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Post by highgrit on Jul 14, 2019 6:18:08 GMT -6
The people I bought bulls from for years main business was retaining ownership on their calves. They shot for 1/4 simm 3/4 angus going to the feedlot. They kept back a few of their best bull calves to sell as bulls. Over the years I bought a lot of their cross bred bulls. Turned them out with saleyard cows of assorted breeding. They made calves that mashed down the scale. I had 4 years in a row that February born steer calves weaned in late September averaged over 700 pounds. And they didn't cost me what a bull sale bull would have. That's a good bull of choice for your area. If I was north of the Mason Dixon I'd run SimAngus bulls. What I have found is we just don't have the climate or grass quality for Simmental cattle to produce without baby sitting them.
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Post by greybeard on Jul 14, 2019 12:28:12 GMT -6
I had a sim/char bull for a number of years and he worked real good here, on both chars and beefmasters. His sire was the old continental type simmental and dam was purebred char cow. Most of his calves out of the char cows were mostly white with some creams, and most calves from the beefmaster cows were smokies, and others were red. Everything was terminal..kept no calves as replacements. Maybe he was an exception, but he was the most docile bull I ever had, never missed a cow and calves were 75-85 lbs and grew off good. All did good on straight bahia grass, and were hustlers in drought and winter, getting by on whatever was available. The only bad/good (depending how you looked at it) thing about him was no non-electrified fence would hold him if a cow was in heat. Wouldn't work in most places but he worked for me. Got down in some mud one evening getting some water, spent the night there with his hind qtrs in 15 deg temps and I found him there the next day but never could get him back up on his feet for very long.
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Post by highgrit on Jul 14, 2019 13:55:37 GMT -6
I had a sim/char bull for a number of years and he worked real good here, on both chars and beefmasters. His sire was the old continental type simmental and dam was purebred char cow. Most of his calves out of the char cows were mostly white with some creams, and most calves from the beefmaster cows were smokies, and others were red. Everything was terminal..kept no calves as replacements. Maybe he was an exception, but he was the most docile bull I ever had, never missed a cow and calves were 75-85 lbs and grew off good. All did good on straight bahia grass, and were hustlers in drought and winter, getting by on whatever was available. The only bad/good (depending how you looked at it) thing about him was no non-electrified fence would hold him if a cow was in heat. Wouldn't work in most places but he worked for me. Got down in some mud one evening getting some water, spent the night there with his hind qtrs in 15 deg temps and I found him there the next day but never could get him back up on his feet for very long. That sounds real familiar. Our Simmental bull got bogged down twice and pulled a shoulder muscle both times. After the second time we sold him 2275 lbs and brought $1.18....those were the days.
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