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<blockquote data-quote="Big Cheese" data-source="post: 1224465" data-attributes="member: 23385"><p>Every breed has been genetically developed nowadays to have lower birth weights. If you do enough research you can find a Brahma and/or a Charolais that throws LBW calves. The Charolais' that we bought are suppose to be LBW and the first calf we had out of one was about 75 pounds. We are waiting on more to know how it goes for sure but its looking OK so far. I'm still against breeding a heifer straight to a Charolais but its not impossible and troublesome like it used to be and i'm beginning to change my tune on it. You breed any breed to heifer that is unproven it could have problems. We had a Black Angus bull before we bought our Charolais' and the first calf we got out of him weighed over 100 pounds and we had to help the momma a little bit to have it. We worried then that we had bought an Angus bull that threw big calves but never had him throw a big calf again and the heifer had the next calf out of him with ease and every heifer he bred has their calf with ease. Don't forget that the bull is only half of the fetus the other is the heifer. That has more influence then you would think it would. You never know what could happen when a heifer has her first calf. Its all gambling until they are born.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Cheese, post: 1224465, member: 23385"] Every breed has been genetically developed nowadays to have lower birth weights. If you do enough research you can find a Brahma and/or a Charolais that throws LBW calves. The Charolais' that we bought are suppose to be LBW and the first calf we had out of one was about 75 pounds. We are waiting on more to know how it goes for sure but its looking OK so far. I'm still against breeding a heifer straight to a Charolais but its not impossible and troublesome like it used to be and i'm beginning to change my tune on it. You breed any breed to heifer that is unproven it could have problems. We had a Black Angus bull before we bought our Charolais' and the first calf we got out of him weighed over 100 pounds and we had to help the momma a little bit to have it. We worried then that we had bought an Angus bull that threw big calves but never had him throw a big calf again and the heifer had the next calf out of him with ease and every heifer he bred has their calf with ease. Don't forget that the bull is only half of the fetus the other is the heifer. That has more influence then you would think it would. You never know what could happen when a heifer has her first calf. Its all gambling until they are born. [/QUOTE]
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