Question about Golden Child

I have a moderate frame simmi cross cow bred to Golden Child and is due on April 12th. I have heard some bad things about his calves being monsters and I am worried about calving difficulties. Does anyone have any comments about Golden Child calves?

Had a heifer out of a Golden ChildXWho Made Who... Didn't have any problems, but again the female was a who made who.. The calf weighed around 75lbs. So I hope that helps. She didn't ever really grow but she is nice heifer and no trouble here. Again, this is just one calf out of him.

Had a Golden Child heifer about 3 days ago on the cows due date.  The calf weighed 88 lbs.  Decent heifer, good profile , good hair , stout enough for a heifer , but a little fine boned for my liking, maybe that is the Angus coming through.  Cows calves usually weigh in the 85-95 pound range so this was was pretty average for her.

I've had around a dozen Golden Child calves out of crossbred cows - many were simi crosses.  Never had a difficult birth at all.  I imagine your fine unless you've fed that cow like a pet.  We've had really good heifers out of him, but never the oustanding steer. 

That is some good new that I was looking to hear! No I have not fed her anything special. She is on a very limited diet do to the serious drought in south texas.

I appreciate all the responses.

There's not too many fat cows running around anywhere in Texas right now is there!  We need a collective state-wide rain dance.

chambero said:

There's not too many fat cows running around anywhere in Texas right now is there!  We need a collective state-wide rain dance.

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Looks pretty green in north texas!!! Its brown in SA

Not in my part (near Wichita Falls).  Our wheat fields don't have much but dirt.  But I'd heard yall are way past critical down south.  We still have dead winter grass for filler from rains in August and September.

chambero said:

Not in my part (near Wichita Falls).  Our wheat fields don't have much but dirt.  But I'd heard yall are way past critical down south.  We still have dead winter grass for filler from rains in August and September.

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Yes sir it is very very bad. Almost out of hay. Good thing that 07 was a great year for making hay or we would be screwed.

It is really dry here in Kaufman, TX. Some of our tanks are dried up. It usually only happens  in August.

We have a Golden Child heifer that we kept last year. She is bred to an easy calving Angus bull for April. When she was born she weighed all of 75 lbs. She is a really nice heifer, I'm glad we kept her.
We have a Golden Child calf due March 8th. I'll let you know when it's born how big this one is.

lowann said:

We have a Golden Child heifer that we kept last year. She is bred to an easy calving Angus bull for April. When she was born she weighed all of 75 lbs. She is a really nice heifer, I'm glad we kept her.
We have a Golden Child calf due March 8th. I'll let you know when it's born how big this one is.

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Did she ever calve? What did it turn out like? Size?

Here's a Golden Child we're showing now.  He's out of a Meyer 734 x Pistol Pete cow, born late October '07.  He was Reserve Grand 3 times (out of 4 times out) last summer/fall, and we left him home all winter hoping he'd grow more.  This pic is from our county where he ended up 3rd in class 'cause I weighed him full hoping to make him "big enough".  He weighed 1225 and showed against steers pulled back from 1300, so he looked pretty small in class - maybe I'll learn one of these days... (he will be a lightweight at OKC)

I do think most Golden Child's are a little bigger framed than this one, but that's all this one needs.

DLD said:

Here's a Golden Child we're showing now.  He's out of a Meyer 734 x Pistol Pete cow, born late October '07.  He was Reserve Grand 3 times (out of 4 times out) last summer/fall, and we left him home all winter hoping he'd grow more.  This pic is from our county where he ended up 3rd in class 'cause I weighed him full hoping to make him "big enough".  He weighed 1225 and showed against steers pulled back from 1300, so he looked pretty small in class - maybe I'll learn one of these days... (he will be a lightweight at OKC)

I do think most Golden Child's are a little bigger framed than this one, but that's all this one needs.

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Nice Calf! Hope mine turns out like that one!

How did he get along at the city???

Thanks for asking.

LOL... Well, first of all I should learn not to say I will do something - especially not on a public forum.  I ended up turning him in at 1230, hoping to land in class 3 (in the cross division),  thinking that was prob'ly the smallest class that might still have a shot at a sale slot... he ended up in class 5, and was a good 3 inches shorter than anything else in the class, and decided to act like a complete idiot, too - he ended up 6th.  He might've placed higher in a lighter class, but he'd never be the kind Ward likes - too small framed and quick, and not cool enough fronted.

Oh well.  Our Hereford was 2nd, at least.

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lowann said:

We have a Golden Child heifer that we kept last year. She is bred to an easy calving Angus bull for April. When she was born she weighed all of 75 lbs. She is a really nice heifer, I'm glad we kept her.
We have a Golden Child calf due March 8th. I'll let you know when it's born how big this one is.

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Did she ever calve? What did it turn out like? Size?

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She had her calf last evening. Bull calf 100+ lbs. We never expected it to be this big. We had to pull it. She is a big framed cow.
He looks really good. Time will tell.

lowann said:

keduhpn said:

lowann said:

We have a Golden Child heifer that we kept last year. She is bred to an easy calving Angus bull for April. When she was born she weighed all of 75 lbs. She is a really nice heifer, I'm glad we kept her.
We have a Golden Child calf due March 8th. I'll let you know when it's born how big this one is.

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Did she ever calve? What did it turn out like? Size?

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She had her calf last evening. Bull calf 100+ lbs. We never expected it to be this big. We had to pull it. She is a big framed cow.
He looks really good. Time will tell.

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Calf died this morning. Not sure what happened. We never could get him to nurse. He would a little from a bottle, but would not nurse from his Momma. I think he had something genetic going on. You could just tell from looking at him after a day, something wasn't right.
It's a shame. This calf's Mother has really showy babies.

Had two heatwave sons in my tank....long decision but i ended up using I Am Legend hope it works out it took me forever to decide between him and golden child