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<blockquote data-quote="Bigfoot" data-source="post: 1004817" data-attributes="member: 17956"><p>You'll have to excuse us Toad, we get carried away. A low birth weight bull is what you need. I use a corriente on heifers. It's obviously not for everyone. If you haven't calved out a few heifers before, it's probably not a bad way to go. </p><p></p><p>You'll be pretty well guaranteed a smaller calf with a corriente, although every breed has low birth weight bulls. The problem is finding one. I don't personally trust the epd information on a young bull. Many people put a lot of faith in that information. Now, if I could find a bull that some one had gotten a couple of calf crops out of, and I had first hand information that a bull was an easy calver. I might try it. The only problem is you have a little Simmental in your heifers. Which isn't a bad thing. I actually like a black sim cow. My experience on a sim or char cross heifer is that many times they go ahead, and have a big calf bred to a lbw angus bull. </p><p></p><p>Welcome to the boards either way. We are all trying to help, we just get a little sidetracked some times. I will be the first to tell you that the half corriente calves will be smaller at weaning. In my management style, I am more interested in getting as many heifers to their second calf as I can. I have few if any problems many years calving my heifers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigfoot, post: 1004817, member: 17956"] You'll have to excuse us Toad, we get carried away. A low birth weight bull is what you need. I use a corriente on heifers. It's obviously not for everyone. If you haven't calved out a few heifers before, it's probably not a bad way to go. You'll be pretty well guaranteed a smaller calf with a corriente, although every breed has low birth weight bulls. The problem is finding one. I don't personally trust the epd information on a young bull. Many people put a lot of faith in that information. Now, if I could find a bull that some one had gotten a couple of calf crops out of, and I had first hand information that a bull was an easy calver. I might try it. The only problem is you have a little Simmental in your heifers. Which isn't a bad thing. I actually like a black sim cow. My experience on a sim or char cross heifer is that many times they go ahead, and have a big calf bred to a lbw angus bull. Welcome to the boards either way. We are all trying to help, we just get a little sidetracked some times. I will be the first to tell you that the half corriente calves will be smaller at weaning. In my management style, I am more interested in getting as many heifers to their second calf as I can. I have few if any problems many years calving my heifers. [/QUOTE]
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