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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1650471" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>Not hardly.. Bison calves weigh 30-40 lbs at birth...some may go up to 50. Might have a problem if you bred a mini Zebu heifer to a bison bull, I dunno. Calving ease was one of the plusses given for the hybrids. I had a neighbor in the 80s that bred them. He had Charolais, Simmental, Gert and Brangus cows. All of their bison calves at birth, were smaller than their normal claves, especially the Char and Simm babies. The 2nd year, he paid the dairy next to him to AI some of their Holsteins. He used these to breed back to his Brangus bulls, to get the 3/4 cattle/ 1/4 bisons,. that he'd breed to the 1/2 cattle 1/2 bisons from his cows, to to get the 5/8x 3/8th blend that you register as Beefalo. The bucking bull breeder I talked about on the "Breed What You Love" thread, bred some of his 3-way LH/Bra/Chi cross cows to a bison bull (AI) ,.and then bred those back to his bucking bulls or cows to get the 3/4 x 1/4 cross to breed to the 50/50 crosses. These cows were all as big, nearly, as a full-blooded Chianina, though, so no problem with the 35-40 lb bison calves. If I had pure bison cows ( which are scarce, and VERY expensive, if they are tested to prove no cattle DNA) I'd pasture breed them to a bison bull, because they'd bring so much more than a beefalo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1650471, member: 40587"] Not hardly.. Bison calves weigh 30-40 lbs at birth...some may go up to 50. Might have a problem if you bred a mini Zebu heifer to a bison bull, I dunno. Calving ease was one of the plusses given for the hybrids. I had a neighbor in the 80s that bred them. He had Charolais, Simmental, Gert and Brangus cows. All of their bison calves at birth, were smaller than their normal claves, especially the Char and Simm babies. The 2nd year, he paid the dairy next to him to AI some of their Holsteins. He used these to breed back to his Brangus bulls, to get the 3/4 cattle/ 1/4 bisons,. that he'd breed to the 1/2 cattle 1/2 bisons from his cows, to to get the 5/8x 3/8th blend that you register as Beefalo. The bucking bull breeder I talked about on the "Breed What You Love" thread, bred some of his 3-way LH/Bra/Chi cross cows to a bison bull (AI) ,.and then bred those back to his bucking bulls or cows to get the 3/4 x 1/4 cross to breed to the 50/50 crosses. These cows were all as big, nearly, as a full-blooded Chianina, though, so no problem with the 35-40 lb bison calves. If I had pure bison cows ( which are scarce, and VERY expensive, if they are tested to prove no cattle DNA) I'd pasture breed them to a bison bull, because they'd bring so much more than a beefalo. [/QUOTE]
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