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.

We now have had the last calf of the year. It was Bloksdal Superb (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal Mercedes P) that had a calf. She gave birth to the calf herself, which weighed 56 kg at birth. It also means that all calvings this season have happened easily and without help.

The calf is by Onedream P (Luther P x Honorable) and we therefore expect it to be a polled heifer calf. She will be called Bloksdal Volvo B18 P and will be numbered 439.

Bloksdal Pippi (Bloksdal Linux -ET V.B. x Bloksdal Holly V.B.) yesterday gave birth to a set of fresh bull calves herself. The calves are by Utrillo-BP (Major x Fatcha).

Pippi has now given birth to five calves (all bulls), and they were all born between October 2 and 10. Her calf from last year has just been slaughtered, just over 11 months old, with a slaughter weight of 349 kg.

The new calves will be called Valmet and Valtra and weighed 45 and 46 kg respectively.

Bloksdal Miva (Bloksdal Juvel x Bloksdal Diva) has once again given birth to a calf easily and without assistance. It was a heifer calf of 46 kg, by the French polled bull Onedream P (Luther P x Honorable). It is the second calf in Denmark after him.
Her name will be Valeriane P and number 436.
Miva gave birth to her at night in the field.
Her calving interval is only 322 days. This testifies to a strong cow, which works perfectly and only 1 insemination per cow has been used. pregnancy – which generally applies to all her calves.
Four out of the seven calves have been sold for breeding. All calves are born unaided and with great 200 and 365 day weights.

Back in June we had a visit from France. Back then it was the Sallé family who were visiting us. This time we were also visited by an “old” friends. We have had a visit from Valériane Hervais, who was last in Denmark 10 years ago in connection with her education. At that time she lived, among other things, for a period with us and helped out at a couple of shows.
Now she is in Denmark again. After a holiday in Iceland, she wants to visit her Danish friends before she goes back home to France. Nice to be able to reciprocate a little, of the enormous kindness we always meet in the Charolais homeland.

We have just received a press release, which unfortunately cancels the Kimbrerskuet 2024 in Aars. It is canceled due to the current situation with bluetongue.
We had otherwise registered two heifers and two older cows with calves, which we had been looking forward to exhibiting.