler Knottstown Roy.


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    #5708
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    ABitofsense wrote: »
    Anyone use Firefox SH4748 on hiefers? I've a LMx heifer on (calving down at 25mths) thinking of trying him or Saler Knottstown Roy.
    I used him on a pb shorthorn and a shx (dairy cross) heifers. The pb calved last Autumn and the other in March - both unassisted. Hardy calves that were up and sucking within 20/30 mins.


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    #5709
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    Thinking of getting a few Tomchoice Nation (Lm5611) straws for a few second caving Zag cows, looks nice with a drop of milk? Anyone have any thoughts on him.


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    #5710
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    Thinking of getting a few Tomchoice Nation (Lm5611) straws for a few second caving Zag cows, looks nice with a drop of milk? Anyone have any thoughts on him.

    I was thinking of getting a few straws myself, but my AI guy will explode if I get more straws.

    Tomschoice Nation has similar breeding (sire & grandsire the same) as Tomschoice Lexicon. Here's a Tomschoice Lexicon bull from the recent Brooklands sale.
    https://twitter.com/irishlimousin/status/1401170246598340610

    Those Tomschoice bulls wouldn't be mad on calving ease and also tend to be short in length. As ZAG would be compact too, would a more framey bull suit better. Just my thoughts.

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    #5711
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I was thinking of getting a few straws myself, but my AI guy will explode if I get more straws.

    Tomschoice Nation has similar breeding (sire & grandsire the same) as Tomschoice Lexicon. Here's a Tomschoice Lexicon bull from the recent Brooklands sale.
    https://twitter.com/irishlimousin/status/1401170246598340610



    Those Tomschoice bulls wouldn't be mad on calving ease and also tend to be short in length. As ZAG would be compact too, would a more framey bull suit better. Just my thoughts.

    Thanks Patsy, I have a few Lm2388 calves out of the Zag cows and they have a nice bit of length to them and they are very easy calved but just thought Tomchoice Nation would bring a little bit more style to the equation.


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    #5712
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I was thinking of getting a few straws myself, but my AI guy will explode if I get more straws.

    Tomschoice Nation has similar breeding (sire & grandsire the same) as Tomschoice Lexicon. Here's a Tomschoice Lexicon bull from the recent Brooklands sale.
    https://twitter.com/irishlimousin/status/1401170246598340610

    Those Tomschoice bulls wouldn't be mad on calving ease and also tend to be short in length. As ZAG would be compact too, would a more framey bull suit better. Just my thoughts.
    Did u go to Gort Patsy thought it was a dear sale


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    #5713
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,209 ✭✭✭tanko


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    Thinking of getting a few Tomchoice Nation (Lm5611) straws for a few second caving Zag cows, looks nice with a drop of milk? Anyone have any thoughts on him.

    I have three calves off Brooklands Marco this year who is an Eravelle son. Nice square calves, good shape and muscle to them and were easy calved on cows.
    They might not turn out to be the biggest animals so mightn’t be the best cross for ZAG cows.
    Have a nice Gamin heifer off a ZAG cow this year, not sure if she’d have much milk tho.
    Curaheen Earp would be a good cross on ZAG cows imo.


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    #5714
    ABitofsense
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭ABitofsense


    Base price wrote: »
    I used him on a pb shorthorn and a shx (dairy cross) heifers. The pb calved last Autumn and the other in March - both unassisted. Hardy calves that were up and sucking within 20/30 mins.

    Went with Firefox. Hasn't being a shorthorn on the farm in 30 years (so my father says). Hopefully work ok with a black LMx heifer.

    On a side note, I started using Estrotect scratch cards this year, well impressed with them.


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    #5715
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    High bike wrote: »
    Did u go to Gort Patsy thought it was a dear sale

    No, I watched it online though. Did you go?
    I have enough here anyway.

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    #5716
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭High bike


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    No, I watched it online though. Did you go?
    I have enough here anyway.
    No same as that just watched it,the commercials made some money


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    #5717
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Anto_Meath wrote: »
    Thinking of getting a few Tomchoice Nation (Lm5611) straws for a few second caving Zag cows, looks nice with a drop of milk? Anyone have any thoughts on him.

    Virtually no reliability for that milk figure. . Easy calving charolias like bivouac for them cows, very small at birth and short gestation


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    #5718
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Jss heifer calving at 24 months to a Beguin son in Dec.


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    #5719
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Ulsan off at PT calving at 24 months to the Beguin son in Nov


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    #5720
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Dickens first calver Knottown Roy heifer.


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    #5721
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Hjd heifer off a si cow in calf to beguin son stock bull for Nov


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    #5722
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭High bike


    Lovely stock,the Ulsan is a beauty


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    #5723
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    High bike wrote: »
    Lovely stock,the Ulsan is a beauty

    Shes a mad cnut. Has quietened an awful lot since she came.


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    #5724
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Rio in her breeding. Calving at 3 Yr lod in Dec to the SA. Heifer is at least 2 foot wide.


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    #5725
    High bike
    Registered Users Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭High bike


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Shes a mad cnut. Has quietened an awful lot since she came.
    what cow is she out of,the salers i have here are pure lambs


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    #5726
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Sunnyboy heifer 2 in October suppose to be in calf but saw her bulling a few weeks back.


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    #5727
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Sunnyboy heifer 2 in October suppose to be in calf but saw her bulling a few weeks back.

    Lovely stock, a perfect picture for suckler farming in ireland. The boundaries which we never get credit for look great aswell.:D


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    #5728
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Lovely stock, a perfect picture for suckler farming in ireland. The boundaries which we never get credit for look great aswell.:D

    Unfortunately at the end of that 20 acre field there is 45 apartments going in. Can't wait.


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    #5729
    DukeCaboom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭DukeCaboom


    High bike wrote: »
    what cow is she out of,the salers i have here are pure lambs

    Yer man I bought them off sticks them on a hill far away for a good bit, just no used of bedn handled shes after calming down a good bit thank god


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    #5730
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    DukeCaboom wrote: »
    Shes a mad cnut. Has quietened an awful lot since she came.
    have 3 ulsans they seem a bit gamey alright


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    #5731
    squinn2912
    Registered Users Posts: 4,679 ✭✭✭squinn2912


    Base price wrote: »
    I used him on a pb shorthorn and a shx (dairy cross) heifers. The pb calved last Autumn and the other in March - both unassisted. Hardy calves that were up and sucking within 20/30 mins.

    Just put a straw into a black lim x heifer with bb in her breeding. Looks a nice bull


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