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<blockquote data-quote="cowgirl8" data-source="post: 1204846" data-attributes="member: 22072"><p>LBW does not mean small and weak. When i first came to this forum there was a discussion just like this. And i believe i pointed it out then too, small does not mean sickly. We use young angus LBW bulls on our heifers. Depending on the bull, we hope to get anything from 40 to 60 pounds and nothing over. One year we had an average of 30lbs out of some new lbw bulls. They came out standing up, were very vigorous and it was a very wet cold frozen year. We didnt lose a single one. On the other hand, if one of our mature cows bred to a lbw bull has a 40 pound calf, there may be a problem with that calf. LBW bulls dont do the same size on a mature cow. In fact, if you put the same bull but older on mature cows, their calves will be a good easy birthing size for that cow. </p><p>There is no point in trying to get the biggest calf a heifer can handle that first year. You can drop a 70 pound calf and if that first year that heifer doesnt give much milk, that hard birth wasnt worth it. And, if you have a heifer calve during the night and its a long hard birth, sometimes those heifers dont stand right away. If the sack is still on the calf, it dies. The longer and harder the birth, the more calves you'll lose if you are not around with heifers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowgirl8, post: 1204846, member: 22072"] LBW does not mean small and weak. When i first came to this forum there was a discussion just like this. And i believe i pointed it out then too, small does not mean sickly. We use young angus LBW bulls on our heifers. Depending on the bull, we hope to get anything from 40 to 60 pounds and nothing over. One year we had an average of 30lbs out of some new lbw bulls. They came out standing up, were very vigorous and it was a very wet cold frozen year. We didnt lose a single one. On the other hand, if one of our mature cows bred to a lbw bull has a 40 pound calf, there may be a problem with that calf. LBW bulls dont do the same size on a mature cow. In fact, if you put the same bull but older on mature cows, their calves will be a good easy birthing size for that cow. There is no point in trying to get the biggest calf a heifer can handle that first year. You can drop a 70 pound calf and if that first year that heifer doesnt give much milk, that hard birth wasnt worth it. And, if you have a heifer calve during the night and its a long hard birth, sometimes those heifers dont stand right away. If the sack is still on the calf, it dies. The longer and harder the birth, the more calves you'll lose if you are not around with heifers. [/QUOTE]
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