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<blockquote data-quote="simskop" data-source="post: 567252" data-attributes="member: 8591"><p>Like I said I am guessing at the weight, but I don't think I can be that fare off, maybe I am 25 lbs over, but there is no way he is lighter then 475 lbs. The first year I had the cow, she weaned a very large calf. I don't know exactly what it weighed, because it sold with 5 other calves, but they averaged 667 lb right off the cows. These cows where bred when I bought them. The calves were 7 to 8 months old when I sold them. The next year, she had a bull calf that got caught up in some brush in the creek. I had two friends out there hunting, they saw it, and pulled it up to level ground. It was too late, been there down hill to long. When they called me to tell me what happened they thought it was a 4 or 5 month old calve, when in fact it was only 2 months old. Last year she had a heifer in April. I never pulled her out of the cow herd last year. The cow weaned her off herself and I just let her run with the cows till the end of March I brought her and a couple of others to my house. She at this moment is 16 months old, and has to weigh around 1050 to 1100 lbs. </p><p> All that being said, I think I just have one freak cow with explosive growth genetics. I am keeping the heifer for sure. The bull calve seemed like it was on track to have the high weaning weight and yearling weight that most people require to consider a bull for a herd bull? I didn't weigh him at birth, but I don't think he was around 90 lbs. I did have a couple closer to 100 lbs, born 1 or 2 months before this guy, that he now out weighs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="simskop, post: 567252, member: 8591"] Like I said I am guessing at the weight, but I don’t think I can be that fare off, maybe I am 25 lbs over, but there is no way he is lighter then 475 lbs. The first year I had the cow, she weaned a very large calf. I don’t know exactly what it weighed, because it sold with 5 other calves, but they averaged 667 lb right off the cows. These cows where bred when I bought them. The calves were 7 to 8 months old when I sold them. The next year, she had a bull calf that got caught up in some brush in the creek. I had two friends out there hunting, they saw it, and pulled it up to level ground. It was too late, been there down hill to long. When they called me to tell me what happened they thought it was a 4 or 5 month old calve, when in fact it was only 2 months old. Last year she had a heifer in April. I never pulled her out of the cow herd last year. The cow weaned her off herself and I just let her run with the cows till the end of March I brought her and a couple of others to my house. She at this moment is 16 months old, and has to weigh around 1050 to 1100 lbs. All that being said, I think I just have one freak cow with explosive growth genetics. I am keeping the heifer for sure. The bull calve seemed like it was on track to have the high weaning weight and yearling weight that most people require to consider a bull for a herd bull? I didn’t weigh him at birth, but I don’t think he was around 90 lbs. I did have a couple closer to 100 lbs, born 1 or 2 months before this guy, that he now out weighs. [/QUOTE]
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