We would normally run Angus with the cows to clean up but I used a few easy calving HE bulls from AI a couple of years ago at the tail end of the season. Nice calves but getting the head out was their biggest problem.
And the Angus bull told you all this
Did you get yourself a crate of craft beers as well
We had one with Canadian blood,the Fecker was a cow killer,luckily we never used him on heifers.
Was a man at market talking very highly of Salers recently!
I bought mine from a chap with a pure herd,went in a pen with 20 young bulls and they were very quite and calm,all his stock were the same,nothing has come near my Fleckvieh bull for being stone mad here,well accept Limmies but that’s a given.
Be very careful with Saler suckler cows. They are extremely good mothers and are very protective of their calves. My father's started suckling cows years ago with a Saler bull. Bull himself was a smasher and very quiet. He kept all heifers more or less and they all grew into great big suckler cows themselves in time. Some of them were as quiet as lambs and were super cows and were with us for years after. Others went absolutely insane for a week after calving, they would kill you, kill any other cow or calf that came near them, etc for that one week after calving. Going in to do a navel of a calf was an operation that a Navy Seal team would need backup for. To be fair to my father, every time one of them did this, he marked them down for culling and they didn't calve them again. The biggest plus for them is their pelvis, they would calve a rhino, of all breeds their pelvis is biggest apparently hence why they generally calve on their own. Another little known fact about them, is that even though they do not look like they have a great bag of milk under them, what milk they do have is supposed to be very high in constituents which is why their weaning ratio is generally very impressive.
