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We sell about 90-100 Simmental, Angus and F1 Simmental X Angus bulls a year in our Canoochee Forage Bull Development Center sale. Last October, we our bulls sold for an average of $1740 with the high selling bull going for $3700 and the lowest priced bull at $1200. If this bull is of any quality...

Just wanted to throw my two cents worth in the hat about the Simmental breed. I studied a lot of breeds before deciding on breeding purebred Simmentals in 1989. I first liked the breed because of their gentleness, good maternal ability and their fast growth. Over the years of breeding...

According to a recent study by MARC (Meat Animal Research Center) you can get up to 87% of maximum hybrid vigor in your calf crop by selectively mating hybrid bulls to commercial cows from a different breed makeup than your hybrid bull. I would be interested in knowing which study stated that...

I agree 100% in that you can get more variation from lines within a given breed than you can from animals crossed between breeds sometimes. Like you said, it is all in the matings. Where a lot of cattlemen miss the boat on using composite bulls is that they can simplify crossbreeding and...

We are in the middle of a pretty severe drought here in Southeast Georgia. Now is the time of year that our cattle should have plenty of grass available, but due to lack of rainfall, (Currently 14 inches behind annual rainfall for 2004) we basically have no grass. Our calves are 4-5 months old...

SAV 8180 Traveler 004 - A son of Sitz Traveler 8180 and Boyd New Day's full ET sister makes an excellent F1 SimAngus composite. Boyd New Day 8005 - A son of New Trend and out of a Leachman Right Time sired cow does an excellent job and the most proven Angus bull for use back on Simmental cows is...

I think that there are distinct advantages to using hybrid bulls on your commercial cowherd, but there are also pitfalls. No crossbred animal is going to be any better than the parents that went into making that animal. So if you start with trash animals, then you will be very disapointed...

What is ya'll opinion on using composite breed bulls on commercial cowherds? They have been doing it with chickens, pigs and row crops for years with great success. I am interested in other's opinions. Thanks

The hottest crossbreed going now here in Georgia is using good black Simmental bulls back on purebred or almost purebred black angus commercial cows. The resulting calves are all black and polled but posess added hybrid vigor, increased milk production in the females kept for replacements and...

We raise Simmentals in Southeast Georgia. We currently run 32 breeding age females. My brother also raises them a few miles from my farm and he has about 45 breeding age females. All of ours are Registered Simmental, mostly black or black with a white face. There is also a fleckvieh breeder that...