Martin’s young cow Bloksdal Special Lady (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal MiLady) has had her second calf. It was a 47 kg heifer calf after Glasgow (Apache x Dentelle).

Special Lady is from April 2, 2021 and, despite her young age, has been honored with the maximum 24 points four times in her life at various shows. Glasgow is a show bull from France and his pedigree includes names such as Bourgogne and Major. It is therefore a calf that we are very much looking forward to following. The calf will be named Bloksdal Anaïs and will be number 441.

We let the first animals into the meadow this weekend. It’s a little later this year than before due to vaccinations, but it’s great to get the animals out to pasture.

Bloksdal Charolais has again passed the requirements to be an active breeding herd in Denmark. This is the 25th time in a row that we have achieved this honor. Which we are very proud of. All 25 certificates hang in the barn. The concept of “active breeding herd” is some criteria that must be met regarding weighing, grading and use of insemination of cattle. Karsten was one of the initiators in 1999 for the establishment of this.

As usual, we have had a visit from our regular hoof trimmer, Fjellerad Hoof Trimmers by Palle Christiansen. We do this at least once a year before the animals are turned out to pasture. We had several through the box, all of whom did well. Now we are just waiting for some better weather so that we can let some animals out into the meadows.

Historically late, we have closed the possibility for the animals to go in and out. The animals were hardly ever outside in the cold weather, and they would benefit from coming in and being clipped and forming “new” fur, so that they are ready for the coming spring.
Immediately after the gate was closed and the animals were moved to their respective groups, Kristina started one of her favorite activities; shearing cattle. So now all the animals have been freshly clipped.

The herd’s oldest cow Bloksdal Jelana (Utrillo-BP x Bloksdal Elana -ET) from April 6, 2014, has had her ninth calf.

Earlier this week she gave birth to a live bull calf. The calf was born about three weeks prematurely and was therefore not too big and a little limp, but otherwise healthy. The calf’s father is our former breeding bull Tornado P Hvirring (Indou PP x Polka Hvirring P).

The calf will be number 440 and will be named Bloksdal Alene.

2025 is approaching quickly. Here at Bloksdal, we would like to look back on the year 2024 and give a short report about it.

This year we have participated in three animal shows and received honorary prizes at all of them. Unlike last year when our five honorary prizes were awarded to different animals, this year it is a single animal that has outshone the others:

• Bloksdal Unika (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal Opal)

The first honorary prize was awarded at Kødkvægskue Nord back in March. The next show was at he local show in Hjørring in June and finally it was the National Show in Herning at the beginning of July. Here Bloksdal Unika not only managed to win an honorary prize, but also the title of Denmark’s best Charolais heifer and second best Charolais animal at the show. As you know, the Kimbrerskue was not held this year.

In addition to animal shows, we have sold quite a few animals both for slaughter and for subsistence. We have sold five animals for subsistence, while we have slaughtered nine animals. We would like to thank both buyers of meat, who have purchased privately directly from the slaughterhouse, and buyers of live animals.

This year we have had ten calves in nine calvings and expect approximately the same number in the coming year, depending on our embryos, the number may be slightly higher.

In the almost past year, we have held one open house together with Dansk Kødkvæg back in January with a good number of visitors.

At the time of writing, we have 731 followers on Instagram and almost 2100 on Facebook. We are happy and proud that you will follow our work with the beautiful white animals. This year we had a video in particular where the father pats a cow with a calf in the field, which went viral. The video has reached over 105,000 people worldwide and been viewed over 134,000 times, while over 5,000 have interacted with it.

We have had visits from good friends from France twice this year. Valériane Hervais and the Sallé family all made the long journey to Denmark with, among other things, a desire to visit us. We are happy about this and in this connection we would also like to thank all the other guests and visitors we have had here on the farm, but also people we have met around the world at various shows and in other connections.

We wish everyone a Happy New Year

Bloksdal TurBeau (Neptune JC x Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET) has been sold. TurBeau was picked up today and taken to his new owners Ulla and Kristian Pedersen from Mørke on Djursland.

TurBeau is a very special bull for us and in general. His father, Neptune JC, won the title of best Charolais bull in France in 2019, and is a bull with a pedigree with all the best from the Charolais motherland.

TurBeau’s mother is Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET (Vaillant x Anabelle). Vaillant is also a very recognized French bull with many show winners in France and Spain. His father Port Royal is the same. His mother Anabelle was a great show cow herself and has bred many prime animals at Elevage Sallé Charolais.

In addition to the obvious genetics, which are top notch, so is his temperament. Unfortunately for us, we have many females who are related to him, which is why he cannot serve as a bull with us.

We are therefore happy that he will now go to Ulla and Kristian. We hope it will be a good match, wish him luck and thank him for the deal.

Our stock bull Tornado P Hvirring, has unfortunately passed away today. We bought Tornado back in December 2023 from Jette and Bjarne Pagh. Tornado was a lovely bull with a good temperament after the French polled bull Indou PP. He had an impressive yearling weight of 570 kg. For unknown reasons, he has contracted a disease (rhinostomy) which we have tried to treat through our veterinarian. Unfortunately, this has not been sufficient and he has left us today.

This week we have transferred the first of four new embryos into a broodmare cow at Jørgen Elkjær. The embryos were purchased from Elevage Sallé Charolais in France, from whom we have also had great success in purchasing embryos in the past. The first embryo transferred is from Vaillant x Sylvette, and we are therefore now waiting anxiously to see if we will get a pregnancy from this.