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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1660135" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>If your some of your cows are baldies, they can have a percentage of red calves if bred to a red bull. On the subject of calving ease, yes, cows can generally have calves without assistance. If it were me though, I would still go with a no more than a moderate BW bull with not much below breed average for CE. I say that because of crossbreeding especially to a traditionally larger continental breed bull then hybrid vigor will also affect the size of calves at birth too. Since you have full time work, you don't want to be having to do much calving assistance. I don't know for sure, and bulls are all different in terms of calf shape, but I have always suspected that larger calves sometimes can make for a higher percentage of abnormal presentation births that require assistance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1660135, member: 24816"] If your some of your cows are baldies, they can have a percentage of red calves if bred to a red bull. On the subject of calving ease, yes, cows can generally have calves without assistance. If it were me though, I would still go with a no more than a moderate BW bull with not much below breed average for CE. I say that because of crossbreeding especially to a traditionally larger continental breed bull then hybrid vigor will also affect the size of calves at birth too. Since you have full time work, you don't want to be having to do much calving assistance. I don't know for sure, and bulls are all different in terms of calf shape, but I have always suspected that larger calves sometimes can make for a higher percentage of abnormal presentation births that require assistance. [/QUOTE]
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