Charolais nostalgia

[Ky hills]

Here are some pictures of pictures of some of my Charolais from the early 90's.
Skinny kid is me as teen, with an around 9 month old bull calf that I bought. He broke his shoulder after being out with cows for about a month, he had bred all the cows and left some good daughters.
The big bull walking by in another picture was another purchased bull a couple years later. He was an ET calf from a National Champion bull and reserve National Champion female. He was if I remember a yearling frame 11. Decent bull, for terminal calves, but his pedigree could take the milk out of a Holstein. BW was high too, had several 120# and a couple 135# calves.

 

[SBMF 2015]

You should get a couple again. Those calves lined up at the bunk look GREAT!

 

[farmerjan]

You can get a charolais fix by going on Calving22 and seeing Dubcharo's spring (?) calving... they have some nice ones. Yours looked pretty darn nice in the pictures...

 

[uplandnut]

ky hills, it looks like you had some very nice Charolais. Are you still breeding them or have you gone another direction?

 

[Ky hills]

ky hills, it looks like you had some very nice Charolais. Are you still breeding them or have you gone another direction?

Thanks, That was many years ago. I phased out my registered herd in the mid 90's. Got hit with a double whammy of a hard calving bull, and the market bottomed out for anything not Angus around here. Now I don't even have anything with Charolais influence. Recently been kicking around the idea of bringing in a Charolais bull at some point, and did look at one a year or so ago, but went with a Simmental instead.
I still say that Charolais are a good breed with individuals that can do anything any other breed can. I have always believed that as long as calving ease is present, they are are the best breed to cross with. They just seem to cross good with about any breed.

 

[gcreekrch]

They were a long way off the ground back then.

 

[Josher]

Seems like the charolais cross cattle have been topping the markets for a couple years now. At least up in Canada. Quite tempting to use as a terminal sire.

 

[jschoolcraft86]

Seems like the charolais cross cattle have been topping the markets for a couple years now. At least up in Canada. Quite tempting to use as a terminal sire.

They like char cross down here in Texas too

 

[johnluke]

I am doing pretty good with them so far. I have a few older cows, which are not full breeds with 3 registered Charolais bulls, two years ago purchased a herd of registered calves. Very few are brought to the sale barn most are sold to individuals, wanting to mix the heifers with an Angus bull.

 

[Dave]

I sat through a lot of feeder cattle at the sale yesterday. There were lots of 20 to 40 head where a quarter to half the calves were Char crosses. They sold at the top of the market. B runs about 25 char bulls and 15 Angus bulls. Back in November his calves topped the sale in about every weight class. He doesn't keep any Char heifers as replacements.