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**** Semen is now available on RLF Xman, who won reserve grand champion at the 2010 Royal Winter Fair!  Xman is out of cow bred by us, sold to Rail Line Limousin.  We still own a half sister to this cow, who has produced two daughters and one granddaughter that are in our herd.  Xman is now jointly owned by Rail Line, Top Meadow and Semex.   You can see Xman at http://www.semex.com/beef/i?lang=en&beef=view&breed=LI&av=C&view=129

**** The 56 day weighing is in from the Maritime Beef Testing Societies 2011/12 test.  There are 12 Limousin bulls in the test this year.  Eight from Othbergs, three from Craigs and our one entry.  They currently have an a.d.g. of 3.84 lbs/day.  Our entry, a double polled calf, is currently at an a.d.g. of 4.11, ranked third of those on test.  For more information on the bulls, go to the test station's site through the link on our links page.

**** The Maritime Beef Testing Society hosted an outstanding sale on April 2nd.  The high selling Limousin was an Othberg bull that sold for $3,100.  Two entries from Craigs sold for $3,000.  The ten Limousin entries had a solid $2,400 average.  Thanks to Rheal Allain of Saint Marie de Kent in New Brunswick for purchasing our entry.

**** Also sold this spring to Two Crow Limousin was BJM Polled Royalty with her 2011 polled heifer calf.  Royalty is a young cow with a temperment well suited for this new Nova Scotia Limousin herd.

 **** Congradulations to Rail Line Farms of Ontario on winning the Reserve Grand Champion bull award with RLF X-Man 573X at the 2010 Royal Winter Fair in Toronto.  X-Man is out of JDK Gold 66S, a female bred here at Blue Diamond.  Top Meadow Farms in Ontario has purchased a share in this young herd sire.  Semen may be available in the future.   We have a half sister to Gold here at the farm, BJM Polled Black Rose.

 **** Look for the girls on TV!  A local TV documentary group was producing a show featuring an Ontario farm family that raised Limousin.  When editing the documentary, they realised they had no "Limo" footage to use while the family was talking about their cattle.  A check on the CLA website directed them to us and they were able to get the shots they were looking for.  I was told that the girls were very cooperative - which was not that difficult seeing as all they needed was shots of cows and calves grazing in the field.  Something our girls are quite good at!

Who are we? Blue Diamond Polled Limousin is an all polled herd of Limousin cattle located in the central Nova Scotia. Blue Diamond purchased its first purebred cow from Dundas Farms in Prince Edward Island in 1984. Since then, Blue Diamond has purchased cattle originating from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Dakotas.

Our goal has never wavered; to produce quiet, polled females that will calve at 24 months and produce into their late teens and bulls that will stay in herds because of their docile temperament, calving ease, good feet and legs and the premium price that their calves receive.

We have been fortunate that even with our small numbers, our cattle have broken sales records at the Maritime Bull Test sale, have produced Grand Champions at our largest Atlantic shows and have won the First Ladies Classic. But more importantly, we have produced the quality of animals that are still working long after other animals have been culled.

Although our program is to raise breeding stock, from time to time we have beef available.  In France, where our breed originated, Limousin are known as the Butchers Breed, because of their muscling.  We work closely with a local, provincially inspected abbattoir to produce lean meat, raised naturally mostly on grass, with no growth hormones.  Our meat is cut to remove the ourside fat, so there is no fat to drain from our hamburger.  Contact us for prices and availablity.  We also have honey available.

So please look at the cow families that we are so proud of, and the bulls that are the sires of our current females and calf crop. All of our bull calves will be tested out at the Maritime Beef Test Station. As the test progress, please check back to see how our bulls are doing.