Favorite Calf!

The favorite cow topic was a pretty big hit. So here we go with a calf one. Picture your favorite calf/ves that you have raised or owned!

First one is a % simmy calf we had this year that is going to be a good one.
Second is my sunseeker show heifer from this year.

Raised this Troubadour x Foreplay ET calf

This one tops my list.

I don't know how far of a strech this is for the post. This is my favorite female we bred. Cyclone Trace bought her as a embryo from us for $500 and sold her for $20,000. Not a bad profit margin. Her mom was a great cow that I have posted pics of on here before. Another favorite of mine is Sue's Likeness. We bought her as a pregnancy from B-Good and Verl bought her from us the second she hit the ground. Though she wasn't the greatest donor it was still pretty cool at the time to be able to say you had part of a Milestone donor.

The first picture is Kate in the showring; she did very well, winning several shows in the Maine-Anjou division.  

The bottom picture is of Kate as a cow; it appears as though she has matured quite nicely.

It is too bad that GCC Cowboy Cut is a PHAC; we really liked his progeny and would have used him more.

We were fortunate to have Kate born at our place; at the time, she was owned with Dave Waker and Allen Zacharius.

This is one of my favorite calves that we've ever raised...pictured at about 16 months old and as a calf.  She's a Steel Force out of our Independence donor cow.  We raised her to weaning and our partners on the donor (WRS on this board...) developed her from weaning....She's a beauty....

GS/WRS Steelin' Looks X40

We have had a few that we liked but there are just those ones that are special. JKC Princess 20W was my oldest son's heifer that we had great success showing. Now she has gone on to become a stellar cow. She has simply done everything from showing to breeding to calving, perfectly. She currently is being flushed and I am sure she will do fine at that as well. I am so impressed with her udder and milk quality (and everything else) that I will be preserving her cell lines with the thought of cloning her in the future. (Shameless Plug: We are offering a choice of embryo's from these flushes at the Mulberry Mayhem Sale run by our friend Road Warrior of Red Cow Relocators www.redcowrelocators.com)

The pictures are one year apart taken at the Tulsa State Fair. <alien>

I'm fairly new to the cattle industry, but my heifer is by far my favorite calf I've had.
She's a Heat Wave out of a WMW x commerical angus cow. She's my first heifer and she's bred to Ali 2
for an April calf. I showed her at the county fair and she got second in her class and
went on to the championship heifer drive.




January 2010


August 2011, just got home from the breeders.
I'll get a better picture up when I can.

Boy picking a favourite calf is harder than favourite cow I think... For us it would have to be our oldest son's first 4-H steer. When he was born he was 70 lbs out of one of our uglier but really good cows. (the ones your like to hide behind the barn when people come to visit) The cow is  quite small, but long.  When "Tuck" was born he was a little fuzz ball. He really caught our attention in the pasture during the summer and by the end of summer he was one of the favourites. Our son really liked him and chose him above the one I had picked out. We figured he would make a good project for an 8 year because he wouldn't get overly big and his dam is a quiet cow. His finish weight was 1260 lbs and he end up winning Reserve Grand Champion at the local 4-H Competition. He also was really quiet steer and our son could do anything with him.  I don't think we'll get that lucky again!

This is mine ! I have wanted a good looking red baldy out of two black parents for quite a while. Purebred Simmental , with just the right amount of white ! Old school breeding of G&L Avalanche x Drake Elvira x Eliingson Blackperfector.

this is a walks alone X Hannibal/Double Stuff we raised this year. probably by far my most fav calf I've seen this year.

This one is dear to my heart...lost her 3 weeks after having her first calf (twisted gut).  She was a purebred Simmental ET calf that we raised and went on to win her division at the American Royal and the North American.  

LOL , a lot of whats pictured on this thread looks to be a little older then a " CALF " !!!

This calf for now is proably my favorite ,we called him Gunsmoke an he was later sold twice an ended up being called MUDDY WATER an have some very marketable
calves ,......

Our favorite calf was always the lead of our Show String.  Pictured is our first Simmental heifer, Missys Blaze, at her first show at 6 months.  We purchased her from Tim Burke(1994) through Tad Kite.  She was a calf ahead of her time according to a few Judges, as not resembling a Simmental; too clean in the neck, too short, and too thick.  She still won several shows.  The second heifer is Blaze's first calf, sired by Meyer 734, MCA Seama (1998).  This girl was a lot to handle after a strong wind incedent at the Tulsa State fair.  We  sold her to the Duncan family who exhibited her to Champion Cow/Calf pair, and eventually raised a Ft. Worth champion out of one of her daughters.