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[lithuanian farmer]

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.

I would agree on that. He might have no myostatin mutation, so not double muscled. At least his sire isn't a carrier to my knowledge. We had a lim bull, which had at least one copy of myostatin, but he was a completely different type of animal.
Blondes as a breed aren't double muscled. They do not carry any kind of myostatin mutation.
Alot depends from what kind of myostatin mutation(-s) is in the animal and what kind of cows bulls are used on.
Big bones, big frame will cause more issues than abit more flesh most of the time. That's why traditional charolais are often harder calved, while so called culard (double muscled) charolais are pretty easy calved.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "some" breeds' newborns aren't born with the DB, it develops later?? Seems like I was told that many years ago.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "some" breeds' newborns aren't born with the DB, it develops later?? Seems like I was told that many years ago.

It depends from myostatin mutation. There are 9 variations. Three of them, as you said, means that calf is born plain, but develops muscles quickly after birth. Some breeds can have a couple different mutations, so it's better to know which kinds are in each animal. The same animal can have one copy of a so called good mutation and a copy of the mutation, which causes big birth weights and big muscularity at birth. Just like an animal can have only one copy of myostatin mutation (heterozygous) and only 50% of the progeny would get it.

 

[Texas Ranch Hand]

Brad the Bull. Our Limousin- got him on angus and as of this year, going to try him on some longhorn.

 

[crossbreed]

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.

Guess sexting for bull calves might get more lbs. ? Just thinking of the possibility out loud. 8-9 hundred pound stockers has a nice ring to it

 

[crossbreed]

Brad the Bull. Our Limousin- got him on angus and as of this year, going to try him on some longhorn.

Might throw some meat on the lh. I had decent luck with the char/lh when I had them

 

[TCRanch]

I'll be darned, finally got a dignified pic of Woody posing. Okay, "dignified" is subjective and clearly still in working mode.View attachment 45557View attachment 45558

Quoting my own post. Gotta brag on this big boy. I needed to pull him, move him to the east 80 with the other bulls but just haven't had the perfect opportunity. I'll be damned, yesterday morning he was standing at the corner gate, far away from the cows. Like he knows the drill and was ready to move over with his homies (and get away from raging hormones?). Okay, game on. I opened the gate, and he simply walked across the road with me and stood there while I opened the gate to the east 80. I always have an adrenaline rush when I move the bulls because there's always a chance they'll go rogue and take off down the road. Plus, it's on a corner intersection, so they have 3 directions in which to bolt. Whew! Wish it was always this easy!

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

 

[BC]

Here is my herd bull

 

[Ky hills]

Here our Angus bull at just under 18 months old.

 

[Hoser]

My yearling Hereford after running with 22 heifers.

 

[diana55]

Our bull used on heifers. Son of Musgrave Exclusive.

 

[alacowman1]

Our bull used on heifers. Son of Musgrave Exclusive.

A Good looking rascal

 

[K3ranch]

One of the angus herd bulls we have raised that we are using this year

 

[simme]

One of the angus herd bulls we have raised that we are using this year

Ripper son?