Calving 2026

[lithuanian farmer]

Another heifer. Born at 285 days, sired by blonde, out of charx third calver.

 

[Travlr]

Another heifer. Born at 285 days, sired by blonde, out of charx third calver.
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Did you put weights on her horns? Or did they grow that way naturally?

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Did you put weights on her horns? Or did they grow that way naturally?

Naturally

 

[Ky hills]

Naturally

I had a purebred Charolais cow with horns like that too. Hers had to be cut back because they were more curved inward and were growing into her head.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

I had a purebred Charolais cow with horns like that too. Hers had to be cut back because they were more curved inward and were growing into her head.

There was a cow with similar horns on her mom's side, so probably it came from there. Charolais x as well.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Quick update on current calves, while on the wait for the new ones- 9 due this month.
Month old pure lim heifer:



Started using limousines less in the past couple years. The main reason being that weanling groups with more limx calves are harder to work with and in general are more lively, more reactive and far more dramatic. They have good performance in other areas, but working with them at younger age is sometimes way too stressfull for us and for them. Can see huge difference now when have a group of 20 weanling heifers and 5 are limx. There usually are like 5-6 others breeds in the same group and all are way more easier to work with. Very rarely a limx calf is as calm while being handled, as other breeds. Newborns have an instinct to run away from day one as well. This year all cows were calved inside so far and this heifer, being the only lim, was the only one trying to run away all the time. Her mom is very nice tempered, but we had her since she was 6months old.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Two months old bluex heifers. Black one 50%, white- 75%.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

It's kind of difficult to say a calf is good or not at birth. But that calf looks high quality to me.

8 days today. Yeah, she is an eye catcher.

 

[gcreekrch]

Limo cattle in North America generally have the same temperament. It is said the only reason to own Salers is to break them to saddle to catch Limos.

 

[Travlr]

Limo cattle in North America generally have the same temperament. It is said the only reason to own Salers is to break them to saddle to catch Limos.

Ha... I think people selling other breeds don't like lim's and have made up a lot of those stories. I've never owned any Saler so can't comment of those, but my Limousin were as docile as any other breeds. Of those I have owned, I'd say the black Angus were more problem than anything else.

 

[GoWyo]

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Ha... I think people selling other breeds don't like lim's and have made up a lot of those stories. I've never owned any Saler so can't comment of those, but my Limousin were as docile as any other breeds. Of those I have owned, I'd say the black Angus were more problem than anything else.

Had limousine in the late 1970s and I to the 1980s. They weren't mean, but some were pretty flighty. They got bred to EXT in the mid-1990s. That could be a volatile cross

 

[gcreekrch]

Ha... I think people selling other breeds don't like lim's and have made up a lot of those stories. I've never owned any Saler so can't comment of those, but my Limousin were as docile as any other breeds. Of those I have owned, I'd say the black Angus were more problem than anything else.

I’ve had enough xbred cows and feeders calves to have the experience. The worst was a Limo sired heifer out of a Guerney x Hereford cow. She followed my wife under the tractor when she was doctoring her calf at 10 days old. 45 years ago and we talk about it like it was yesterday still.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Worst character I saw in cattle were from Angus and Lims. Have one client, who has pure lims, and truthfully don't really want to see him calling as his cows are very reactive and will sometimes attack while trying to move them where you want.

We've been using different breeds for years. Lims take the biggest part of the herd's blood %. Can pet all cows, AI them with only a bucket of meal, so consider our herd well behaved. Every year have calves by maybe 6 different breeds. Can say for certain that calves groups with fewer limx calves are more relaxed and are easier to work with. Especially heifers. Animal can be very docile, but once you try to move it somewhere you want or close into a pen it can become very lively. Had one 75% lim cow, which was pet friendly but would start attacking other cows if you put her in a closed pen with others.
And I notice the same result every year while working calves and yearlings. Lively calf is either sired by lim, or out of lim cow. They just get stressed out quicker and react more.

 

[Ky hills]

Ha... I think people selling other breeds don't like lim's and have made up a lot of those stories. I've never owned any Saler so can't comment of those, but my Limousin were as docile as any other breeds. Of those I have owned, I'd say the black Angus were more problem than anything else.

In the late 80’s-early 90’s when I had registered Charolais, my biggest competition wasn’t from other Charolais breeders it was from Limousins. They came on to the scene in a big way and were extremely hot commodities for a while.
Then started hearing all the stories. There’s definitely something there. I had a neighbor that got into purebred Limousins. He had some good looking cattle and I think most were pretty decent disposition according to him, but he told me about buying a cow calf pair, and it took them two weeks to get the pair up to load.
I’ve not had a lot of experience with Limousins but I do really like that muscular look that the ones from that time period had.
I have bought a few Limousin feeders ( that’s what we call stockers here).
One time bought a group of I believe 8 heifers both some red some black.
When I bring in new calves, I keep them in the barn for a few days. Some of those calves were absolutely crazy trying to jump over the gates and everything else. The worst ones were some of the black ones. I loaned some of those back up and re-sold them and a loss just to get them off the farm so that they wouldn’t make everything else crazy. The other calves settled down pretty good. I really liked those red ones and kind of always regretted selling them. I’ve always wondered how they would have done as cows.
I did buy a yearling red Limousin bull some years back. I went to look with the intention of getting a black one as we have about half our cows that are red.
After looking their bulls over, the only red they had in the group stood out to me as the best one by far, so I got the red one.
He was without a doubt the calmest best natured bull I’ve ever had of any breed.
His calves were pretty calm as well. I also had an older Hereford bull at the time. He could be on the flighty side at times but was very manageable with us.
A percentage of the Hereford bull’s calves each year would be bat crap crazy wild, so over all my Limousin sired calves were among the better calves disposition wise.
When I told my friend and neighbor that I’d bought a Limousin bull, he reached out and felt my forehead and asked if I was feeling alright.
His family had bought Limousin bulls back in the 80’s and they said they had to go through their cattle on horse back with one of them.
I’ve also heard people say that some bulls would be fine themselves but their calves could be crazy. I’ve seen some of that with Angus.
One of the local vets used to say that if he won the lottery he was going to buy up all the Limousins within his work radius to get rid of them so he wouldn’t have to work with them.
Another vet had a similar disdain for the old time red and white Simmentals. He said they spent their life looking as though they were sick and probably were, then there was the calving issues with them.

 

[GoWyo]

One thing Limousin cattle do well is hustle for forage on big western allotment pastures. The Angus and others like to hang out on the creek bottoms and small meadows, but the Limousin cattle would get up on the ridges and upper hillsides and work the uplands harder, which was a good thing.

 

[Travlr]

In the late 80’s-early 90’s when I had registered Charolais, my biggest competition wasn’t from other Charolais breeders it was from Limousins. They came on to the scene in a big way and were extremely hot commodities for a while.
Then started hearing all the stories. There’s definitely something there. I had a neighbor that got into purebred Limousins. He had some good looking cattle and I think most were pretty decent disposition according to him, but he told me about buying a cow calf pair, and it took them two weeks to get the pair up to load.
I’ve not had a lot of experience with Limousins but I do really like that muscular look that the ones from that time period had.
I have bought a few Limousin feeders ( that’s what we call stockers here).
One time bought a group of I believe 8 heifers both some red some black.
When I bring in new calves, I keep them in the barn for a few days. Some of those calves were absolutely crazy trying to jump over the gates and everything else. The worst ones were some of the black ones. I loaned some of those back up and re-sold them and a loss just to get them off the farm so that they wouldn’t make everything else crazy. The other calves settled down pretty good. I really liked those red ones and kind of always regretted selling them. I’ve always wondered how they would have done as cows.
I did buy a yearling red Limousin bull some years back. I went to look with the intention of getting a black one as we have about half our cows that are red.
After looking their bulls over, the only red they had in the group stood out to me as the best one by far, so I got the red one.
He was without a doubt the calmest best natured bull I’ve ever had of any breed.
His calves were pretty calm as well. I also had an older Hereford bull at the time. He could be on the flighty side at times but was very manageable with us.
A percentage of the Hereford bull’s calves each year would be bat crap crazy wild, so over all my Limousin sired calves were among the better calves disposition wise.
When I told my friend and neighbor that I’d bought a Limousin bull, he reached out and felt my forehead and asked if I was feeling alright.
His family had bought Limousin bulls back in the 80’s and they said they had to go through their cattle on horse back with one of them.
I’ve also heard people say that some bulls would be fine themselves but their calves could be crazy. I’ve seen some of that with Angus.
One of the local vets used to say that if he won the lottery he was going to buy up all the Limousins within his work radius to get rid of them so he wouldn’t have to work with them.
Another vet had a similar disdain for the old time red and white Simmentals. He said they spent their life looking as though they were sick and probably were, then there was the calving issues with them.

Yeah, I've said it before but I'll say it again. There was a LImousin bull that was wildly popular in those early days, and he was being used by EVERYONE. And he and his calves were wonderful and docile and you just couldn't ask for anything better... but his grandchildren were NUTS. For some reason the problems jumped a generation and they were a real problem. I don't remember what the name of that bull was, but I never had any of his genetics. I got my purebred animals from O'Brian Farms and their foundation bull was Rousseau, and I got to see him up close and personal. Those people were great to work with.

 

[Ky hills]

Yeah, I've said it before but I'll say it again. There was a LImousin bull that was wildly popular in those early days, and he was being used by EVERYONE. And he and his calves were wonderful and docile and you just couldn't ask for anything better... but his grandchildren were NUTS. For some reason the problems jumped a generation and they were a real problem. I don't remember what the name of that bull was, but I never had any of his genetics. I got my purebred animals from O'Brian Farms and their foundation bull was Rousseau, and I got to see him up close and personal. Those people were great to work with.

I don’t know know if true or not, but from what I’ve heard the early importations of Limousin bulls and semen from France was not the picks of the litter from a disposition standpoint.
I don’t know anything about Limousin pedigrees,
I do know some about Angus pedigrees from some years ago and can say there are definitely some individual bulls that I absolutely don’t want to see in a pedigree just because of disposition issues.

 

[GoWyo]

I don’t know know if true or not, but from what I’ve heard the early importations of Limousin bulls and semen from France was not the picks of the litter from a disposition standpoint.
I don’t know anything about Limousin pedigrees,
I do know some about Angus pedigrees from some years ago and can say there are definitely some individual bulls that I absolutely don’t want to see in a pedigree just because of disposition issues.

I like to see EXT a couple generations back. Interesting thing is Leachman Right Time, a son of EXT was a pretty docile bull and his progeny seem to be the same.

 

[Travlr]

I like to see EXT a couple generations back. Interesting thing is Leachman Right Time, a son of EXT was a pretty docile bull and his progeny seem to be the same.

What is EXT?

 

[Ky hills]

What is EXT?

A very polarizing Angus bull. Known for siring good maternal qualities in his descendants but also some very crazy descendants.