thanks for posting the photos, it a real good help.
Do you have any other Frank calves?
Knersie, I have 5 Frank calves. If you want to see their pedgree's you can do a search in the AHA database. Just use LFF for the start of the animals name. I will e-mail you their registeration numbers if you want.
He must have had a really really really light birthweight then THG, Like 0 I'd go ahead and use him on heifers.
THG , he had a 78 pound birthweight. You seem to have doubts about the bull calf or have something about him that displeases you. I realize that Frank does have the 774 bull in his pedgree does that cause you concern?
I am too impressed that a Frank calf weighted that which at 4 months without any feed. That would mean that the calf is gaining over 100lbs. per month.
THG
THG
I'm very pleased with his current rate of gain, however I've seen another Frank calf that you would call dynamite. He was at the 2006 Touchstone sale and had a 900+ weaning weight. I too had have doubts about the numbers for that calf. The calf had been pushed with feed and was from a Highway daughter. That to me is not what raising quality cattle is about , but after seeing my bull calf preform as he has it makes the 900 pound calf more believable.
You can tell by looking at him he's not being fed like crazy. The numbers might be wrong THG. If I remember correctly, you've been wrong before.
I like them, they look like REAL calves. If they were on 15 lbs + I think alot more people would be happy with them, some would even be shocked. Nice calves Ken.
Thanks CPL
The 425 pounds at 4 months is correct. The 100 pounds per month that THG said is a bit incorrect. He has outgrown my 3008 daughter 774 bull calf that I have from KCF and appears to be doing better than the Huths N065 bull calfs as well. I don't know what he would do on feed. I'm afraid that he would get fat instead of increasing groweth.
Who cares about math
The calves look OK, nothing tremendously special about them. They look like decent beef calves. Good job
Hello Oakcreek,
I am not trying to convince anyone that the calves have special phenotype. I believe that the hidden value is the carcass quality and fleshing ablity that they will contribute to Hereford seedstock. As I said in Alan post I don't believe the next great one is here yet. I do believe that it is only one to two generations away.
Were did you get all that green stuff close to the ground?
Havnt seen any of that for months.
It is raining right now....
MD
Hi Redfornow
The green stuff is all that I have left in a small bottom. It did rain about 1/2 inch just before I took the pictures and I recieved a sprinkle a couple of days before. I'm thankful to the good Lord for every drop, we sure need it.[/quote]