Recent content by P.A.L

I need to send you some real good baldies. :D you'll never go back. In Finland we had Continental boom in 90' . Most of the new herds are now heading back to British based. Some do believe in continentals, but they work hard at calving season. Also all the restaurants have Angus on their menu as...

Nice calves. You don't have much snow. We have about 50cm-80cm. About the calving, I think dairy and continental breeds doesn't work well in cow herds. I prefer Angus x Hereford cross cow with terminal bull. Continental breeds need too much time to develop for breeding. Belgian blue is...

Meanwhile in Europe: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -best.html :D

This will hit us hard. Market is full of pork and milk products. Prices will go down. Let's hope this will end soon.

Thanks, Sounds familiar. We don't have it warm, but the daylight is 24 hours in the summers. Winters with out the sun feels toooo looong. I'm starting to use alfalfa in my hay mix and a bit new to this. what variety do you use? our winters are cold (-30c), I've been told that Canadian...

Your climate seems to be similar to ours. How far north your place is? Do you have dry summers? Do you grow grains? what grasses and legumes do you use at pastures and for hay?

Do you farm organic or normal methods? I think you have there excellent opportunities to run beef farm. Are areas naturally grasslands? I'm more familiar with Estonia, but i think Lithuania is quite similar, if I'm right? I think my place is about 1000km north from Lithuania and our spring is...

In France they get 250€/cow beef cow subsidies. We get 40-60€. Ich Wissen nicht wie viele du hast im deutchland. A good cow weans more than 50% of their body weight. 600kg cows 200 day old calve need to be about 300kg in my environment. Bull calves can be near 400kg when summer is warm and...

Limousin, Charolais and Blondes don't have much milk. That is why the poor udder. Also In France it's not suitable to breed heifer under 2 years old. They need to develop a year longer than normal good cattle. The most famous show breeders have cows BIG as two normal sized ranch type British...

Blondes are used mostly for crossbreeding here north. Pure Blondes cows wont work here. They eat huge amount of feed in below -20. Also they don't last long. Some extra years if bred at 3 years old. Biggest breeder here uses Hereford cows to calm down the Blonde herd... But when used as a...

For what weight and grade you will get 3,07€/kilo? Good price if for O2 standard.

European countries eat horse meat, but it's sold as beef. ;-D I thinks it's really expensive to support continental breeds and those double muscled beasts. They are heavy cattle around here. 900- 1000kg+. Especially Simmentals. Their feeding requirements and over all doing-ability is poor. Also...

We Northerner Europeans are blondes with blue eyes... We are white because of the skins ability to collect vitamin-D. Pale skin does it better. Sun shine is quite a news here. Last year only handful of sunny days and winters sun is so far away that you cant see it in the darkest months. In the...

Quite small carcasses, We need to grow them to 350 kg to get the best price. Yield also better the price, but with these grain prices, it's easier to lose less money by feeding less .

One heck of a Angus bull. I had big cows once. They ate all my money... downsizing the herd. Better results in a long run and smaller risk.