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.

We can now report that the harvest 2024 is over for us. The yield was super good for the rapeseed, the wheat yielded well and the spring barley was below average. We also have the straw for brushing and wrap for feeding that we need. Thanks to Gregers Jensen and Holger Jensen for harvesting and Mogens Nielsen for pressing straw and John Quist for making wrap.

About a week ago we came out to Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET (Vaillant x Anabelle) in the morning. She went out into the enclosure around the farm, as she was due to have a calf soon. It turned out to be closer than expected, as she had given birth to a calf herself in the morning. Mirabelle and her new heifer calf of 55 kg were then transported to the barn, where the calf had its first sip of milk.
It was Mirabelle’s fourth heifer calf in five calvings and her calving interval is 373 days.
The new calf is by the French bull Heracles (Royal Excelent x Demoiselle). The calf will be numbered 435 and will be called VeryBelle.