FlyingLSimmentals":1y99oypq said:Thanks everyone! Ron, both heifers on the ends are PB Simmentals the middle heifer is 1/2 Simmental, 1/4 Gelbvieh, and a 1/4 Red Poll. They are sired out of my Black Invasion son I purchased at the Bulls of The Bluegrass Sale from Indian Creek Simmentals out of Ohio. Double Diamond at that sale had only black ones consigned, maybe sometimes or the other I'll get to see some of their red ones. Really did enjoy talking to them and they did have some nice bulls there. We've said here for years that our red ones tend to grow quicker than the black calves for some reason or the other, therefore the red calves get just as much of a chance on becoming replacements as the black counterparts. Our herd is pretty much 50-50 with reds and blacks, well there is 1 white. I really like running Heterozygous Black Bulls giving me opportunities to keep or offer red and black calves. Don't know yet if my new Packin Heat blaze face bull will be Hetero or Homo but maybe he'll add a star or blaze occasionally.
So you guys do about like what we do. We had a red sim bull that died this winter. But, almost every red calf we have is out of him. I've been told on this forum that our calves are not uniform, but it appears that many on here have red and black cattle also. I like keeping the red sims to bred to our angus bulls. And then from there i like keeping those crosses as replacements also. We arent 50/50 red black anymore, we started our mixing around 10 years ago. Most of our cows from 2006 and up, will be angus/sim, black, black w/f and red, red w/f...but we get mostly black, black w/f calves..FlyingLSimmentals":3m21cv80 said:Thanks everyone! Ron, both heifers on the ends are PB Simmentals the middle heifer is 1/2 Simmental, 1/4 Gelbvieh, and a 1/4 Red Poll. They are sired out of my Black Invasion son I purchased at the Bulls of The Bluegrass Sale from Indian Creek Simmentals out of Ohio. Double Diamond at that sale had only black ones consigned, maybe sometimes or the other I'll get to see some of their red ones. Really did enjoy talking to them and they did have some nice bulls there. We've said here for years that our red ones tend to grow quicker than the black calves for some reason or the other, therefore the red calves get just as much of a chance on becoming replacements as the black counterparts. Our herd is pretty much 50-50 with reds and blacks, well there is 1 white. I really like running Heterozygous Black Bulls giving me opportunities to keep or offer red and black calves. Don't know yet if my new Packin Heat blaze face bull will be Hetero or Homo but maybe he'll add a star or blaze occasionally.
I like the looks of that cow. Nice picture.FlyingLSimmentals":2kxiag6y said:Have had good luck with our heifers over the last several years. We have sold a few to other operations, and we tend to retain a few each year for replacements as well as purchasing some from time to time. Can't recall of having any calving trouble from any of them and have had no bad reports from the other operations we have sold some to. Hopefully I didn't just jinx myself and these will continue the trend. I usually will have our heifers in a lot to watch them at calving to be there if assistance is needed. Sometimes I feel lazy and just want to leave them in the pasture. But then I'll remember all the ones we've had to pull before in the past from heifers and how hard it is to help one in the pasture and that motivates me to get them in the calving lot. Here's the latest heifer that has calved, she's a commercial that got bred later than we had thought but had no trouble with her little 7/2/14 bull. As long as I find them like this I'm a happy guy. Calling the little bull Independence or Cotton Ball. He has a white tip on his tail but night black everywhere else.