My official plug for I-80

I'm still at school and just got a message that an ex show heifer of mine calved out a beagle sized heifer calf... 9 days late. If there was ever a cow to have calving trouble it was this one and we knew it. We held her over to calve at 3, she didn't breed. we bred her to I-80 last may and she calved today. She's thicker than any steer I've ever had and is small. We call her porky. She's a sunseeker x taz. pics later

So the calf (i80) is around 30-40 pounds but completely fine. rocket front end and heavy boned. I don't know the dams BW but she is a sunseeker so... We will be using I-80 again.

Zach said:

So the calf (i80) is around 25 pounds but completely fine. rocket front end and heavy boned. I don't know the dams BW but she is a sunseeker so... We will be using I-80 again.

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That's really small!  I definitely want to see a pic of that one!

Zach said:

So the calf (i80) is around 25 pounds but completely fine. rocket front end and heavy boned. I don't know the dams BW but she is a sunseeker so... We will be using I-80 again.

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Did you weigh this calf or are you just guessing the weight? I am all about calving ease, but it is definitely not a positive in my book to have a 25 lb calf.

I'm wondering about this. I'd rather pull a 100 pound calf than have a 25 pound pud. Are you sure you got the due date right? ???

I don't know about a 25lb calf.  We just had a 60lb Tiny Tim yesterday.  I believe I would rather stay with 60lb weights.

Sounds like a premature. Was she bull exposed? I've never even had a twin weigh less than 50 lbs and that was pretty small.

I'm going to go on record and say that considering this poster's history, he's pulling one on you guys.

Zach said:

So the calf (i80) is around 25 pounds but completely fine. rocket front end and heavy boned. I don't know the dams BW but she is a sunseeker so... We will be using I-80 again.

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You produced a dwarf and you're excited about it? Really? 25 lbs. is not possible any other way.

Gotta be a joke.

A heavy boned 25 lb calf??  Was it born without a mid-section???  (lol)

You guys can sit here and guess all day. I didn't weigh it but Im guessing its around 25-40 lbs. its really small and is completely fine. I have seen other calves as small as this one back when we had a Chi bull on an angus cow and itturned out fine. There is no way it is from any other sire. We did two rounds of AI then turned the bull out. We are still calving round 1 babies.

@Jeff, I have never pulled a fast one on anybody around here. My brother (LUKE) will back me up on this calf.
Here is a picture of it and me. for reference, I'm 6'0. there are a few other pics on my FB

What's the point of changing your original post when you are quoted twice directly below it?

I guess you weren’t joking or pulling a fast one but please let me clarify my assumption…

I did not say that because you trick people a lot, I said that because I thought you knew better than what you posted.  I assumed you knew too much to claim the calf was 25-lbs and heavy boned because you have posted enough to display a level of competence that would prevent a person from actually claiming such a thing.  What you claimed was so preposterous that I assumed you were kidding and wouldn’t actually make such a claim seriously.

My mistake.  Sorry.

fair enough 

I've weighed a 36-lb calf before.  It was smaller than that and it didn't look the slightest bit healthy like that calf does.  After weighing that one calf I don't see how a calf can have any sort of substance to it and be below 40.

25-lbs is a dead fetus on the ground.

When its about four months old you can take it to the sale barn and it'll bring good money in the newborn pen   Unfortunately, been there and done that.

We had a dwarf born last year to an old cow that had an incredible will to live.  It was born during a snow storm.  I don't know how it didn't freeze to death.  It had to hold its head straight up and could just barely reach to suck.  I think it made it to about 200 lbs by the time it was six months old and got hauled to the sale barn with a group of other "young" calves.

I'm sure I-80 will probably turn out to be a solid bull, but this isn't a + mark on his record.  More the momma's fault than his.  But you got that first calf out alive with her ok and that is all that matters.  See what she does next time.  I'd go easy on her the second time around because that calf didn't do much for spreading her out so to speak.

I'll take 40 pounders all day if they are as good and lively as this one. I have had dwarf calves before and this is no dwarf. The mother is a small sized cow and I believe I-80 is also a small bull. I'll keep you guys updated on this one.

Just had to cut a 100 pound bull calf out of a heifer, too big of a calf. It was 10 days early too....