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[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

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2-year old - calved that night - HEIFER!!!

5 year old with heifer on side

2-year old with bull calf

 

[WORANCH]

Good lookn cows .

 

[Gators Rule]

Cow #1: Not enough length
Cow #2: Top line not straight enough
Cow #3: Too polled

 

[TexasBred]

Very nice cattle even tho one has a pretty ragged looking udder. I"m sure it still functions very well. The heifer is "classy".

 

[cow pollinater]

Good looking cattle. The udder is about the only thing that looks like the sims that I've been around but yours is already five and the ones I've seen looked like that as three and four.
Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind, what are they bred like? I'm starting to see alot more sim and simangus genetics floating around and that's new here so I'd like as much insight as I can get.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I totally understand the comments about the 5 yr olds udder - but - on her behalf, it's pretty engorged - the calf is only about 3 days old and has not started sucking all 4 cylinders! It looks a lot better now.
Thanks for your comments Gator - I'll have to work to improve on those traits - especially the poll!
CowPollinator -
#1 is a SV Macho As U (Power Drive x 600U) out of our donor cow SS Nadine (Joke x Breathtaker) Homo Blk & Homo Polled
#2 is a Black Perfector out of a Circle S "Cowtown" bull out of Ohio (a Dice son) Homo Blk
#3 is a BMR Explorer out of a red cow from Hudson Pines. Heteo Black

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

CowPollinator - I typed it wrong. The first heifer's dam is Nadine out of JOKER not Joke. Nadine is the donor cow we just had to ship (in the Breeding & Calving thread)

 

[jscunn]

Jeanne,
Exceptional cattle (as always). Is the udder on the 5yr old perfect, no but anyone with any experience could tell it was engorged and gonna get a whole lot more functional looking very soon.. at least you know that cow is gonna feed her calf well enough to get itt off to aa good start

 

[highgrit]

They look good to me, all mine have long tails and scruffy coats.

 

[JHH]

we need to try and get rid of those bad udders. Yes its bad. does it cause a problem . ? I dont know. I bet calf got up and found what it needed and was on its way. BUT we need to get rid of those types.

Cattle are very good Jeanne. Just dont like the udder. Yes its functional and probably no problem YET. She wont be around in 13-14 yrs unless you milk her to get calf started. BUT WHO KEEPS COWS THAT LONG ANYMORE WITH COW PRICES HIGH.

 

[Jake]

we need to try and get rid of those bad udders. Yes its bad. does it cause a problem . ? I dont know. I bet calf got up and found what it needed and was on its way. BUT we need to get rid of those types.

Cattle are very good Jeanne. Just dont like the udder. Yes its functional and probably no problem YET. She wont be around in 13-14 yrs unless you milk her to get calf started. BUT WHO KEEPS COWS THAT LONG ANYMORE WITH COW PRICES HIGH.

Was looking through records the other day, about 30% of the herd is 12+. Thought we had gotten rid of a bunch of older cows but there are still a bunch around. Have about 15 of them that predate solid records so taht puts them at 15 or 16+

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

This is the first time we took sale pics and NO SNOW! You can actually see their hair. Normally they are flat black with the glare of the snow. Never had a winter like this.

 

[JHH]

we need to try and get rid of those bad udders. Yes its bad. does it cause a problem . ? I dont know. I bet calf got up and found what it needed and was on its way. BUT we need to get rid of those types.

Cattle are very good Jeanne. Just dont like the udder. Yes its functional and probably no problem YET. She wont be around in 13-14 yrs unless you milk her to get calf started. BUT WHO KEEPS COWS THAT LONG ANYMORE WITH COW PRICES HIGH.

Was looking through records the other day, about 30% of the herd is 12+. Thought we had gotten rid of a bunch of older cows but there are still a bunch around. Have about 15 of them that predate solid records so taht puts them at 15 or 16+

What do the udders look like? Thats the point I was trying to make. You have mostly angus influenced cows right?

 

[Jake]

we need to try and get rid of those bad udders. Yes its bad. does it cause a problem . ? I dont know. I bet calf got up and found what it needed and was on its way. BUT we need to get rid of those types.

Cattle are very good Jeanne. Just dont like the udder. Yes its functional and probably no problem YET. She wont be around in 13-14 yrs unless you milk her to get calf started. BUT WHO KEEPS COWS THAT LONG ANYMORE WITH COW PRICES HIGH.

Was looking through records the other day, about 30% of the herd is 12+. Thought we had gotten rid of a bunch of older cows but there are still a bunch around. Have about 15 of them that predate solid records so taht puts them at 15 or 16+

What do the udders look like? Thats the point I was trying to make. You have mostly angus influenced cows right?

Correct, and I need to edit a typo, It's 20% not 30% jsut caught that so I appologize. Trying to do this on a smart phone isn't the easiest.

Udders look very good on the majority of them. The poor udders were already poor when they were young cows. Seems like there isn't much change from 6 to granny stage.