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<blockquote data-quote="cattleman99" data-source="post: 962324" data-attributes="member: 14530"><p>Won't comment much on Jump Start other than to say if that works for you keep using it.</p><p></p><p>As for Majestic I have a lot of experience with him. My Dad used him heavily for 2 years in the heifer pen. Dad is getting up there in years and is at the stage where whenever he has issues calving he calls me. So I told him a few years ago to start using easier calving bulls on the first calf heifers as I don't particularly like getting up in the middle of the night when it's -25C and driving over to his place in a cold truck to calve a heifer. He had between 29 Majestic calves and we only assisted one heifer with twins that were all mixed up. Most of the calves were in the 80-90 lb range which is small around here (I looked back at his calving books and he had 2 under 80 (the twins were 74 and 78) and the largest was 96 but that cow hasn't had a calf under 105 lbs since. Basically what I'm saying is if your heifer can't calve Majestic you need to get rid of the heifer. Dad's AI guy recommended him. </p><p></p><p>The calves had lots of vigor too. He only ever kept one bull calf which got sold to a neighbour to use in the heifer pen and worked well there. The calves weaned a good 50-75lbs lighter than the rest of the cowherd and didn't have enough grow or capacity for our liking. Definately a heifer approved bull and we would use him again if we could get more as I don't believe it's available in Canada anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cattleman99, post: 962324, member: 14530"] Won't comment much on Jump Start other than to say if that works for you keep using it. As for Majestic I have a lot of experience with him. My Dad used him heavily for 2 years in the heifer pen. Dad is getting up there in years and is at the stage where whenever he has issues calving he calls me. So I told him a few years ago to start using easier calving bulls on the first calf heifers as I don't particularly like getting up in the middle of the night when it's -25C and driving over to his place in a cold truck to calve a heifer. He had between 29 Majestic calves and we only assisted one heifer with twins that were all mixed up. Most of the calves were in the 80-90 lb range which is small around here (I looked back at his calving books and he had 2 under 80 (the twins were 74 and 78) and the largest was 96 but that cow hasn't had a calf under 105 lbs since. Basically what I'm saying is if your heifer can't calve Majestic you need to get rid of the heifer. Dad's AI guy recommended him. The calves had lots of vigor too. He only ever kept one bull calf which got sold to a neighbour to use in the heifer pen and worked well there. The calves weaned a good 50-75lbs lighter than the rest of the cowherd and didn't have enough grow or capacity for our liking. Definately a heifer approved bull and we would use him again if we could get more as I don't believe it's available in Canada anymore. [/QUOTE]
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