Martin Brødbæk
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Jul 18
Uman sold
We have today sold Bloksdal Uman (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal MiLady). He is a full brother to Bloksdal Special Lady, who we have exhibited several times at shows and who, among other things, got 24 points for the local show in Hjørring, Landsskuet (the national show) and Kimbrerskuet in 2022. He has been …
Jul 09
Denmark’s best Charolais heifer has had a half-sister.
We have a new calf. Our cow, Bloksdal Opal (Cristal-DK x Bloksdal Hæmatit), who at the Kimbrerskuet 2023 got 23p, won her group and became the show’s fifth best Charolais animal, has given birth to a heifer calf. It was behind her when we came down to the meadow to bring her home. Opal is …
Jul 07
Home from the National Show 2024
We are now all safe at home from a lovely national show. This year national show was characterized by the very changeable weather, with large rain showers and wind much of the time, but also a little summer weather.As publish, we participated with three catalog numbers, which all did well.First animal in the arena on …
Jul 01
Visit from France
As a prelude to this year’s national show, this week we had visitors from the Charolais highlands, France. It is the parents of the well-known breeder and judge Pierre-Yves Sallé, who have Elevage Sallé Charolais, who have visited us. They have driven their motorhome to Denmark. Here they had, among other things, a desire to …
Jun 26
The Nation Show 24
In one week we will go to the show again, this time The National Show, Landsskuet in Herning.This year we have chosen to participate with four animals (three catalog numbers).First animal a young heifer, Bloksdal UltraBelle (Glasgow x Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET), who is from 13.08.23 and therefore comes into the heifer group from 9-12 months. …
Jun 24
Returned from local show in Hjørring
True to tradition, we have been to the local show in Hjørring. We exhibited with three animals this year and they all did well. There were 29 Charolais animals registered for the show. First animal in the arena on Friday morning was Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET (Vaillant x Anabelle). She was in a group with two …
May 05
First animal in the meadow
This week we got the first animals to graze in the meadow. It is always nice to get the animals out and on grass after a long and wet winter.Parts of the meadows are still too wet for us to let the last animals out. The potential show animals are on grass around the farm, …
Apr 29
Hoof trimming
As usual, we have had a visit from our regular hoof trimming, Fjellerad Hoof Trimming at Palle Christiansen. We do this at least once a year before the animals come to graze. We had several through the box, all of whom did well. Now we are just waiting for some better weather so that we …
Apr 12
New calf
We got a little new calf this week. It is Martin’s cow Bloksdal MiLady (Vanggaard Daddy -ET x Bloksdal Unak -ET) thathas had another calf. She also did that 333 days ago, which is a very nice calving interval. The calf is by the French bull Marechal (Izoard x Ironie), which the Danish Charolais Association …
Apr 08
Evaluation of animals
Last week we had a visit from Torben Andersen, who came and judged four 1st Calf cows and two bulls. The average for the six animals was 85.7 overall. All adult animals in our herd are now qualified, and the average is 86, which we are quite satisfied with (80 is the national average).
