Second Upgrade of the Season

[Margonme]

Dam: Daisy
Sire: Upgrade
280 days Post AI
Heifer
96 pounds
Born Unassisted 9/23/16, 3:30 pm.

This is Daisy's third calf. She gets a huge udder. Notice the calf has sucked that front right teat. Amazing. I just checked her about 2 hours before she had the calf. She did great. Calf has nursed. This cow has the weakest pedigree in my 16 cow herd. If her udder gets worse, I may have to ship her but for now, I am happy with her. Very docile as are all of them.

 

 

 

 

[Ky hills]

Nice cow and calf.

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

In my experience, Upgrade will clean up that udder. All of my Upgrades in production have very nice, tidy udders. Super happy you got two heifers from the cows you bred. And the weights are right in line with your averages, which is what I hoped for when we made those matings last fall.

 

[Margonme]

In my experience, Upgrade will clean up that udder. All of my Upgrades in production have very nice, tidy udders. Super happy you got two heifers from the cows you bred. And the weights are right in line with your averages, which is what I hoped for when we made those matings last fall.

You da LADY!

 

[Lazy M]

If you end up keeping the calf as a replacement it'd be a good experiment to see if the bull improves the udder. 2 of my fall heifers that are calving now have really bad udders; I may let one of them slide for another calf, but the other one is gone after the calf is weaned. Really disappointing to put a bunch of time in an otherwise nice looking heifer and then she looks like a octopus is hanging off her belly when she bags up..

 

[Margonme]

If you end up keeping the calf as a replacement it'd be a good experiment to see if the bull improves the udder. 2 of my fall heifers that are calving now have really bad udders; I may let one of them slide for another calf, but the other one is gone after the calf is weaned. Really disappointing to put a bunch of time in an otherwise nice looking heifer and then she looks like a octopus is hanging off her belly when she bags up..

I got 2 cows with undesirable udders. This is one of them. I kept a heifer out of the other cow and the bad udder was not passed on.

I will keep this heifer if everything falls in place. Will be interesting to see how her udder develops.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Another tiny calf, congrats!

 

[Margonme]

Another tiny calf, congrats!

I got 5 more to calve soon. As of now, I got:

95
94
85
96

But I expected my average to go up based on the wet summer. It has been like 7 months of spring. 3 of my next 5 are heifers. But 2 are bred to Uno Mas so I am hoping for something under 90.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Good thing your cattle are built for large calves.

 

[Margonme]

Good thing your cattle are built for large calves.

My cattle handle calves up to 100 pounds. On a couple, they went over 100.

I could have smaller calves. I used Composure Semen. All 3 calves were in the 70s. But they are dinks and stay dinks.

Firesweep knew Upgrade may throw a big calf. I used Upgrade on two that could handle big calves. Thankfully, they were under 100.

My average here is 88 pound calves. Hopefully, the next 5 are in that range.

 

[Supa Dexta]

100 is a good line to draw. Anything below = A OK .. Anything above, proceed with caution.