Not bad for a bottle calf

[greatgerts]

This was taken with my phone, but this is one MASSIVE bull. He isn't real framey, but is going to really put some rear on my calves.
I am posting this so that some of the newbies can see that if done right, bottle calves can grow just like the others.

 

[dun]

Now if we could just get people to realize what it takes to raise a proper bottle calf we would be making some progress

 

[alacattleman]

bull looks good, and you did good, but what happen to mammy?

 

[saintgert]

What's his breeding?

 

[Alice]

From someone who has well grown bottle calves that have made us some money...Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Alice

 

[cowboy43]

My question is: Can you do this everytime or was this like that one ( Shot of a lifetime ) that can not be ever duplicated ?

 

[Kingfisher]

This was taken with my phone, but this is one MASSIVE bull. He isn't real framey, but is going to really put some rear on my calves.
I am posting this so that some of the newbies can see that if done right, bottle calves can grow just like the others.

Come on man! Tell us the rest of the story! Peace.

 

[Kingfisher]

From someone who has well grown bottle calves that have made us some money...Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Alice

I bet he weighs three thousand pounds.............

 

[hillsdown]

Now if we could just get people to realize what it takes to raise a proper bottle calf we would be making some progress

That I agree with 100% ....... :banana:

 

[Santas and Duhram Reds]

Bud,
What's in his pedigree?

 

[greatgerts]

I didn't raise him. I bought him a few weeks ago. He is an ET calf from King Ranch Ricardo and a Navidad Ranch cow. I need to ask what happened to the recip cow, but I think she just didn't nurse. I can ask the breeder when I talk to him.
We had a full brother to him and was more than pleased with the calves. I had seen this bull when we had gotten the other one and was impressed then, but he wasn't for sale. :cry2:
I had purchased a load of cows from the man that had him and he offered me the bull. At first, I really didn't think about adding ANOTHER bull to our battery (I was planning on using one of my young bulls, which I still may do), but after I got back home, I was kicking myself because this was one heck of a bull. So, we called him up and said we'd take him.
I guess I could say that injury to the brother we had is why we do not have him anymore. I wanted to keep using him, but since he couldn't, I had purchased another bull back in May.
The calves from the 2 brothers come pretty small. Extremes are 65-90lbs. The heifers have been 100% polled, and I have only had 1 polled bull from the last bull. This new bull is polled himself and has produced mainly polled calves.

Here is the pedigree on this bull for anyone interested.
http://www.abraonline.org/online/cg...20&5=515B5D5F5C&6=585C5C235A2058272E&9=525A52

 

[backhoeboogie]

Now if we could just get people to realize what it takes to raise a proper bottle calf we would be making some progress

I'd go out on a limb and say sometimes calves are better off on a bottle. Notably for heifers perhaps bred to young.

Calves grafted to my nurse cow are getting way more milk than they would on momma. Richer milk too.

 

[Kingfisher]

How much does he weigh? What is his name?

 

[greatgerts]

I haven't run him across the scales yet. We've only had him 2 weeks and the weather hasn't been the best to move them around. He was named kind of after me: Bud.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Can you imagine what he would have been worth '65 or so?

 

[djinwa]

Bottle raised bulls are supposed to want to kill you.

 

[greatgerts]

Bottle raised bulls are supposed to want to kill you.

You just have to be careful with them as ANY other bull. Bottle fed cattle think that they are pets because they were handled so much as youngsters. They can turn on you just like any other, you just have to be "more" careful around them. People think that because they were bottle-fed, they are not going to hurt you and do not use caution like they should.