Just Realized

[FlyingLSimmentals]

I was getting number tags ready among other things to get the herd fully worked and realized we had more calves with white on them than solids. There is 13 marked ones whether it be star & snip, blaze, white face or excess white and 9 solids. 12 heifers and 10 bulls. Besides a few last year it has just been a really good while since we have had any calves that weren't solid colored. I have used a few Simmental bulls on a few females trying to get a few blaze face and star face calves but several just didn't throw the blaze out. Now I got one whom seems he might deliver it a lot and occasionally too much white but at least all the calves have been Black, BW, Gray or GW and no red and white or reds. Plus they have also all been polled so I like that. Wouldn't have thought this bull would have sired that much white, he has just a blaze face. Think it probably comes from his Built Right dam. Anyway I thought I try and share pics of several through out the summer while they are nursing grazing and growing. Just thought I share what's happening here. PS, It 's also trying to rain at the moment gonna keep things green all summer, fingers crossed.

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

Thought I would post the most colored up first. Well, just happened to have them on camera already.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice pic,s
Had simis 80s an 90s
Had my share calveing problems too .but im still in love with them .guess thats my down fall ! just not crazzy about all the black hype going on these days .Keep them pic,s comming

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

 

[Anonymous]

Nice looking calves .

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

Thanks mooo. Here are a few more.

 

[inyati13]

Mike:

You got your MO going. Very nice calves.

 

[Lucky_P]

We used PRS Blazin' Hot W192 last year on most of the higher% Simmental and baldy cows - got more white/blaze faces and chrome than we have with any other Simmental sire we've used in the past 10 years... including Long's Shear Pleasure and JF Milestone - both white-faced/blaze-faced sires.

 

[frieghttrain]

Do you get docked at the sale barn? Very pretty calves

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

Thanks Ron.
Lucky I've heard that about Blazin Hot and have seen a few. What I've seen I liked. We've had some Dream Doctor, Steel Force, Star Power genetics and never did get much chrome out of them. I have wanted to get a few AI to Milestone and Blazin Hot but running a herd bull just fits our operation the best. Occasionally I'll get a few AIed mostly heifers.
Joe haven't had this much white in several years. Figure the three in the first pics would get docked at the sale barn we usually go to for the excessive markings. Another barn we've gone to doesn't appear as strict. Two are heifers and we're thinking on retaining them as dams and breeding them to a proven solid colored sire. The other is a bull he's bred up to purebred status but he's probably to colored up to sell as a commercial bull. Most likely he'll go to the barn that isn't as strict on colors. We'll see how they turn out. Figure the rest will sell fine. As long as I don't get a large amount of splashing colored calves I don't mind having say a hand full.

 

[Lucky_P]

Good looking calves Mike.
I still have a lot of cows with the color dilution gene - those gray/brown ones are the ones that typically take a hit at the barn here - even when they're not rat-tails, they treat them like they are... though sometimes they sell as a 'Char-X' (no Charolais in any of mine... or at least none in the last 30 years), and top the sale.

Have one cow family(all black(red-carriers) with some underline chrome) that I know carries the spotting gene... even with solid color bulls (Simmental or Shorthorn), they'll throw chromed-up calves.

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

One born yesterday, a large nice bull calf.

 

[creekdrive]

Your calves look really good! Love all those flashy blaze faces!

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

A solid colored purebred Simmental bull calf.

 

[frieghttrain]

They're really shaping up Mike!
Joe

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

Thanks Joe!

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

Got a new camera so I'm giving it a test run figuring it's capabilities and how to use it etc... so I may end up posting more pics here. It hasn't got much of a zoom so that's a downer I didn't realize when I ordered. But it's better than what I had last by a mile.

 

[inyati13]

A solid colored purebred Simmental bull calf.

He looks very nice.

 

[FlyingLSimmentals]

Ron he's out of Ms. Crush one of my soda pop named red heifers that I had posted on the board before. I think she is doing great with her first calf, but we've had plenty of rain to help her.