Hpacres440p
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He's 14 months old and 1/3 Aberdeen (Lowline), but home-raised and filling a need. Might not be a super bull, but he works for us for now.
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How can an animal be 1/3rd anything?
Hpacres440p
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Sire was 65%, cut that in half, that's about 1/3, right? Or 32.5% if you want percentages….
Sire may have been 62.5%...5/8ths. So he would be 5/16ths....31.25%. You can't divide 1/4s, 1/8s, 1/16s, 1/32s etc., by 3.
Hpacres440p
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I was rounding, make him 5/16ths then.
I'll be darned, finally got a dignified pic of Woody posing. Okay, "dignified" is subjective and clearly still in working mode.
Jeanne - Simme Valley
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He is a BEAST!!! Nice bull!
Great looking bull, TC. How old is he?
Thanks! He turned 6 Jan 30th. Super docile and easy to work. Twice, I've pulled a stick from between his toes in the pasture and he just stands there while I'm tugging with needle nose pliers and digging with a screwdriver. Remember The Lion and the Mouse?
Jeanne - Simme Valley
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And you hand feed him sulfa boluses!!! LOL
BEJ
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Two year old home raised sim/angus cross liking the calves out of him gonna keep on using him
lithuanian farmer
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Hopefully a herdbull for the next year. Getting some tips from his mom how he needs to aproach a woman, it seems today. 5 months old.
crossbreed
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Anyone have experience or opinion on how calves like this would sell in US or in Texas? Lotta size and muscle there
Jeanne - Simme Valley
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Many of you will remember Lava, our bull calf shown with his dam Java (c/c) and won all over - then sold to a young lady in Florida. Well, here is Macchiato (twin to Mocha a heifer that we are getting blood tested this week - hoping not a freemartin. I know, chances are slim, but most of my freemartins are "visibly" not right. This one looks perfect. Fingers crossed)
I posted their birth. Had to have a vet out because she never went into labor.
We split the heifer twin off and put on a cow that had dead twins. This is him at about 1 month old.
This is him today, 5 months old. He is fighting the halter and not standing quite right, but you can see the good in him.
I posted their birth. Had to have a vet out because she never went into labor.
We split the heifer twin off and put on a cow that had dead twins. This is him at about 1 month old.
This is him today, 5 months old. He is fighting the halter and not standing quite right, but you can see the good in him.
Jeanne - Simme Valley
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Most Texas (and US) cows couldn't calve to them. My cows are fairly large and I wouldn't want to put one of L Farmer's bulls on them.
M.Magis
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I believe double muscle calves get discounted.
Travlr
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I think you're right. I had a bunch of apple butts in the early to mid 80's and they brought good money but then people got scared of them because people with crappy cattle had some poor calving results and the fear took hold and the double muscled calves started to be discounted. Personally, I only had one bad calving experience with double muscled bulls and that was because the calf was a monster. Experienced, capable cows spit them out just fine.
wbvs58
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Jeanne - Simme Valley
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Double muscle is discriminated against because USDA grading rejects DM carcasses.
Silver
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I doubt that calf is double muscled. We used (and raised) Blonde d'Aquitaine bulls for years. Our cows were perfectly capable of having them, just as easily as from Simmental.
