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British Blue Bull Book
British Blue breeders have come a long way in developing the ‘British
Type’ of Blue, since their introduction into the UK in the early 1980’s.
They recognised their future importance to the modern commercial beef market,
being fine boned, heavily muscled, docile animals with tremendous growth
potential, leading to a very high percentage of saleable meat. In 2006 a ‘Pedigree
Breeding Index’ was been introduced, as a further selection tool.
This ‘Bull Book’ contains a selection of British Bred Sires with semen available for a range of markets both at home here in the UK and overseas. If you are interested in our Genetics please make your own arrangements to contact the owner of the bull directly. If semen is currently not collected to your particular market protocol it may be possible to rectify this when future semen collections are made. When one calculates the number of calves sired by a particular Beef Breed, the British Blue is the UK’s 5th most popular Beef sire, with over 1 million Blue sired calves being born in the UK in 2003. The British Blue’s growth in the UK is market driven, with meat processors profiting from up to 15% extra yield of saleable meat being obtainable from a Blue X quality carcase. This yield has not been at the expense of eating quality with a Sirloin from a Blue X carcase recently winning a ‘Best Scottish Steak’ competition at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh and The Balmoral Show, Belfast. |
latest newsBeef’s Future – Hand in Hand With Science An Open Technical Conference on Wednesday 15th Sept 2010 at Swan Lodge, Bucklow Hill, Knutsford, Cheshire. [details] Croftends Herd wins ‘Most Improved’ Award for British Blue breed [more] Females in demand but selective trade for bulls at Chelford summer sale [report] The offering for the Wilde About Blues Part 5 production sale certainly did not disappoint as breeders and enthusiasts filled the ringside on Friday 11th June at Carlisle. [report] British Blue bulls peak at 16,000gns British Blue breeders enjoyed a bumper days trading at the Border British Blue Club’s Twentieth Annual Spring Show & Sale at Carlisle on Saturday 15 May. [report]
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