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.
Standlynch ROCOCO
Aberdeen Angus
£ 8.00- First calves are showing great vigour
- Excellent EBV for calving ease
- Average gestation length is 280 days
Ding Valley OLIVER
British Blue
£ 8.00- Well established British Blue sire
- Has been used in several dairy herds with great success
- Calves easily born and easily reared
Bluecedar PREMIER PP
Limousin
£ 9.00- Meadow Quality Superior Sire
- Homozygous Polled sire, so his progeny will also be polled
- Selected for calving ease and short gestation
- Semen from his easy calving Polled sire Greensons Howlett has been in demand around the world
Tubridmore PRIDE
Aberdeen Angus
£ 8.00- Proven easy calver
- Will shorten gestation length by 1.3 days
Heronbrook POSEIDON
English Longhorn
£ 9.00- Proven easy calver; calves are up and sucking straight away
- Poseidon has proven fertility and good conception rates
- Junior Champion at the 2018 Northern Longhorn Society Spring Sale
Trewint HENRY
South Devon
£ 8.00- Breed leader for calving ease
- Great maternal traits
- Superb cross for commercial beef herds
Castleview GAZELLE
Limousin
£ 8.00- Proven breeder for top end commercial calves and suckler cow producer
- Carries double F94L myostatin gene
Ding Valley SPARTACUS P
British Blue
£ 8.00- New Heterozygous Polled British Blue sire
- Early calves have been born without assistance
- Should make an excellent cross on dairy cows
