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Bull calves and birth weight ???
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 644758" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>First, I'll say that the weights in the South are a lot different than yours. Even mine will run different than yours, because of the extreme cold temps.</p><p>We pretty much use a 100# cutoff. If the calf grew out to be in the top 10% of my bull calves, I wouldn't care how small he was at birth. I kept & sold 1 bull over 100#. He was about 104# and he went to a breeder that had been using only our bulls for about 10 years. He was out of a cow that really liked to "incubate" her calves and get them half grown before spitting them out. He was extremely small for her and he was the one he wanted. His pedigree & EPD's all indicated he should be easy calving. Buyer used him on commercial Simmental heifers and never had a problem. But, I would NEVER try to talk someone into a high BW bull, because his pedigree or EPD's said he was going to be OK. Just asking for trouble.</p><p>As far as pulling. Essentially the only calves we assist are malpresentations. But, if we had a bull calf that was coming normal presentation out of a female with normal size to her and we had to pull him, I would say he was in line for steer-dom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 644758, member: 968"] First, I'll say that the weights in the South are a lot different than yours. Even mine will run different than yours, because of the extreme cold temps. We pretty much use a 100# cutoff. If the calf grew out to be in the top 10% of my bull calves, I wouldn't care how small he was at birth. I kept & sold 1 bull over 100#. He was about 104# and he went to a breeder that had been using only our bulls for about 10 years. He was out of a cow that really liked to "incubate" her calves and get them half grown before spitting them out. He was extremely small for her and he was the one he wanted. His pedigree & EPD's all indicated he should be easy calving. Buyer used him on commercial Simmental heifers and never had a problem. But, I would NEVER try to talk someone into a high BW bull, because his pedigree or EPD's said he was going to be OK. Just asking for trouble. As far as pulling. Essentially the only calves we assist are malpresentations. But, if we had a bull calf that was coming normal presentation out of a female with normal size to her and we had to pull him, I would say he was in line for steer-dom. [/QUOTE]
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