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FlyingLSimmentals

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I love watching calves when they are small and seeing their personalities. Some want to befriend you, some want to stay away from you, some want to sleep all the time and be lazy, some are always full of energy and do nothing but play, and some are just plain crazy. I guess that's a lot like us humans. Anyway I got thinking about how different our calves have been from different sires, when I went to check on the young ones this morning. The Stetson calves we've had are just full of energy and always wanting to play. I was standing still in the pasture watching them and the little Stetson heifer came up to me and pawed the ground a time or two as if she was a deer trying to get me to make a move. I did and she took off in a frolic with the other calf. Also remember one of our Gelbvieh bulls we had in the past, that his calves would just lay around and sleep all day like flat pancakes until it was time to eat again. Dad would always say those calves were just laying and growing. Personally, I think they just like trying to fool me that they were dying. As of right now all of our 2015 calves are heifers.
 
We've got 11 calves all from the same bull. Some are curious some are run and hides and some just don;t really care if you're around or not.
 
WalnutCrest, Those calves were sleeping dudes. I went to one to look him over, him laying there like a pancake. Most calves I could say something on my approach or just approach them and they would come alert. Some times I might have to give a pat or a rub but they would awaken easily. This particular calf here I patted him raised my voice and didn't get a response, even try smacking him still no response. Finally got him by the ear and pretty much began to drag him before he awoke. He got up looked at me, stretched then walked a pace and laid back down. After seeing him walk and move and that he looked fine I left. I suppose he wasn't done sleeping. Also it was his sire that liked chasing and trying to fight our Chevy trucks, and it was always only a Chevy. Actually had to go to the pasture in our Ford or Dodge to keep him from trying to attack it. To this day I don't know what it was about with that bull and yes it was more than 1 Chevy truck. Sadly we lost that bull to an accident but I got fond memories of that bull. Gelbvieh are the only other breed out there that you will see me praise as much as the Simmental. I really like them and love those gold colored females.
 
Somewhere in there there should have been a Ford or Dodge ad ...

What a great story! Thanks. :)

Oh, and I love (!) me some gold colored cows too. They know what they're doing and they look stylish while doing it.
 
Just this morning, we had a pretty cold night, foggy morning, and the sun was shining through it.. my two oldest calves "Tera" and "Teddy" were by the feed bunk.. Tera had her head under the feed bunk FAST asleep, I went up to her, spoke, patted her, I think she woke up but wasn't moving any, finally I grabbed her halter and moved her head, she blinked a couple times and got up.. 2 feet away was Teddy, still passed out like a drunk at 7 am on a saturday morning after an all night bender.. patted him.. nothing.. picked up his front leg, moved it around, dropped it.. still nothing.. he was out cold.. finally I grabbed his halter and he woke up and kinda looked at me.. no darned way I could make him actually get up.. Then I climbed up onto the truck on the other side of the fence and threw a bale of hay over and he figured that was dangerous enough to warrant getting up.
All my calves are now pretty laid back, but there's still always the little pot stirrers.. they come up to you and fight with your knees, pull your shirt tails, or eat your ears/nose/hat or whatever else they can find..
Flying L.. If you like the Gelbvieh as well, you should look at some nice Limos too.. My oldest heifer is SH, GV and limo, and she's really impressive.. somewhere in the 200-225 lbs already at only 5 weeks old.. she has a good momma of course too
 
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Nesikep,
I've had some bad experience with Limousin but I do know there are good ones out there. Came close to buying a Black Limousin bull a few years ago at the Tennessee Agribition but held off because of that bad experience. He probably would have been fine but we were already inching our way to producing some Simmental Seedstock and decided we didn't need to introduce another breed to our herd as well. Still have a majority of cross bred cows but we're sticking with breeding them to Simmental and 3/4 SimAngus Bulls for the for seeable future. I don't figure I'll ever move completely to a Register or Purebred Herd but I like to get a lot closer than where I'm at. I could of done it in a little more of a hurry but I'm holding to our contract we made with the cows. If they would breed and calve and raise it, they have a home here. I Might possibly AI some of the cross bred dams to a different breed one of these days just to try out something but otherwise I'm committed to the Simmental Breed. I do like those Gold Gelbvieh's though so I might get some semen canes of it sooner than later and heck may even try and hide a straw of Limousin in the tank somewhere just for the heck of it :) .
 
For colors, a solid red SH cow with a gold GV produces a nice colored calf.. probably not 100% predictable, but they get a dark red overcoat with a gold tinted undercoat, and it really lights up in the evening sun :) I'm still liking the lighter blonds from the Limo too though, but will be going back to a red Saler next go round.. Now I need to do a lot of research on getting the right one
 
Nesikep
I've always liked your cattle pics and the color of the calves. I hope a Saler doesn't screw them up :) , good luck with your future decisions.
 
We have a heifer calf that I'm probably going to spoil rotten.
She just about knocks over her pen mate for attention when I come in the barn and she lives for scratches under the chin and behind her ear.
the other day I was scratching behind her poll and she was trying to crane her neck around to lick me but couldn't reach.
It was too cute.
I feel like she's got the personality if a friendly pooch dumped into her bovine head.
 
For me the absolute sucks for attention are the two oldest, Tera (Mega's) and Teddy (Caddy's bull).. Tera also *knows* she's pretty, and holds her head really high.. when she's laying down chewing cud she's looking at the sky... The next 2 years are going to go by slow while waiting to see what she can make for a calf
 

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