Beef for Dairy Sires
The beef sires featured in this section have been selected as suitable for use in dairy herds, where calving ease and gestation length are the prime considerations. The majority of the sires listed are pedigree and are also suitable for purebred use or in suckler herds.
Grahams PONCHO
Limousin
£ 8.00- Better than breed average for birth weight and calving ease
- Sold for 20,000gns in 2003; half brother held the world record price of 50,000gns
Fabb 1 RORY
Hereford - Polled
£ 9.00- Meadow Quality Superior Sire
- Average gestation length is 275 days
- Selected especially for crossing in the dairy herd
Stonmour THUNDER CLOUD
Beef Shorthorn
£ 8.00- Proven over and over again
- Great cross for dairy or commercial beef
- Shape, shape and more shape!
Stonebyres NINJA
British Blue
£ 25.00- An eye catching bull with good locomotion who is producing powerful, well muscled pedigree and commercial calves
- Ideal for pedigree and commercial breeders as he shows good breed character
- A long, mobile bull with good growth and width
Christon ELTON
Aberdeen Angus
£ 8.00- Easy calving and short gestation
- Excellent choice for dairy cows
Cockerington HERDSMAN (P)
Charolais
£ 8.00- Homozygous Polled sire, so progeny will also be polled
- Calving Ease EBV well above breed average
- Progeny are the later maturing type
Twyning Ash OSKAR
British Blue
£ 9.00- Meadow Quality Superior Sire
- Calves are fetching between £400-£500 at Sedgemoor market under 6 weeks old
- Blue roan calves born easily with average gestation length of 272 days
- Very high semen fertility
