We do, and I wish I had more! I love each and every one; we have several half bloods and purebreds. Never had a problem with any of them. They can come big for a first calf heifer, but we never had any problems. If you are concerned, use heifer sexed semen on heifers.Bird":vool969m said:Anyone out there have any of the simmental Upgrade bull females in there herd? If so how do they turn out? And did you have a calfing issues from him? Thanks
Upgrade is an embryo himself, so you can not put much weight on the birth weight because the recipient dam has more to do with that. He will throw a big calf from a big cow, but we have never touched one and most are in the 80 to low 90 pound range.Bird":28ophw7o said:Thanks FSR, We will being using him on middle age cows. Upgrades actual bw is just a higher than we like to see, so I was just wondering if he would throw any calves with that bw?
Bird":2zratzks said:FSR, How are the dispositions of the Upgrade calves?
jd720":3ps1t4oi said:I`m glad to hear they are making good cows since we just bought a Upgrade heifer. She was out of a heifer and they used sexed semen. She is very calm has a big middle and plenty of grow to her. We plan on breeding her to One Eyed Jack and hope for a baldy heifer. I just used Upgrade on 2 cows last month that I feel needed the extra growth.
Fire Sweep Ranch":3myw2ktv said:By the way, this fall we weighed yearling weights for the heifers, and the Upgrades were far superior to the others. Both Upgrade heifers were right at the thousand pound mark. Meaty, and big bones. Everyone that walks our pasture picks out the two Upgrades first, and want to buy them. We keep those for ourselves, since we know how great they are in production!
Stocker Steve":2l22706l said:Fire Sweep Ranch":2l22706l said:By the way, this fall we weighed yearling weights for the heifers, and the Upgrades were far superior to the others. Both Upgrade heifers were right at the thousand pound mark. Meaty, and big bones. Everyone that walks our pasture picks out the two Upgrades first, and want to buy them. We keep those for ourselves, since we know how great they are in production!
What do you think the mature weights will be?
Stocker Steve":1jtg5u4n said:Upgrade is known as a fix everything bull, but I have seen some poor feet in his daughters.
I would look for calving ease and good feet. I can check on some bulls if you have a breed selected?