The best thing about this time of year is getting the animals home and when we start getting calves. We still have the animals walking outside – four of them in the meadow and otherwise the rest is distributed advantage between two pieces of ryegrass at home and with the neighbour.
Some of the animals have also come to the stable because they will soon be calving, and in fact we got this season’s first calf this Sunday.
It became a bull calf after the French polled bull Japon SC (Glaieul x Fraise) and Anders’ cow Bloksdal Miva (Bloksdal Juvel x Bloksdal Diva).
Miva herself gave birth to the large 55 kg bull calf. Anders has decided that his name will be Bloksdal Ronaldo P (395).

This week we have sold two bull calves.
One is Bloksdal Pilou from October 9, 2019. He is after Cristal-Dk and Bloksdal Miva.
He has an impressive annual weight of 715 kg and should have been with us for the Kimbrerskuet. Instead, he has come up to Ib Christensen in Sæby, where he will be part of the breeding.
The other bull calf is Bloksdal Pondus. He is from 12 November 2019 and after Bloksdal Linux -ET V.B. and Bloksdal Jelana. His annual weight is 698 kg.
He has been sold to Mikkel Thorsen, Havndal, and will, like Pilou, be part of the breeding there.
We wish both buyers and bulls all the best and say thank you for the deal.

As you know, the Kimbrerskuet, like so much else, was canceled this year due to the ongoing pandemic (COVID-19). We had looked forward to going to show once again, and spend time together as a family and with good animals and friends. But quite understandably, this show was, as you know, also canceled.

This year we had planned to exhibit 3 debutants;

Bloksdal Perle, 377 – 21 April 19.
Father: Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B.
Mother: Bloksdal Jæmatit -ET.

Bloksdal Pilou, 382 – October 9, 19.
Father: Cristal-DK.
Mother: Bloksdal Miva.

Bloksdal Piña Colada, 384 – November 7, 19.
Father: Bloksdal Linux -ET V.B.
Mother: Bloksdal Liqueur.

We are now instead looking forward to summer where we again hope to get to shows.

Today’s cow is also Anders’ and is presented on Karsten’s birthday.

Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET is from 3 December 2016 and has given birth to a single calf. She was purchased as an embryo at Elevage Salle Charolais. We bought three embryos and got three calves, which in addition to Mirabelle is our current fold bull Bloksdal Matador -ET.
Mirabelle belongs to Anders and is one of our best cows despite her young age.
She is after the famous French bull Vaillant (Port Royal x Nivea), while on the mother side she is after Anabelle (Major x Sylvette). In other words, there are top animals across the line, and several of them have won large shows in France.
Mirabelle has also already made herself positively noticed at the Danish shows, where she, among other things. has won the predicates; The show’s best heifer, best insemination heifer and the show’s best Charolais animals and achieved 24 points several times.
She is currently pregnant with Glasgow (Apache x Dentelle) and is due to calve by December.

Today’s cow is one of Anders’ two cows, Bloksdal Miva.
Miva was born on April 12, 2016 and has given birth to two calves. She is on the father side after Bloksdal Juvel (Utrillo-BP x Bloksdal Diamant -ET) while on the mother side she is after Bloksdal Diva (Vainqueur x Bloksdal Smulle).
Miva’s grandmother, Diva, was Anders’ confirmation gift and Miva is thus a descendant of it.
Miva is herself a medium sized cow but with incredibly high indices as well as an nice temperament. In addition, she breeds excellently. In fact, we should have exhibited a super bull calf after her for the just-canceled Kimbrerskue.

We have reached cow number seven out of 12. Today’s cow is Bloksdal Liqueur (335). She is from them 02. August 2015 and has had three calves. She is after our previous animal show bull Vanggaard Daddy -ET (Valseur x Bloksdal Butterfly -ET) and Bloksdal Bailey (Vainqueur x Bloksdal Unak -ET).
Despite having several show winners in her pedigree, Bloksdal Liqueur has never participated in a show. On the other hand, she is the mother of a really good heifer calf, which we had been looking forward to showing off at the canceled Kimbrerskue.

After a short break due to the harvest and calving, etc., we are now ready for round two in our presentation of the herd.
Today’s cow is Bloksdal Lavendel (333). She is from 29 May 2015 and has given birth to two calves. She is now pregnant with our stockbull Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. (Vaillant x Anabelle). She is also after a stockbull and a cow that we have bred ourselves; Bloksdal Invincible and Bloksdal Dahlia. Behind these, however, are well-known older French top bulls, including Utrillo-BP and Igloo.Mic.
We have taken her to the show once, where she did well and got 23 points. A young cow with lots of meat.

The summer is over and we have therefore brought the first animals home from the meadow.
We have brought home three cows and four calves. Some of the animals are enclosed on ryegrass, while others have entered the barn. We always turn cow and calf apart by separating them indoors. In a week, the cows will be closed to grass again.
Immediately after the calves came to the barn, Kristina started to cut them. A good and productive day at Bloksdal Charolais.

This weekend we got the mold out of the barn and plowed it into the ground. Even though there has been some water lately, the ground is still almost dry. Thanks for helping Gregers Jensen, Oppelstrup.

The Kimbrerskuet has just officially canceled the planne show on 2 – 4 October 2020 in Aars.

The board of directors behind the Kimbrerskuet justifies the cancellation with the ongoing outbreak of infection with new cases of Corona virus.
It is a cancellation that we at Bloksdal Charolais support 100%, even though we had been looking forward to showing our animals and spending some days with friends and colleagues.

We should have shown two heifers and one bull calf at the show. It is the first time in several decades that Bloksdal Charolais goes through an entire calendar year without having to go to an animal show.