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One calf was an assisted birth. He was about 105 pounds. All the others were calved unassisted. We have heard of people using him on heifers calving down at two but personally I wouldn't use him on females that young. Whilst he appears as easy calving as any other bull I think you might get a...

The first Perfect Storm calves have arrived here in Ireland and they have exceeded all expectation. They are just like their sire -  muscle and quality to use just two adjectives. We sold a lot of semen from him last year too and the feedback from other breeders is tremendous. Storm seems to be...

[color=purple]We are still very lucky in Ireland in that we still have a large quality of semen in storage at A.I. facilities throughout the country from bulls that are full Irish in their makeup. Unfortunately due to the success of certain bloodlines the breed came to a bottleneck over here...

The assertion that the Irish Shorthorns had Galloway blood stemming from the Deerpark herd is the biggest load of twaddle. There were NO Galloway cattle worth mentioning on the island of Ireland, let alone above all places the province of Munster where the Deerpark herd was located. And Mark you...

Are you still breeding cattle Roly. I thought you had a DISPERSAL sale????????

  Didn't a lot of these embryo cattle show up as being TH carrier animals and subsequently have to be culled by the Biggars? When I saw the pedigrees of the donor sires and dams it really stood out that there were a lot of "dirty" pedigrees and the potential for carrier calves and deformed...