After not having had the opportunity to participate in the last two years National Show due to COVID-19, Bloksdal Charolais returned to the animal show in Herning in style.
The best National Show ever for our family!
It did not start so well, we had to leave one of our three registered heifers at home. We therefore participated this year with two heifers Bloksdal Special Lady (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal MiLady) and Bloksdal Piña Colada (Bloksdal Linux -ET V.B. x Bloksdal Liqueur).
For Thursday’s competitions, Special Lady was alone in her group, but the French judge David Riviere still gave her really good characteristics and 23p. She was later to participate in the honorary prize competition. The last heifer in the ring on Thursday morning was Piña Colada. She was in a group with eight other fantastic heifers – arguably the best group on the whole show. Here, Piña Colada manages to become number one, and was therefore of course also given 23p and allowed to participate in the honorary prize competition, which was held later the same day. Here 17 amazing Charolais animals participated and Martin’s heifer Special Lady was placed in seventh place as the third best heifer on the show. Kristina’s heifer Piña Colada did even better, being named the show’s best Charolais heifer and third best Charolais animal overall. This result gave an honorary award to both heifers and in addition they were both upgraded to the magic 24p.

Finally, we would like to thank everyone who helped make the days at the National Show some good days, we from Bloksdal Charolais have at least enjoyed all the days in Herning. We would like to congratulate everyone on their prizes and rankings.

REMEMBER you can watch or re-watch the show on our live broadcast on our facebook page and see more photos in the album “Landsskuet 2022” here on the website.

Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET (Vaillant x Anabelle), which is an embryo we bought in France from Elevage Sallé Charolais, had gone 10 days over time, so we were starting to get a little nervous.

She gave birth to a healthy and lovely bull calf in less than an hour. After this, it also took less than an hour before he was up to get milk.

It is a fantastic fresh and exciting bull calf of 59 kg after Neptune (I Love You x Fabtazia) from SCEA Raumond. Neptune has i.a. won the title of best Charolais bull in France (Paris 2020).

Anders has decided that the calf should be called Tur beau (pronounced Turbo), which in French means “Beautiful bull”. The calf gets number 414.

The official catalog for next week’s National Show in Herning has arrived today and we can therefore reveal which animals we are participating with this year.
We participate with both Bloksdal Rosabelle (Glasgow x Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET) and Bloksdal Special Lady (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal MiLady), who both won their group at the recently concluded the local show in Hjørring and participated in the honorary prize competition.
Last but not least, we exhibit Bloksdal Piña Colada (Bloksdal Linux -ET V.B. x Bloksdal Liqueur), which was last exhibited in Aars at Kimbrerskuet, where she won her group and participated in the honorary prize competition.
In other words, it is three heifers in top form that have proven their worth in the past, which we are exhibiting at this year’s national show.
See the entire catalog at the link below:

https://landsskuet.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Katalog-koedkvaeg-samlet-2022.pdf?fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR3wF_MTLNOcHiO6Sye6KtBfHB_gFOTRRmMJCzHeVXHuZeo18ixHPVbB-Nc

We are now home and well from a good show in Hjørring 2022. It was nice to finally be away again, on top of two years of closure with corona. As we announced earlier this week, we participated with three catalog numbers.
The first animal was Bloksdal MiLady (Vanggaard Daddy -ET x Bloksdal Unak -ET). She was in a group with another really good cow without a calf, which was hard to keep up with as MiLady had her one and a half old heifer calf with her. She was therefore placed in second with 22 points.
Our next animal was Bloksdal Rosabelle (Glasgow x Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET). She was in a group with three other good heifers. She won the group and got 23 points and was later to participate in the honorary prize competition. The last animal was Bloksdal Special Lady (Bloksdal Matador – ET V.B. x Bloksdal MiLady). She was alone in her group but got extremely positive publicity and therefore also got 23 points. Which also meant that she had to participate in the honorary prize competition.
In this participated 14 animals and Bloksdal Rosabelle finished in the top eight, while Bloksdal Special Lady finished in the top 3. She was even upgraded to the maximum 24 points.
All in all, a great local show for our family and herd. Now we look forward with great excitement to the upcoming National Show in Herning.

In conclusion, we would like to congratulate everyone on their prizes and placements and say thank you for honorary prizes to Danish Beef Cattle.

The catalog for animal show in Hjørring has arrived. We are participating this year with three catalog numbers (four animals). These are three well known animals, as all three have been exhibited before.

Bloksdal MiLady (Vanggaard Daddy -ET x Bloksdal Unak -ET). Exhibited with her calf Bloksdal Triple Lady (Gaston). She is in a group with one other cow without a calf.

Bloksdal Rosabelle (Glasgow x Bloksdal Mirabelle -ET) is in a group with six other heifers of the same age.

Bloksdal Special Lady (Bloksdal Matador -ET V.B. x Bloksdal MiLady) is in team with one other heifer, with a few days in between.

A total of 36 catalog numbers have been registered for this show.

See the entire catalog at the link below.

http://www.hjorringdyrskue.dk/Admin/Public/DWSDownload.aspx?File=%2fFiles%2fFiles%2fHj%c3%b8rringDyrskue%2f2022%2fKatalog++Hj%c3%b8rring+Dyrskue+2022_+Kv%c3%a6g.pdf

Tonight we got a new family member. Martin’s cow Bloksdal MiLady (Vanggaard Daddy -ET x Bloksdal Unak -ET), has given birth to a calf. MiLady has previously won several honorary awards at various shows and has been selected by the Charolais Association as a potential bull mother. We had therefore followed their recommendations and used a selected French bull on their choice. This in the hope of a potential bull calf with good indexes and exterior, which in the future can be used as an insemination bull. Unfortunately, it was not a bull calf, but a nice fresh heifer calf of 48 kg after Gaston (Robustin x Catalane), which MiLady enriched us with. The calf gets number 413 and will be named Triple Lady.

We have now got the first animals on grass. These three heifers have come to graze in a newly established fold on the farm.
This coming weekend we will start taking more animals out. However, these must go down into the meadows around Ferslev.

Tonight we have had a visit from our regular hoof trimmer, Fjellerad Hoof Trimmer by Palle Christiansen. All adult animals, except two highly pregnant cows, are now hoofed and ready to get on the meadow this coming weekend.

If you are missing a new breeding bull, continue reading this.

Bloksdal Charolais has this bull calf for sale. Bloksdal Red Bull (400).
Red Bull is from 19 / 12-20 after our current stockbull Bloksdal Matador -ET and Bloksdal Liqueur.
Matador, is the son of show winners in France (Vaillant x Anabelle from @pierreyvessalle), while his mother Liqueur (Vanggaard Daddy x Bloksdal Bailey) is show winners from Denmark.
In other words, the pedigree is top notch but also numbers and temperament are perfectly fine. He is very typical of the breed, has a good topline and meat composition.

If interested contact:
Karsten Brødbæk – 51714574 or Karsten@bloksdal.dk