Bull Beef - Quality of meat

wagra dexters · Post by **wagra dexters** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:10 am

That is the option that has been suggested by Graham occasionally. Must be a man thing.

Seriously, even if your limo friend just had a trial group, I hope he will try the vacss or drench, because it had such a dramatic effect here. The cows are two by the same outcross sire, and the third with an outcross damline. They are unique cows within the herd, which may have something to do with them having a greater need of a some trace element perhaps.

Going back over old records, I find that the only bull weight we have is an 11 yo that was 266.8 hook weight. He got very good money for export meat, and we were told they like old bull as it absorbs more water as mince.

justmalc · Post by **justmalc** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:03 am

Hi Everyone,

Langley End Galantia has now been sold - thanks again Mark for such an invaluable site.

I'm afraid I won't be able to give an update on the quality of bull beef.

However, I have two heifers up for sale and, given the fall in prices and the apparent glut in cattle for sale, I have this week birth notified my first heifer. I believe that we should be butchering far more heifers both to protect the quality of the breed and to re-balance the market which now has heifers being worth more as beef than as breeding animals.

Thanks again Mark.

Justmalc.

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:20 pm

Clive, funny you should mention Limos just now. I had a couple of cattle (steer and a heifer) hauled by local guy to the abattoir and I went along for the ride (what a sad social life I have!). We stopped to pick up a cow and I guess I am just used to Dexters as she was truly HUGE. And really wild. Very scary to watch the guys trying to load her. Turned out she was a Limo cross (with Holstein I think). The hauler must have laughed at my little guys as I haltered and led my animals into the truck. When we got to the abattoir, that cow refused to leave the truck and at one point, charged the butcher who was helping unload. My guys didn't want to get out either but were so gentle in comparison.

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:45 pm

A few years ago when a Dexter cow lost her calf she took to a limo cross heifer calf and reared it to a very good size (towering over the Dexters) when she was sold it was a Dexter youngster who led her into the trailer, and then nipped out quick. Was this a good turn to a friend or a 'let's get this lump out of our life once and for all' ?