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<blockquote data-quote="creekdrive" data-source="post: 1457374" data-attributes="member: 21216"><p>Thanks all! My favorites are the red calves too but there is no denying when it comes to selling commercial calves Charolais is usually right up at the top. Our commercial herd is a bit of a mix of everything and using Char bulls should hopefully leave a more uniform group and add a little frame. Char cross calves are in good demand at the auction we sell at, so it makes sense to use them. Hope to buy another Char bull for next year and that should leave us with a good sized group of commercial cows bred Char. The rest of our commercial herd will probably be bred to home raised Angus bulls. We feel it's good to use some of our own bulls on our commercial cows, as it gives us a good feel how the bloodlines we are using will work in a commercial setting which is what matters to our bull customers. It also will leave us the option of choosing commercial replacements from the angus sired groups as we don't intend to keep a lot of the Char heifers.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't have any great pictures of him. He's not a very photogenic animal. He's a decent enough bull but not really special by any means. He does move exceptionally well. One of the most free moving animals I've seen. </p><p><img src="https://s20.postimg.org/99lcq44yl/IMG_1069sm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>A picture of him from this past July. So would be about 28 months or so in this picture.</p><p></p><p>We tried something a little different last year and kept back a group of purebred heifers to sell as bred heifers. They sell the first part of December and I'm excited, yet nervous. I think they look great, but I'm sure I'm biased. </p><p>Some crappy cell phone pictures from the last time we checked their pasture:</p><p><img src="https://s20.postimg.org/5pzf0amt9/heifers2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://s20.postimg.org/j6wdj64ul/heifers1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>the heifer on the right is one I'd really like to keep, but can't keep them all!</p><p></p><p>I need to get some better pictures of some of our purebred angus calves. There is some very sweet heifers this year. Very pleased with them so far. Planning to keep almost all of the straight angus heifers for now and will decide down the road whether we try the bred heifer thing again or go some other route with them.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for being so long winded! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="creekdrive, post: 1457374, member: 21216"] Thanks all! My favorites are the red calves too but there is no denying when it comes to selling commercial calves Charolais is usually right up at the top. Our commercial herd is a bit of a mix of everything and using Char bulls should hopefully leave a more uniform group and add a little frame. Char cross calves are in good demand at the auction we sell at, so it makes sense to use them. Hope to buy another Char bull for next year and that should leave us with a good sized group of commercial cows bred Char. The rest of our commercial herd will probably be bred to home raised Angus bulls. We feel it's good to use some of our own bulls on our commercial cows, as it gives us a good feel how the bloodlines we are using will work in a commercial setting which is what matters to our bull customers. It also will leave us the option of choosing commercial replacements from the angus sired groups as we don't intend to keep a lot of the Char heifers. I don't have any great pictures of him. He's not a very photogenic animal. He's a decent enough bull but not really special by any means. He does move exceptionally well. One of the most free moving animals I've seen. [img]https://s20.postimg.org/99lcq44yl/IMG_1069sm.jpg[/img] A picture of him from this past July. So would be about 28 months or so in this picture. We tried something a little different last year and kept back a group of purebred heifers to sell as bred heifers. They sell the first part of December and I'm excited, yet nervous. I think they look great, but I'm sure I'm biased. Some crappy cell phone pictures from the last time we checked their pasture: [img]https://s20.postimg.org/5pzf0amt9/heifers2.jpg[/img] [img]https://s20.postimg.org/j6wdj64ul/heifers1.jpg[/img] the heifer on the right is one I'd really like to keep, but can't keep them all! I need to get some better pictures of some of our purebred angus calves. There is some very sweet heifers this year. Very pleased with them so far. Planning to keep almost all of the straight angus heifers for now and will decide down the road whether we try the bred heifer thing again or go some other route with them. Sorry for being so long winded! :oops: [/QUOTE]
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