Crossbred bull

[lithuanian farmer]

He's 17 months old now. I took those pics today. He's half brother to my heifer( by another homebred bull).

Will be sold to slaughter next month. Very gentle bull.

 

[kenny thomas]

Good looking calf. Am I correct in thinking that all the male cattle slaughtered there are still intact. None are steers?

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Good looking calf. Am I correct in thinking that all the male cattle slaughtered there are still intact. None are steers?

Yes, all are real bulls, all we've ever sold.

 

[Chuckie]

He sure put on some muscle. He is a good looking animal. What cross is he?

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

Does he have BB in him? With the pop of muscle, he sure looks it!

 

[glacierridge]

Gonna be a high yielding carcass!!

 

[lithuanian farmer]

His dam is my heifers dam: 25% Angus, 25% Salers, 25% BB, 25% dairy.
Sire is the first homebred bull we've used in herd: 50% Angus, 25% Limousin, 25% dairy.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Gonna be a high yielding carcass!!

Should be over 60%. Will sell bulls next month, so I'll let you know how he'll suceed.
He's the best bull we've this year for sale.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Have sold bulls two days ago. So here are the results. A little bit dissapointed about live weights.
Sire was the same: 1/2 Angus, 3/8 Limousine, 1/8 dairy.
Will start from the worst ones.
13,5 months old out of 1/2 Hereford, 1/2 dairy cow. Live weight 1071lbs, carcass weight 532,8lbs, O3 grade.

17 months old bull(from twins), out of 1/2 Charolais, 1/2 dairy cow. Live weight 970lbs, carcass weight 507,5lbs. O3 grade.

15 months old bull out of 1/2 Limousine, 1/2 dairy cow. Live weight 1078lbs, carcass weight 593,49lbs, R2 grade.

19 months old bull, out of 1/2 Hereford, 1/2 dairy cow. Live weight 1424lbs, carcass weight 776,5lbs, R2 grade.

18 months old out of 1/2 Charolais, 1/2 dairy cow. Live weight 1287,5lbs, carcass weight 716,85lbs, U2 grade( but more like R grade).

17 months old out of 1/2 Angus, 1/2 dairy cow. Live weight 1355,8lbs, carcass weight 770,34lbs, U2 grade.

18 months old, out of 1/4 Angus, 1/4 Salers, 1/4 BB, 1/4 dairy cow. Live weight 1380lbs, carcass weight 807,59lbs, U1 grade.

For R grade should get ~2,93EUR/kilo carcass weight, for U grade ~3,04EUR/kilo carcass weight. For O the least, but don't know how exactly.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

#7 Cant figure it out,, his sire must be a heck of a angus bull,,,,, or his dam is a """he#@@@""" of a dairy cow.... :cowboy:

 

[lithuanian farmer]

#7 Cant figure it out,, his sire must be a heck of a angus bull,,,,, or his dam is a """he#@@@""" of a dairy cow.... :cowboy:

:lol: His sire pic when he was 20 months old.

His dam this summer, 4 years old( my heifers dam too).

It's impossible to believe that those two could produce such a nice calf, but that's a good example that using crossbred bull in herd sometimes are cheap and not the worst way.
Bull and cow don't look impressive, but they both have very good genetics in them.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

well he's definitely superior to his parents...

 

[Nesikep]

Nice stuff!.. My big old steer that I sold last year got butchered last week at 30 months old, his carcass weight was 940 lbs after trimming a lot of fat.. don't know what his live weight was but I think it was about 1700 lbs

I have also found that the not-so-impressive cows sometimes have the best offspring.. my first heifer was a hereford cross with perhaps some fleckvieh? she was pretty skinny, and some people said "the worst thing i've ever seen", but her daughters have outperformed the better looking cows time and time again, and have lived to produce nearly double the calves of the herd average... The proof of that is that after 22 years, I'm just ending the second generation, and starting the 4th, while the other cows are ending the 3rd generation and starting the 6th..

You have nice animals, and they all seem to be really nice and tame too!

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Yes, that's true. This cow aren't the worst looking in the herd, but produces the one of the best calves. Had just two yet, but hope she'll produce more good calves. Her granddam was very good dairy cow, we've two her daughters,both 1/2 BB and both produces the most muscular bulls and heifers, and their daughters produces one of the best calves too. Very good genetics. I've posted pics one of those dairy cow's daughters and two yearling heifers pics out of those 1/2 BB cows earlier.
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[inyati13]

You get up close and personal with your cattle. May I suggest you protect your feet. After having my foot stepped on a couple of times, I got a pair of hard toes with instep guards. If your boots are not hardtoed, you are going to get a good feel of how much weight they put on one foot.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

You get up close and personal with your cattle. May I suggest you protect your feet. After having my foot stepped on a couple of times, I got a pair of hard toes with instep guards. If your boots are not hardtoed, you are going to get a good feel of how much weight they put on one foot.

I know that feel when cow or even calf stands on foot. Our vet told us that one time his cow stood on his foot and as he said he was shouting, but she was not moving.
I and my parents have hardtoed boots, because don't want to get hurt seriously.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

You get up close and personal with your cattle. May I suggest you protect your feet. After having my foot stepped on a couple of times, I got a pair of hard toes with instep guards. If your boots are not hardtoed, you are going to get a good feel of how much weight they put on one foot.

:cowboy:

 

[Chuckie]

Your bull reminds me of the Rito 6I6 Bull. He sure is muscled up pretty.

 

[Nesikep]

I've been stepped on sooo many times.. I can handle up to about a 1000 lb animal, beyond that is a bit much

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Your bull reminds me of the Rito 6I6 Bull. He sure is muscled up pretty.

Thank you.