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<blockquote data-quote="VLS_GUY" data-source="post: 786318" data-attributes="member: 13182"><p>Anazazi,</p><p></p><p>We have experience calving large groups of Charolais cross and well grown out British continental cross heifers to Charolais bulls with birth weights of -3.0 or less with no problems. Our bull customers started doing this against our advice on Hereford Fleckvieh cross heifers because the Charolais bull they bought had the lightest birth weight of all the bulls they purchased that year. That bull worked well with none of the 35 calves produced needing a hand on them at birth. The Red Angus bull in the pasture with him was not ideal for heifers with a 97 pond birth weight and he had a few light pulls. The red Angus bull also had lower performance that translated into a $ 75.00 lower gross on the steers. What does this mean? You can use carefully selected Charolais calving ease bulls on modern growthy heifers of Charolais or even British breeding and make it work If the management and know how is there.</p><p>Since you are in Sweden you may want to try and use some of the bulls I mentioned on your cows. North American Charolais are the most maternal and growthy of any strains in the Charolais breed. Look at the bloodlines use in Norge and Svenska; most of them are North American due to calving ease, growth, and maternal capabilities. Lastly the Red Charolais has just about wiped out the Blonde D'Aquitaine in Canada. Bonde D'Aquitaine bulls are not consistent compared to a Charolais. For one of the reasons Bondes lost market share look at: <a href="http://www.charolaisbanner.com/dbarl/semen10/pierce.htm" target="_blank">http://www.charolaisbanner.com/dbarl/semen10/pierce.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VLS_GUY, post: 786318, member: 13182"] Anazazi, We have experience calving large groups of Charolais cross and well grown out British continental cross heifers to Charolais bulls with birth weights of -3.0 or less with no problems. Our bull customers started doing this against our advice on Hereford Fleckvieh cross heifers because the Charolais bull they bought had the lightest birth weight of all the bulls they purchased that year. That bull worked well with none of the 35 calves produced needing a hand on them at birth. The Red Angus bull in the pasture with him was not ideal for heifers with a 97 pond birth weight and he had a few light pulls. The red Angus bull also had lower performance that translated into a $ 75.00 lower gross on the steers. What does this mean? You can use carefully selected Charolais calving ease bulls on modern growthy heifers of Charolais or even British breeding and make it work If the management and know how is there. Since you are in Sweden you may want to try and use some of the bulls I mentioned on your cows. North American Charolais are the most maternal and growthy of any strains in the Charolais breed. Look at the bloodlines use in Norge and Svenska; most of them are North American due to calving ease, growth, and maternal capabilities. Lastly the Red Charolais has just about wiped out the Blonde D'Aquitaine in Canada. Bonde D'Aquitaine bulls are not consistent compared to a Charolais. For one of the reasons Bondes lost market share look at: [url=http://www.charolaisbanner.com/dbarl/semen10/pierce.htm]http://www.charolaisbanner.com/dbarl/semen10/pierce.htm[/url] [/QUOTE]
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