Thread: Wagyu calves

some of the hype will possibly come from 5star feedlot beef...basically cattle beast eats ,shits n sleeps...doesnt need to walk far so just grows like stink,all feed is brought to them so no stress or strains,no excess excercise,just eat n grow fat.got given a 4x4 log of that stuff some years back,4"x4" about 2 foot long...eye watering price to buy and mouth watering on BBQ.......and I dont really like beef,much prefer venison.

I got a "white" Galloway ( I put white in quotes since it was actually black), as a pet/house cow but it was mad as a meat axe. Jumping fences, and after chasing the TB testing guy out of the yards ( he declared it " too dangerous to test"), I decided it wasn't coming out of the yards alive. A quick call to the home kill guy and an hour later I gave it a 30/30 pill to chew on just before the homekill guy turned up, since I knew if it saw him it would be over the top of the yards and stampeding across the paddocks. Some of you guys will know the look, head up high, tail up and a super mad look in it's eye like it's gonna run over everyone and everything. Anywho as the guy was skinning and gutting he kept going on about what a great eater it was going to be. Well yep, marbling and great fat levels and that was just on grass. Never again, if I go house cow again I will stick to a jersey. Lesson learned

Originally Posted by rugerman

I got a "white" Galloway ( I put white in quotes since it was actually black), as a pet/house cow but it was mad as a meat axe. Jumping fences, and after chasing the TB testing guy out of the yards ( he declared it " too dangerous to test"), I decided it wasn't coming out of the yards alive. A quick call to the home kill guy and an hour later I gave it a 30/30 pill to chew on just before the homekill guy turned up, since I knew if it saw him it would be over the top of the yards and stampeding across the paddocks. Some of you guys will know the look, head up high, tail up and a super mad look in it's eye like it's gonna run over everyone and everything. Anywho as the guy was skinning and gutting he kept going on about what a great eater it was going to be. Well yep, marbling and great fat levels and that was just on grass. Never again, if I go house cow again I will stick to a jersey. Lesson learned

we have them here "pandas" the farm staff call them..beautiful animals and good to handle...as calves they fight you for two days then latch onto teat and stay on like limpet..tongue is different to dairy stock,harder and more pointy,they do well on rough graizing from all accounts...the older bulls not unlike belgium blue in muscle tone....pandas because of the black nose,ears and huge eye lashes....seriously cute calves.... never heard of black galloways,either white or banded yes...but not black....

Ha ha, home kill guys say that to all their clients.
I'll stick with Angus, Angus x although we did one MG and it was excellent.
First few we ever did never made it into our freezer - the beef price was just too good.

Just get some Pitt Island sheep and beef becomes peasant food in comparison

Will find out next year, running a team of belty bulls with a herd at the moment

you fellas shoul look into stats for them ones they had in late 80s...LIC were doing it out of hamilton,ruakura think it was......always stuck in my mind just how easily the heifers handled calving,others spoken too said the same. If I remember rightly the first cross bulls were used on heifers and the older cows had pure straws to get the bulls,the heifers went over seas....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you fellas shoul look into stats for them ones they had in late 80s...LIC were doing it out of hamilton,ruakura think it was......always stuck in my mind just how easily the heifers handled calving,others spoken too said the same. If I remember rightly the first cross bulls were used on heifers and the older cows had pure straws to get the bulls,the heifers went over seas....

Want me to find out what they were md mum was a district manager for lic 30 years of service b4 she retired

Originally Posted by Padox

Want me to find out what they were md mum was a district manager for lic 30 years of service b4 she retired

sounds like terindakiss...look like branhams...calves were beautiful red/brown/black...... Im not in dairy farming anymore but its always bugged me why folks didnt keep using these for heifers...zero calving issues just HAS to be desireable thing to pursue.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

sounds like terindakiss...look like branhams...calves were beautiful red/brown/black...... Im not in dairy farming anymore but its always bugged me why folks didnt keep using these for heifers...zero calving issues just HAS to be desireable thing to pursue.

The species name for European type breeds (Angus, Hereford etc) is Bos taurus, Eastern breeds like Brahman are Bos indicus, that will be where the name Taurindicus for the crossbred came from.

The only Red Devon I have seen was Big Red who lived at Owlcatraz when that place was still open. Allegedly the biggest steer in the southern hemisphere. He was lame and still let me scratch him. I used 14 Wagyu straws over our Jersey herd this year, I'll tell you about it in 8 1/2 months time...

I would say 30% of our x bred dairy that have wagyu end up assisted calvings, all to different degreees. a little less this year but we put in extra measures that helped. Our wagyu calves were all very close size to the calf pictured earlier in the thread. We even had a horse of a jersey x calf this year that was so stunning first light took him with the wagyu. That was probably one of the most difficult calvings we had in terms of size, I actually cried while calving her!
I would have thought BB couldn’t be much worse than that surely. I suppose I just hate the waste of sending calves on the truck at the end of calving. We are using Angus straws until the SG dairy start but Angus seem to flood the market every year.

Originally Posted by Chelsea

I would say 30% of our x bred dairy that have wagyu end up assisted calvings, all to different degreees. a little less this year but we put in extra measures that helped. Our wagyu calves were all very close size to the calf pictured earlier in the thread. We even had a horse of a jersey x calf this year that was so stunning first light took him with the wagyu. That was probably one of the most difficult calvings we had in terms of size, I actually cried while calving her!
I would have thought BB couldn’t be much worse than that surely. I suppose I just hate the waste of sending calves on the truck at the end of calving. We are using Angus straws until the SG dairy start but Angus seem to flood the market every year.

30% is a horrible figure, probably a good enough reason to avoid them for this farmer! I like low input farming and quiet animals.

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

30% is a horrible figure, probably a good enough reason to avoid them for this farmer! I like low input farming and quiet animals.

Yeah only seemed to be the wagyu but we found other factors that contributed to it also. Went a lot smoother this year. Our cows tend to get very fat very easy pre calving and have big calves.

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

30% is a horrible figure, probably a good enough reason to avoid them for this farmer! I like low input farming and quiet animals.

My dad ran a herd of 600 Angus cows. No assistance. Calve or die. Majority calved. Only ever lost a couple.


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