WalnutCrest
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We have a group of Aubrac sired calves coming out of a Jersey dairy here in a couple of months.
Bulls for young beef and heifers for possible recips.
Bulls for young beef and heifers for possible recips.
farmerjan":b5st4des said:Yeah, kinda short for me :lol: :lol: :lol:
WalnutCrest":7slohx5f said:We have a group of Aubrac sired calves coming out of a Jersey dairy here in a couple of months.
Bulls for young beef and heifers for possible recips.
Bullitt":2qic76cn said:WalnutCrest":2qic76cn said:We have a group of Aubrac sired calves coming out of a Jersey dairy here in a couple of months.
Bulls for young beef and heifers for possible recips.
There is another way to use the heifers -- implant them with embryos.
How much does it cost per embryo? Do you implant them yourself? What breed of cattle do you implant?
WalnutCrest":1sh8zi8f said:We use Aubrac semen on Jersey cows.
The resulting bull calves are sold as young beef and the heifers are retained for development to be recip cows.
We raise fullblood Aubrac and Mashona cattle and F1s (each direction).
I like to think we have outstanding calves, but in reality, good reds do just as well as good blacks here. I have several customers that buy/lease bulls from me prefer a red bull, be it red Angus or red Limi.Bullitt":1qwpaapg said:Boot Jack Bulls":1qwpaapg said:Probably more Angus (red and black) influence than anything. Some of the biggest Limi breeders in the country are up her in WI and MN, but they have a more select following and less breed based marketing compared to Angus. The rare time we send one of our Limis through a sale barn, they usually top the area sales for the week, not just day. Having said that, we breed for a mainstream look. Most people can tell they are Limis, but they don't have the super round hip and fine bone many people associate with the breed. We have Red Angus, Black Angus, Limis and the Lim-flex composites. We shoot for an animal that has breed character, but fits the modern market and can compete in the ring. This is a group of fall born Red Angus sired calves out of our Limi cows.
Those calves look good.
Are you saying the red calves do as well in the sale barn there as black calves in general, or do you just have outstanding red calves?
Bullitt":cpnb3a16 said:WalnutCrest":cpnb3a16 said:We use Aubrac semen on Jersey cows.
The resulting bull calves are sold as young beef and the heifers are retained for development to be recip cows.
We raise fullblood Aubrac and Mashona cattle and F1s (each direction).
Maybe I do not know all the lingo. I was thinking recips was short for recipient cows, as in recipients of embryos.
What are recips?
I had to look up Mashona cattle. It seems Mashona cattle share some similar traits as Brahman cattle.
farmerjan":3as0hjiy said:Getting good nurse cows is the trick. Not all cows will take other calves. I find that the ones I raise from calves often are more accepting than the ones I have bought. But not always. My guernseys tend to be more accepting, but these last few 3/4 jersey 1/4 holsteins have been sweethearts. Up until this last jersey, I have had pretty good luck with them.
farmerjan said:It's hard to really say, but I have found that older cows either are great or are horrible. The younger ones tend to be more "kicky", and are faster, so it is hard to get away if they take a notion. So I tend to go with older cows. quote]
We end up with 3 or 4 extra calves per year from the beef herd. My wife loves to bottle feed them for a week or two. Gets to be work after that. I promised her a "good nurse cow" next spring. Holsteins are common here, but there are a couple jersey cows going thru the sales barn each week. Sounds like I should buy three old late lactation Jerseys and keep the one that does not kick much?
Stocker Steve":2yx40ekw said:We end up with 3 or 4 extra calves per year from the beef herd. My wife loves to bottle feed them for a week or two. Gets to be work after that. I promised her a "good nurse cow" next spring. Holsteins are common here, but there are a couple jersey cows going thru the sales barn each week. Sounds like I should buy three old late lactation Jerseys and keep the one that does not kick much?
milkmaid":37voz3pv said:I'd try contacting a progressive local dairy and ask to look over their culls. We cull far harder than most people but often have nice, bred, late lactation cows that don't produce enough milk/are too fat to stay.