Gib Yardley has a Maine bull that I believe he bought from Buck Cattle. I think the bull's name is Cowboy. I saw in their sale catalog last fall that Cowboy's calves weaned off just as big as his simmis and Angus. I'd give him a call to see how Cowboys daughters are doing in production.
Thank you for the reply. I'm curious because I own a 2007 model high % maine cow. Her heifer calves make good club calf mommas but her steers are just average. Being a 2007 model, we'd like to get as many heifers out of her before she is done. Yes we have considered flushing her but we...
We're sitting around waiting for our recip to calve. She's due March 2nd based off 285 days and including the 7 days in the donor cow. We flushed the purebred maine intense Plus cow to sexed Whizard semen. The problem is the recip just isn't showing that she should calve in 3 or 4 days. The...
I-80 or some sons (Not I-67 though Lautner Farms will tell you that he isn't calving ease), Comfort Zone, Mercedes Benz. Plus the calf would be registerable Maine. Personally, I would bred her to a CE Angus bull for her first calf.
What is he working best on? What is he doing to frame size? I like the bull, I am just trying to figure out what is best to use him on besides just calving ease.
It cost us somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 for 5ml of sexed Whizard semen. I'd have to go look at my records the embryologist wanted the 5ml split into two straws of 2.5ml. He put the first straw in and the 2nd I believe about 12 hours later. You could get 2.5ml of sexed and the other 2.5...