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Probably not to everyone's taste but this is our new herdsire, Quasi Q80. Purchased in October 2020 as a 13 month old, selected for his good carcase figures (EMA and marbling top 5%), low birthweight, average growth, good milk, good calving ease and short gestation EBVs. All the things we were...

Just some photos (I hope) of a few of our small herd. Now it is February our calves are 5 to 6 months old and enjoying plenty of grass and milk. Unlike last summer when we had a drought from November to March and had to wean early and feed out all our winter supplies of hay and silage. Pictured...

Haven't posted for awhile-winter and calving seems to have crept up. Our biggest cow-she must be all of 800kgs surpised us with twins a month ago. They were just there when we checked one morning! They weighed 36 and 38kgs-so each was the average weight of a single MG calf! She likes them both...

To continue from Backbone Ranch post, here are some of our MG calves, just weaned this week. Born in July August 2016, our early spring, they have just been weaned at 7/8 months old. We have a few of the same blood lines as BBR, so it is interesting to see how they perform in different...

Haven't posted on here for awhile, but another spring calving season is done, despite high rainfall, poor grass growth and scours! Twenty seven live, unassisted births from 26 pregnancies. If wasn't for a dose of Rotovirus going through the youngest calves in August, it would have been a good...

I haven't logged in for awhile, or I would have posted this as a "pink" entry if I had seen it in time!! Peri, our new Labrador puppy ( bred in NZ from American parents) The pink background is wrapped baleage! The manufacturers of the wrap donate a portion of each sale for the Breast cancer...

As calving and lambing is underway down here in NZ I thought I would post a few of our new calves of the season, for those that like calfpictures. Our small herd of 30 cows started calving 3 weeks ago today, 17 down, 13 to go! We lost the first calf, a backwards calf to a 2 year old. Only 59lbs...

We think he is pretty good, but as I read in another thread, that may be a disease called Barn blindness! He was born 4th August, a good weight-48kgs, which I think is around 105lbs, but he was his mothers 12th calf, all of them unassisted, and the first born when she was 23 months old. Note, we...

I am posting some photos of our new sire and cautiously await comment! Now a few points to remember, it is late winter here and he is still in his winter coat, we don't house cattle here, we don't grain feed and he has just arrived off the truck from the AI centre where he left his deposit as...

Just been reading through the White Angus thread-so thought you might like to see some MG's! No breed other than Angus allowed to breed up the NZ version, and that was 40 years ago. Here is one of our unweaned calves, born 3rd August 09. We are hoping to sell him at an All breeds Bull sale...

Well calving has finished and spring is meant to be here, but today is wet and 6C and it's snowing in the hills. We finished the calving this week in our little herd, with 14 bulls and 14 heifers, all unassisted and most unseen. I like to keep an eye on the 2yr heifers as they sometimes need a...

High summer down here and our local agricultural Show was held over the weekend. Here is our cow and calf, she won the All breeds cow with calf at foot class, beat a 2 year old Simmental. She is a 6 year old with her 5th calf. The calf was born 4th August and on 15th Jan weighed 313kgs- about...

I know I am probably going to get a few wry comments about the lack of condition! But our local country Show was yesterday and here is our boy Bingo. Champion male All Breeds beef animal! He is a late July 06 calf and a Yearling in our classes, ie born since 1 June 2006 He is entirely grass fed...

We have just started halter training some calves to take to our local show this coming Saturday. They are July and August 07 born and still on their mothers. They got halters put on for the first time 23rd Dec. They have nothing but milk and grass, and a bit of old hay whilst tied in the yards...

Just thought I would post a picture of some of our spring crop of calves. Calving all but finished-two late mated left to go. Twenty seven unassisted and mainly unobserved births in 8 weeks-and all shades of light silver to black and all growing very well! Only problem is, 19 heifer calves and...

Just thought I'd put up some animals of a different colour from red or black for you. Here are a few from our current crop of calves. Firstly a month old calf, last September, and the same calf with his dam in March this year a month before weaning. A 10 month old heifer last month, by the...