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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1113983" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>Back in the 80s Simmentals became the rage. We bought our first big sim and started our regular pulling of calves. For a while, it was normal to pull calves, it was normal to have 100 pounders, normal to lose a few cows a year. We've switched to angus bulls on our mostly sim cross cows and the calves are still big, but pulling has become history and losing cows rare. Occasionally the sim comes back out and we get a weirdly huge calf, but only on our older cows who can handle it. We buy low birthweight angus bulls for our heifers. We get calves anywhere from 30 to 60 pounds. If the heifer gives enough milk, the calves grow good. If not, they are dinky. Even with low birth EPDs, we still have to pull an occasional heifers calf. Out of 50 this year, we've pulled 2, but it was by hand and just to help the heifer along. The more angus our cows become, the less we are pulling calves. Angus calves come out standing..very different than a sim calf..... BUT, we are seeing more defects in our calves. So, i figure we'll start using a different breed of bull soon to stop that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1113983, member: 22072"] Back in the 80s Simmentals became the rage. We bought our first big sim and started our regular pulling of calves. For a while, it was normal to pull calves, it was normal to have 100 pounders, normal to lose a few cows a year. We've switched to angus bulls on our mostly sim cross cows and the calves are still big, but pulling has become history and losing cows rare. Occasionally the sim comes back out and we get a weirdly huge calf, but only on our older cows who can handle it. We buy low birthweight angus bulls for our heifers. We get calves anywhere from 30 to 60 pounds. If the heifer gives enough milk, the calves grow good. If not, they are dinky. Even with low birth EPDs, we still have to pull an occasional heifers calf. Out of 50 this year, we've pulled 2, but it was by hand and just to help the heifer along. The more angus our cows become, the less we are pulling calves. Angus calves come out standing..very different than a sim calf..... BUT, we are seeing more defects in our calves. So, i figure we'll start using a different breed of bull soon to stop that. [/QUOTE]
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