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<blockquote data-quote="lithuanian farmer" data-source="post: 1725787" data-attributes="member: 19683"><p>What I have personally noticed, that Angus bulls in such countries, like France, Netherlands, Belgium, where more muscular breeds are popular, you can hardly find a good Angus bull. So usually, there is one or two Angus bulls in semen catalogues, but those sure aren't the nicest looking fellas. </p><p>The smallest calf we've ever had was 57lbs. Hardly can call it a calf <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😅" title="Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" /> Our average is somewhere in 100-110lbs, depending from the year. Never chased after low birth weights and easy calving bulls, so maybe that's what actually build a herd with pretty good calving abilities. Plus culled some females, which showed that they will have calving difficulties in the future, and most of the time trying to keep heifers, from dams with good calving history. There are a couple cows and heifers, which can have a difficulty with a wrong bull, but with a properly selected bulls they do just fine. I do have a couple easier calving bulls in the tank, but use those only on some more risky heifers and cows. All other get normal ease calving bulls, with some exceptional cows getting harder calving bulls. </p><p>Have seen some examples, when constantly using only very easy calving bulls generation after generation build a herd, where cows weren't able to calve smaller than average calf naturally.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lithuanian farmer, post: 1725787, member: 19683"] What I have personally noticed, that Angus bulls in such countries, like France, Netherlands, Belgium, where more muscular breeds are popular, you can hardly find a good Angus bull. So usually, there is one or two Angus bulls in semen catalogues, but those sure aren't the nicest looking fellas. The smallest calf we've ever had was 57lbs. Hardly can call it a calf 😅 Our average is somewhere in 100-110lbs, depending from the year. Never chased after low birth weights and easy calving bulls, so maybe that's what actually build a herd with pretty good calving abilities. Plus culled some females, which showed that they will have calving difficulties in the future, and most of the time trying to keep heifers, from dams with good calving history. There are a couple cows and heifers, which can have a difficulty with a wrong bull, but with a properly selected bulls they do just fine. I do have a couple easier calving bulls in the tank, but use those only on some more risky heifers and cows. All other get normal ease calving bulls, with some exceptional cows getting harder calving bulls. Have seen some examples, when constantly using only very easy calving bulls generation after generation build a herd, where cows weren't able to calve smaller than average calf naturally. [/QUOTE]
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