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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1446960" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>SASK, </p><p>Commercial herd here - only time we've ever bothered weighing a calf was about 3 years back when we were recruited to do a progeny-test breeding trial for a Shorthorn seedstock producer. If it gets here alive and we don't have to touch it to get it here, everything is good. </p><p>I'm horrible at estimating weights, but I'd hazard a guess that BWs on these calves are about 75#-80# out of mature cows... smaller out of the heifers. </p><p>This bull -and granted, accuracies are low - has CED 14.7, BW -1.1, WW 72, YW 102.9; Mrb 0.38, REA .77, Shr -.31; API 155.9, TI 84.4. Homo black/polled... working well for us; this fall's crop has several calves by Braunvieh, Shorthorn, and Angus AI sires... we'll see how those sired by the walking herdsire stack up against them... but the comparison may still be difficult to make, as most of his calves are out of virgin and re-bred first-calf heifers. </p><p></p><p>On the baldie/blaze deal... it's hit or miss. have bred blaze-faced SimAngus cows to several baldie/blaze-faced Simmental sires and sometimes you just get a solid black calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1446960, member: 12607"] SASK, Commercial herd here - only time we've ever bothered weighing a calf was about 3 years back when we were recruited to do a progeny-test breeding trial for a Shorthorn seedstock producer. If it gets here alive and we don't have to touch it to get it here, everything is good. I'm horrible at estimating weights, but I'd hazard a guess that BWs on these calves are about 75#-80# out of mature cows... smaller out of the heifers. This bull -and granted, accuracies are low - has CED 14.7, BW -1.1, WW 72, YW 102.9; Mrb 0.38, REA .77, Shr -.31; API 155.9, TI 84.4. Homo black/polled... working well for us; this fall's crop has several calves by Braunvieh, Shorthorn, and Angus AI sires... we'll see how those sired by the walking herdsire stack up against them... but the comparison may still be difficult to make, as most of his calves are out of virgin and re-bred first-calf heifers. On the baldie/blaze deal... it's hit or miss. have bred blaze-faced SimAngus cows to several baldie/blaze-faced Simmental sires and sometimes you just get a solid black calf. [/QUOTE]
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