Diamond Blondes logo John & Carol Gilmour
East Coolabine Road, Kenilworth Qld 4574
Member of the Blonde d'Aquitaine Society of Australia and New Zealand
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Diamond Blonde stud The Blonde d'Aquitaine breed is a heavily muscled French breed renowned for producing efficient, high yielding beef carcasses.

The Blonde sire is known for producing small slender calves which grow rapidly once born. The calves have a great temperament, are fine boned and develop a heavy muscle pattern. On first cross mothers Blonde calves regularly achieve weaning weights of 400 to 500kg.

Blondes are a terminal sire best suited to mating with British or British-cross females like Angus, Murray Grey, Shorthorn or Hereford or their crosses. The resultant calves perform well both in the baby beef market as well as the store/feeder market.

Blonde cross calves perform exceptionally well in the feedlot. Some feedlotters claim Blonde cross calves seem to "explode" when placed on the feedlot. With the breed's known high feed efficiency as proven by the Vasse Feed Trials in WA, feedlotters are getting more growth and using less grain to finish a Blonde sired animal.

When combining easy calving, rapid growth, feed efficiency and high yielding carcasses, Blondes are the secret for success. Beef producers currently using Blonde bulls underline this fact by returning to purchase additional Blonde bulls. They are experiencing the Blonde impact - Blonde with lower production costs combined with increased sale prices both live weight or over the hook.