Recent content by FCC

Chuckie, Thanks for the kind words. I'm with you on the cow milking deal. I'm scared to death to get too much milk in my cowherd, as you tend to get cows that "milk themselves out of production". I will probably open up a new "can of worms", but I don't creep feed either. I expect my cows to...

Yes indeed, I will most certainly plan to bone up on the genetics lesson. In future posts I will try not to make "light" of any issue...please accept my apologies. FCC

Exactly, we have found that in certain lines, they seem to like to keep those nasty horns! FCC

To answer the udder question, Aubracs have a fairly small udder, as the milk has a high butter fat content. With this said, I don't forsee having any real udder problems and I have had a very good experience with udder quality in our own herd. The bulls are aggressive breeders and are extremely...

MasterBreeder, Thanks for checking out our website. I always appreciate the input from all areas of the country. I guess I haven't had any problems in my program with "Nut" sizes. To give you a little background on the reproductivety of our cowherd, we just had 94% of our calves in the first...

Hello, I have been reading the comments on the National Aubrac sale, and wanted to thank everyone for your interest in the breed. My family hosted the sale and we also consigned the lower percentage Aubracs (out of composite cows), either from our own herd or Cooperator herds. The sale...

Hello everyone, I just thought I would add a few remarks on the horned/polled Aubrac. We have been using Aubrac bulls for 4 years. When we started we were using all horned bulls on mostly polled composite females. We have found that even on polled cows, some of the horns are hard to remove in...

I just wanted to let everyone know that the 2nd National Aubrac sale is scheduled for April 7. 2008 at the Ficke Cattle Co headquarters near Pleasant Dale, Nebraska. For questions or info regarding this event, please visit http://www.aubracusa.com or http://www.fickecattle.com or call us at...