Beef cows

samn40 · Jun 23, 2013

I know some of you like to look at cattle, so I took this picture of some cows grazing beside the road near my home town, Portadown Northern Ireland. The meadows are very low lying and run down to the river Bann, near where it flows into Lough Neagh. The cattle are Simmental, a French breed, which are very popular with our beef farmers.
Sam

Moline_guy · Jun 23, 2013

Neat picture, thanks for posting. We run simmental cattle that looked like those back in the 80's. Big beefy cows and calves, buyers don't want those big framed cattle here anymore. The ones we had were good disposition, but calves had high birthweights and cows had to be checked often even in nice weather, in case they needed to be pulled.

timbernt · Jun 23, 2013

Very nice picture of Simmental cows. Here in America Simmental have been turned black by infusing Angus blood and it is refreshing to see Simmentals that look like Simmentals. I suspect a lot of young Simmental breeders in the U.S. wouldn't even recognize the breed.

Texasmark1 · Jun 24, 2013

Had a rancher down the road that raised them. He did a lot of AI with doner cows. Shipped animals all over Central America. He kept the blood lines pure....registered stock. Huge but gentile and the steaks.....yum yum.

Mark

Kow Farmer · Jun 24, 2013

Sam,
It's great to see cattle on nice green pastures. Great picture. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Kow Farmer Kurt

Anonymous-0 · Jun 24, 2013

Nice looking cattle

lpmm · Jun 24, 2013

Check your info where they originated . They came from Switzerland .

JRSutton · Jun 24, 2013

I don't breed them, but you're right.

I for one always thought simmentals were black.

Tx Jim · Jun 24, 2013

The first Simmental cattle that I ever saw which was back in the 70's or 80's looked very similar to the color of the ones in the photo. Nearly any breed of cattle today have some that are "black color" because they bring more per #. Who would have thought there would be black Herefords & Charolais

Mike (WA) · Jun 24, 2013

Big push of "exotic" breeds here, in the '60's into the '80's. Simmental, Charlois, Salers, Limousin, Murray Gray, etc., etc. Still some purebred breeders selling them to each other, but commercials seem to be pretty much back to blacks and black baldies. Unless they're black, or hereford, you take a beating on price at the auction.

Variety of reasons- some hard calving (Charlois), too big (many), and behavior- friend had a Salers herd, got rid of them when his grandkids got big enough to venture into the fields and had a couple of close calls. He's back to Herefords now.

Texasmark1 · Jun 24, 2013

Guy down the road that had a hundred or so all looked like yours in the picture. I don't know if I'd recognize one if black other than by size possibly.

Mark

T in NE · Jun 24, 2013

My boss got some solairs back in the day. So wild that if they decided they didn't want to go the way you wanted them to, they'd just jump over the gate they were just standing beside. Still can see the genetics in the herd but the red angus has sure calmed them down.

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