New generation

[Travlr]

and then there is good taste and tenderness.

Yeah... there's that. Double muscled cattle have finer muscle fibers and are more tender. And how much fat do you really need?

 

[TexasRancher]

Yes, hot wire.

Do you use those three hot wires for perimeter fencing too? That looks like a great cost cutting advantage over barb-wire if it can keep in cattle just as good.

 

[TexasRancher]

Managed to graft back the calf to the heifer, thankfully. However, she has to be kept away from that calf, which she was so interested into as she doesn't leave it's side and forgets about her own calf.
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Today had another heifer calved. 288 days gestation, sired by blonde out of blonde cross heifer, so that makes 75% blonde heifer calf.
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Another calf is becoming a real eye catcher.
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Pictured at 11days age.

LF...I purchased several cow calenders, what a disappointment, crappy pics of unhealthy cows/calves crappy landscapes.....gosh your all your picures are so nice...there's calendar quality in them....georgous landscapes. You have a piece of paradise there.

 

[GoWyo]

Angus in general are less muscled than continental breeds, so they grade worse and at the end are less profitable than other breeds here. That's mainly why we stopped using angus in our herd as well.

What is the European grading system based on? Is there a marbling grade or focused on muscle yield? How thick do you cut your ribeye steaks and is cooking them to medium rare the general way to prepare them?

 

[elkwc]

So it's really about pounds per carcass as opposed to price per pound.

In the US we are being paid for lighter animals at weaning, that will marble easier... and in eastern Europe (and perhaps most of Europe) they are being paid to produce meat.

Here we get paid for pounds at wearing. The heavier calves make more money her in a normal year.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

What is the European grading system based on? Is there a marbling grade or focused on muscle yield? How thick do you cut your ribeye steaks and is cooking them to medium rare the general way to prepare them?

Two grades-muscularity and external fat cover. For muscularity grades are letters - S E U R O P, for fat cover numbers from 1 to 5, with 1 being the leanest.


We do not have any steak traditions. In my country beef isn't even that popular, especially with an older generation. We even usually like our meat to be well done and meat is mostly used in other kind of meals.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Another heifer calved this morning. 295 days gestation, parthenaise sired heifer. Heifer herself is blonde from limx cow, was a heifer's calf too.
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Have two more incalf heifers. Both will calve much later. Will be the last ones to calve this year. So far from 9 calved heifers, one is in the cull list as she didn't had any milk. Other are doing a good job with their calves and some have been already AI'ed and they went silent.

To give a little update on this heifer. Already has one month old second calf. Heifer calf again, but blonde sired this time.


Her last year born heifer is looking really promising!

 

[GoWyo]

Two grades-muscularity and external fat cover. For muscularity grades are letters - S E U R O P, for fat cover numbers from 1 to 5, with 1 being the leanest.
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We do not have any steak traditions. In my country beef isn't even that popular, especially with an older generation. We even usually like our meat to be well done and meat is mostly used in other kind of meals.

Thank you for that explanation. Very different markets that we target compared to your market. My grandparents (Volga Deutsch first generation that grew up in the USA) had steaks cut 1/2" thick and grandma fried them in the skillet til they were well done.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Do you use those three hot wires for perimeter fencing too? That looks like a great cost cutting advantage over barb-wire if it can keep in cattle just as good.

Two wires for summer pastures, three wires for winter.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

One of the last heifers calved this morning. Calf sired by the last lim bull. Tiny heifer calf.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

The last one finally.


Not the easiest one though. Heifer didn't want to let us help and she wasn't progressing, so after some work managed to get her into a pen and get the calf out. Bull calf sired by the last lim herd bull.

 

[redcowsrule33]

Two things I look forward to in calving season: the first one and the last one. Glad it turned out alright. What is the breeding on the cow?

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Two things I look forward to in calving season: the first one and the last one. Glad it turned out alright. What is the breeding on the cow?

Me too.
Piedmontese sired out of 87% lim cow.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Bright and strong calf.

 

[redcowsrule33]

Nice pair. With his shoulders I can see why she had a little trouble. Very pretty cow!

 

[lithuanian farmer]

A small update on breeding heifers. 7 out of 9 went silent after the first synchronization. One heifer had repeated twice already.

Around 80% lim, incalf to sexed male charolais.

Limxbluexcharx incalf to easy calving charolais.

On the left- blondexlim, incalf to blonde. On the right- charolais cross, incalf to easy calving charolais.

Lim cross, incalf to blonde.

My favorite, but real hard to catch a good shot of her... Mainly lim, granddaughter of the previous heifer's dam, incalf to parthenaise.

7/8lim, incalf to french lim. This one will be sold with other four incalf heifers (not in pics) for our friends.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Another heifer for sale. 75% lim

75% lim, incalf to french lim. This one will stay here.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Can't get enough of this calf! Turned four months old two days ago. Very promising start for his dam. If she keeps producing similar quality calves each year, she has many years ahead of her.


She set a pretty high standart for future first calvers

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Have weighed our breeding heifers today and five left to their new home.
This one is the heaviest- 1644lbs.

The second heaviest is polled whitish yellow heifer- 1505lbs. An average weight is 1301lbs.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

This year pregnant heifers group will calve down quite fast. Due from May 3rd to 19th. Already done a sellection for the new group. 9 will be sold as incalf to the same farmer as the 5 ones last year.
Some of the heifers for this year's AI:


Two blonde sired girls. Both will be big when mature, but the red one is already the biggest in this group.

Bluex angus, the only daughter of the cow, which had triplets.


Parthenaise sired, one out of limx cow, another out of blondex heifer.

87% lim, this will be sold.

Same lim sire as the previous one's, out of angusx, will be sold as well.

Limx out of limxchar, for sale too.

Limx, for sale.