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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1779592" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>I guess he does it at actually 205 days because there are just 16 heifer calves, from just 2 donor dams. He had 2 -3 reach that age the same day, and all but one was weaned in about 6 days. The other was .... I think he said.... 3 weeks behind the others. </p><p></p><p>Now, I remember the SImms we first got down here in the late 60's or early 70's being about the same color as a Hereford. The paler, almost yellow ones I remember, were ones shown in the new-at-that-time commercial steer and heifer categories at the fairs that were Char/ Simm crosses. My little brother showed these for 3 years in high school, and just turned them out with our grand daddy's angus herd every year. They never had any trouble calving at all, and had black baldy calves every year that you could almost stand in the pasture every day and watch them grow. They would almost consistently weigh 75-100lbs more than the pb Angus at weaning. None of these calves came out smokey, but there were only 6 of these cows at the most. If we had more in number I am sure that dilute gene would have shown up in some of the calves. I am surprised we don't see more of these cows today. </p><p></p><p>In 78-79, I was dating a barrel racer who's daddy raised registered Simmental, the red & white ones. He bought 8 Chi-angus cows at a UGA sale, and bred them to one of his Simm bulls. They raised some gigantic black baldies, and he sold those heifers for what he sold his reg Simms for. I don't think you could get Chi-Angus bulls back then in the US, so be bred some of his reg Simm cows to a Brangus that year, and got the same results. Big ole black baldies with a touch of ear. When she and I parted ways at the end of 79, he was only breeding his 10 or so best Simm cows..out of his 50 cow herd..to Simm bulls. The rest he bred to Brangus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1779592, member: 40587"] I guess he does it at actually 205 days because there are just 16 heifer calves, from just 2 donor dams. He had 2 -3 reach that age the same day, and all but one was weaned in about 6 days. The other was .... I think he said.... 3 weeks behind the others. Now, I remember the SImms we first got down here in the late 60's or early 70's being about the same color as a Hereford. The paler, almost yellow ones I remember, were ones shown in the new-at-that-time commercial steer and heifer categories at the fairs that were Char/ Simm crosses. My little brother showed these for 3 years in high school, and just turned them out with our grand daddy's angus herd every year. They never had any trouble calving at all, and had black baldy calves every year that you could almost stand in the pasture every day and watch them grow. They would almost consistently weigh 75-100lbs more than the pb Angus at weaning. None of these calves came out smokey, but there were only 6 of these cows at the most. If we had more in number I am sure that dilute gene would have shown up in some of the calves. I am surprised we don't see more of these cows today. In 78-79, I was dating a barrel racer who's daddy raised registered Simmental, the red & white ones. He bought 8 Chi-angus cows at a UGA sale, and bred them to one of his Simm bulls. They raised some gigantic black baldies, and he sold those heifers for what he sold his reg Simms for. I don't think you could get Chi-Angus bulls back then in the US, so be bred some of his reg Simm cows to a Brangus that year, and got the same results. Big ole black baldies with a touch of ear. When she and I parted ways at the end of 79, he was only breeding his 10 or so best Simm cows..out of his 50 cow herd..to Simm bulls. The rest he bred to Brangus. [/QUOTE]
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