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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1541859" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Rumble does look good. Granted his accuracies are low - they have to be because he is young - but, he is out of a proven sire AND a proven donor dam. The dam has had 16 calves.</p><p>I would not be afraid to use him on heifers with those EPD's backed on both sides.</p><p></p><p>SOB - I think you are just looking for an excuse to be argumentative.</p><p>The Simmental breed calves easier than Hereford and within 1% of Angus - as a breed.</p><p>This OP has well grown out heifers (according to his estimate of weight). He should not have any problem using CE sires - even unproven as long as they have the backing behind the numbers.</p><p>IMHO - heifers should easily be able to have 75 - 90# calves. If not, you are not growing them out properly, or their pelvic area is waaayyyy too small and shouldn't be kept. I have had many calves over 100# out of heifers totally unassisted.</p><p>We have not helped one heifer in over 6 years - unless there was mal-presentation, but I can't even remember one of them. I have used +7 CE sires for heifers, without incident. These are not the muscle bound, big headed, hard calving 80's bulls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1541859, member: 968"] Rumble does look good. Granted his accuracies are low - they have to be because he is young - but, he is out of a proven sire AND a proven donor dam. The dam has had 16 calves. I would not be afraid to use him on heifers with those EPD's backed on both sides. SOB - I think you are just looking for an excuse to be argumentative. The Simmental breed calves easier than Hereford and within 1% of Angus - as a breed. This OP has well grown out heifers (according to his estimate of weight). He should not have any problem using CE sires - even unproven as long as they have the backing behind the numbers. IMHO - heifers should easily be able to have 75 - 90# calves. If not, you are not growing them out properly, or their pelvic area is waaayyyy too small and shouldn't be kept. I have had many calves over 100# out of heifers totally unassisted. We have not helped one heifer in over 6 years - unless there was mal-presentation, but I can't even remember one of them. I have used +7 CE sires for heifers, without incident. These are not the muscle bound, big headed, hard calving 80's bulls. [/QUOTE]
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