I don't just raise Simmentals. I have a small herd of Reg. Simmentals and a large herd of Commercial cattle with several breeds being represented. In this herd I have a few Purebred Limousin cows. I try not to pick on any particular breed because they all can offer needed characteristics at a particular needed time. Why I mentioned anything on this thread was because those Limousin cows I have, tend to have the lowest selling calves each year and it's not because they aren't good calves. What I've been told is because it's the large round muscle in the rump. The other problem I have with them is that they are the wildest, stubborn, and worst disposition cows on the farm. I always dread herd work day when one of them comes to the headgate. It's a bunch of blowing, down on the knees, head swinging etc... and they do it before we even touch them. Now they weren't raised here on the farm like some of the rest therefore maybe it was something their original breeder did to them I don't know, but they can be a handful. I keep them around because they are good milkers, breed back as scheduled, and have nice calves. Therefore I would buy a Lim-Flex before anymore Limousins to hopefully get a more desired calf for the buyers around here. All the Lim-Flex I've seen look good and have well dispositions. I probably would buy a Sim-Angus or a Balancer first just because I have more Simmental and Gelbvieh influence in my herds and there is alot more of those breeders around here. Started the Reg. Simmi Herd because I always wanted to raise Reg. Stock and there is bigger well known breeders of that breed in my area. To be honest I'm the most partcial to the Gelbvieh's but it was to hard to find good breeding stock around here because of the low supply of breeders in the area and I didn't have time to pick up some elsewhere when we started our Reg. Operation.
I did try to keep one of my Limousin's, heifer calf for a replacement along with two other sim cross, and gelbvieh cross heifers. The Limousin heifer wouldn't stop to eat with here mates, all she could do was run in a circle around the weaning pen. She jumped a gate into another pen and then jumped its fence to get out in the lot, all within less than 10 minutes of being in the pen and the fences aren't that short. Meanwhile the other two ate their feed did some bauling and weaned pretty easily. The next time the Limousin heifer was up, she went through the exit hole into the livestock trailer and we had to get her through it in a hurry or she was gonna be at it again. It's to bad because she would have made a nice cow maybe crazy but nice.